Lindsay Ponce is a contemporary portrait artist whose work is irreverently whimsical.

With surprising depth of truth and history, her work explores the hidden histories behind icons and the cost of romantic love. Using bold symbolism, pop culture references, and vibrant visual language, her work draws viewers in and invites them to look deeper.

Based in McKinney, Texas, and represented by LX Artworks Gallery, Lindsay paints out of her studio and gallery inside a historic cotton mill. Her paintings are layered in meaning: posture, clothing, color, and gaze are all part of a personal symbolic language guided by months of research, intuition, and emotional memory.

Lindsay's two main bodies of work, Rebel Founder Icon and Lucha & Love, each tell deeply intimate and culturally resonant stories.

In Rebel Founder Icon, historical figures are reimagined through modern aesthetics and layered symbolism. Ponce paints them after she has studied them for weeks - not just for their accomplishments, but for their childhoods, wounds, and inner lives. Each piece is framed in ornate gold — a nod to the tradition of portraiture — while playfully subverting it with millennial wit and whimsy.

Each portrait in this series is paired with a "Hidden History" document, which outlines the symbols and stories embedded in the portrait. With most pieces already in private collections, this highly sought-after series combines emotional depth and bold pop symbolism.

In Lucha & Love, she paints masked individuals at various stages of romantic relationships, using Mexican lucha libre masks as a metaphor of the inherent risk of injury that comes with entering the ring of love. Many works in the series are autobiographical, rooted in her own marriage, divorce, and rebirth as a woman accepting that to love is to wrestle.

 Her work is sensual, cinematic, and emotionally layered. While Ponce’s stylistic choices are bright in color and visually whimsical each piece is rooted in honesty, power, and presence.