Opens November 1, 2026
Lindsay Buchman (68), Stratagems (Orange County) at HARDWARE
Still from Lindsay Buchman: Stratagems (Orange County), 2020–25, 8 minute 56 second HD video with sound.
About
Stratagems (Orange County) is a film essay by interdisciplinary artist, writer, and publisher Lindsay Buchman exploring how place shapes who we become. The work is part of Buchman’s long-term project Everything I've Ever Loved, which explores underrepresented narratives in Orange County, California through the lens of transracial adoption, social identity, land use, and the Southern California landscape.
Lindsay Buchman: Stratagems (Orange County) at HARDWARE is curated by Lighthouse Works Curator-at-Large Laurel Ptak, with the support of Community Coordinator, Claudia DeSimone and Fellowship Director, Eliza Schmidt. Exhibition guide designed by Eric Nylund. Special thanks to the entire team at Island Hardware for their ongoing support.
HARDWARE is a year-round exhibition space for film and video by contemporary artists located in the loose screw section of Island Hardware on Fishers Island. Every two months, a new moving image work appears, inviting unexpected encounters with contemporary art where the everyday rhythms, textures, and temporalities of a hardware shop frame the work. Conceived by master carpenter Dave Beckwith and curator Laurel Ptak, HARDWARE grew out of an earlier collaboration as part of the exhibition Sara Magenheimer: Ill-Gotten Gains.
Located inside Island Hardware at 741 The Gloaming on Fishers Island, HARDWARE is programmed by Lighthouse Works and open to the public during business hours, from Monday–Friday 8am–3:30pm and by appointment. For further information about the exhibition contact Nate Malinowski at [email protected] or (631) 788-7713.
Artist
Bio
Lindsay Buchman is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and publisher based in Brooklyn (NY), whose work explores image-making and writing through print and lens-based media, artist books, and installation. Recent exhibitions include the Penumbra Foundation (NY), Center for Photography at Woodstock (NY), and the Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art (CA). Her work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New York Public Library, and SFMOMA, and she has received the Lighthouse Works Fellowship, the Flaherty Fellowship, and the Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship. Her work has appeared in Hyperallergic, Lenscratch, and The Hopper Prize Journal. She has been an artist-in-residence at Light Work, CPW, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Lower East Side Printshop. Buchman holds an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and a BFA from California State University, Long Beach.
