A Covenant with Gravity | MFA Thesis Show | July 6-9, 2026
about the artist
Lindy Martinez Stice is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice moves between fine art and tattoo. A graduate of Westmont College, where she earned a BA in Art, Stice has divided her time between California and the island nations of the South Pacific for the past two decades.
Having learned tattooing in Tonga, she incorporates tattoo as an extension of her drawing practice, engaging skin as a site of embodied mark-making. Her work spans drawing and watercolor, examining cultural and material interactions and the intimacy of image. Organic and constructed forms recur throughout her practice as part of an evolving visual language.
Stice is currently pursuing candidacy for a Master of Fine Arts in Visual Art at Azusa Pacific University. She is the founder of Ink Sanctuary Tattoo Studio in Port Vila, Vanuatu.
Lindy Martinez Stice (b. 1979, California, USA)
Azusa Pacific University, MFA artists, Cohort 18
L to R: Stephanie Del Bosco, Melissa Davis Odneal, Debora Munoz, Tyler Hazlett, Young Ly Hong Chandra, Lindy Martinez Stice
shows & text
A Covenant with Gravity July 6 - 9, 2026. MFA thesis exhibition, Heritage Gallery @ Azusa Pacific University.
A Covenant with Gravity April 27, 2026. Thesis text: Exploring displacement, hybridity, and material agency.
Life and Death 2026 June 11, 2026 - August 11, 2026 Juried Exhibition by Gallerium / Biafarin
Monochromica issue 009 June 2026. Journal Publication.
Art Nexus 2025 - . Substack.
Convergence July 5 - 26, 2025. Sasse Museum of Art, group show.
experience
Fine Artist
Self-Employed
2022 - Present
Develops personal artistic vision and creates work in the contemporary context
Tattoo Artist
Ink Sanctuary Tattoo Studio
2022 - Present
Collaborates with clients to create custom body art
Art Educator
International School Suva
2011 - 2022
Nurtured young artists within a studio-focused, choice-based framework
