KATHRYN LYNCH
KATHRYN LYNCH SHIFTING SCENES
62 SOUTH GLENWOOD STREET JACKSON HOLE WY 83001 TEL 307 733 0555 TAYLOE PIGGOTTGALLERY.COM
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Above the couch in our living room hangs a large brown canvas. If you walk past it quickly, you might not make out what’s there. But if you stop. If you stand back and take a moment, the image reveals itself: a river, a sky, a wall of tall buildings bearing witness. But that’s not what you will remember when you walk away. Instead, you will conjure the longing you experienced. Experience still. Late at night, as you plead to an indifferent moon. Maybe that’s Kathryn’s purpose, to allow us, through her art, to forget words for a little while. To stand eyes wide, mouth slightly open, and notice that there, in what first appears to be deep blue nothingness, is a lighthouse. Feel the sand beneath your feet. Hear the call of seagull. It’s okay to miss him. The you that you were. Kite in hand. The mom that she was. Just to the side. Always nearby. Kathryn’s art falls in the space between sentences. White: The sound of snowfall. A still world. Absent of dirt. Which is equally important as the words on the page. Grey: A cumbersome wind on water. Angry yet unassuming. Because it is the absence with which our thoughts linger. Green: A promise. Tentative perhaps. But real. As promises almost always are. So take your time as you explore this body of work. Kathryn’s paintings are a slow, tranquil beauty. Quiet but relentless. Lasting. Human.
by Amy Koppelman
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I paint the experience of passing by something, rather than the thing itself. - Kathryn Lynch
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Queen Mary in Blue, 2014, oil on canvas, 48 x 60 inches
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Queen Mary out the Window, 2015, oil on board, 14 x 14 inches
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Queen Mary in Fog, 2014, oil on canvas, 48 x 60 inches
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Queen Mary in the Night, 2015, oil on canvas, 48 x 60 inches
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Bricks and Stones, 2015, oil on board, 8 x 10 inches
Pioneer Works, 2015, oil on board, 9 x 12 inches
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Winter out the Window, 2015, oil on board, 14 x 14 inches
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Fall out the Window, 2014, oil on board, 14 x 14 inches
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Gowanus View, 2015, oil on board, 24 x 12 inches
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Red Car, 2015, oil on board, 10 x 8 inches
Street, 2015, oil on board, 10 x 8 inches
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Blossoms, 2015, oil on canvas, 14 x 11 inches
Winter, 2015, oil on board, 16 x 12 inches
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Spring, 2015, oil on board, 10 x 8 inches
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Moon, 2014, oil on canvas, 60 x 48 inches
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Sun, 2015, oil on canvas, 60 x 48 inches
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Sun Setting on River, 2015, oil on canvas, 48 x 60 inches
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Two Boats, 2015, oil on board, 20 x 24 inches
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A Boat Called Ryder, 2010-15, oil on canvas, 48 x 84 inches
KATHRYN LYNCH
RESUME EDUCATION 1983 1991 1990
William Smith College, Geneva, NY Skowhegan, Skowhegan, ME MFA University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
2004
Painting the Town, Victoria Munroe Fine Art, Boston, MA
2002
Alysia Duckler Gallery, Portland, OR
1996
Charles Cowles, Project Room, New York, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2016
Shifting Scenes, Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson, WY Sears-Peyton Gallery, New York, NY
2015
Up at Night, Senaspace, New York, NY Maine, Sears-Peyton Gallery, New York, NY
2014
Tug Tug, Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson, WY Artist Talk, Sears-Peyton Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2013 2012
A Silent Language, Sears-Peyton Gallery, New York, NY la vie en tugboat, Senaspace, New York, NY The Little Gallery, Sharon Springs, NY
2011
River Tugs, Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson, WY
2010
Choppy Waters, Sears-Peyton Gallery, New York, NY
2009
Her Days and Nights, Sears-Peyton Gallery, New York, NY ARC LLC Fine Art, Fairfield, CT
2008
Her Days and Nights, Sears-Peyton Gallery, New York, NY
2007
Nina Freudenheim, Inc., Buffalo, NY
2005
Paintings: The City, Alysia Duckler Gallery, Portland, OR
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Dogs, Sears-Peyton Gallery, New York, NY
2015
City Lives, Shirley Fiterman Center, curated by Michael Klein, New York, NY Sara Nightingale Gallery, Watermill, NY Making History, Storefront Ten Eyck Gallery, Bushwick, NY
2014
Metro Art Fair, Michael Klein Arts, New York, NY Animalia, Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, CT
2013
Southampton Art Fair, Michael Klein Arts, Southampton, NY Miami Art Fair, Landfall Press, Miami, FL Red Dot Fair, Miami, FL
2012
Aspects of a New Realism, Arthur Roger Gallery, curated by Michael Klein, New Orleans, LA
2011
Black and White, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY Incongruent Sum, 111 Leroy St., New York, NY Super Nature, 4 North Gallery, Southampton, NY Pulse Art Fair, Sears-Peyton Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Summer Group Show, Sears-Peyton Gallery, New York, NY
2010
Bedlam, Bank Iran, 111 Leroy Street, New York, NY Pretty Vacant, Brooklyn Art Studios and Yashar Gallery, Gowanus, NY The Big Show, Marsden Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY Johnnie Boden, Sag Harbor, NY
Sweetness & Light and Where There’s Smoke, U. Mass Amherst Fine Arts Center, Hampden Gallery, Amherst, MA
2008
The Big Apple, Ken Jones Jr. Fine Art, Easton, PA
2007
Nina Freudenheim, Inc., paintings selected by Nina Freudenheim, Buffalo, NY Recent History, Jan Abrams Fine Arts, works of the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s selected by Michael Klein, New York, NY
2003
New Works on Paper, Victoria Munroe Fine Art, Boston, MA
2002
Catch a Fish, Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, East Hampton, NY ‘Artists to Artists’ A Decade of the Space Program, Ace Gallery, New York, NY
2001
Beyond the Mountains, the Contemporary American Landscape, Curated by Michael Klein traveled to Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI Polk Art Museum, Lakeland, FL Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, TN Lyman Allyn Museum of Art at Connecticut College, New London, CT
2000
New Talent, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
1999
Emerging Artists, Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, East Hampton, NY 24/7, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
1996
Project Room, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY Of Land and Sea, Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
New Talent, New Ideas, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
1995
Five Artists over Five Decades, William Smith College, Geneva, NY New Work, Black & Greenberg Gallery, New York, NY New Painting, Cherry Stone Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
1993
Five Women Painters, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY Paterson Museum, Paterson, NJ
1992
New Generation Artists, Cherry Stone Gallery, Wellfleet, MA New Faces-New Energy, Frick Gallery, Belfast, ME 56th National Midyear Exhibition, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH Thirty-Third Juried Exhibition, Parrish Art Museum, New York, NY
1991
Fifteenth Annual Small Works, 80 Washington Square East Gallery, New York, NY
1990
Artists of West Philadelphia, Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA Inhabited Places, University City Arts League Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
GRANTS 2009 1997 1995 1994 1993
Spain Residency, October 2009, Joya: arte & eclologia: Los Gázquez Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation, New York, NY The Millay Colony, Austerlitz, NY The Vermont Center, Johnson, VT
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2009
Featured Artist, Elle Decor Magazine, June 2009.
2015
Turcihin, Olya, Kathryn Lynch: Bright Lights, Illuminated New York City, Arte Fuse, November 23, 2015. Segal, Mark, An Artist at the Mercy of Her Subjects, The East Hampton Star, May 14, 2015.
2007
Kathryn Lynch At Nina Freudenheim, Buffalo Rising Magazine, Buffalo, NY 2007.
2004
McQuaid, Cate, Painting the Town, The Boston Globe, May 28, 2004.
2014
Strasnick, Stephanie, Kathryn Lynch, Sears-Peyton Gallery, Art News Reviews: New York, February 2014. Bunting, Chris, 3 must-attend NYC art and antique fairs, New York Post, January 22, 2014. Sullivan, Andrew, The Birth of Creativity, The Dish, December 29, 2013. Dabkowski, Colin, Echoes of Kathryn Lynch on a Philly Street, The Gusto Blog, The Buffalo News, January 21, 2014. Kathryn Lynch: Interview, Painter’s Table via Guernica Magazine, January 2014.
2000
Bookhardt, D. Eric, The Mountain Within, Gambit Weekly, Inside Art, New Orleans, LA., February 2000.
1999
Braff, Phyllis, Emerging Artists, New York Times, L.I., June 6, 1999. Braff, Phyllis, Up-to-Date Ideas From Emerging Talents, New York Times, L.I., May 2, 1999.
1992
Lipson, Karin, Jury’s Verdict, Quantity, Quality, News Day, May 8, 1992. Braff, Phyllis, Testimony to Magic of Gifted Installation, New York Times, L.I., May 24, 1992.
2013
Rae, Haniya, Paint and Die Happy, Guernica Magazine, December 16, 2013. Lee, Jonathan, Kathryn Lynch’s Flower Paintings, New American Paintings, December 11, 2013. Turcihin, Olya, Tugboats To My Heart, Arte Fuse, November 18, 2013.
1990
Rice, Robin, West Philly Artists Paint the Bride, University City Review, Philadelphia, PA, April 1990.
2012
Goodman, Wendy, First Look: The Artist Who Haunts A Tribeca Warehouse, Sears-Peyton Gallery, New York Magazine, January 25, 2012.
2011
Niner, Katy, Artists Subsume Imagery within Layers of Materials, Jackson Hole News and Guide, Arts, December, 2011. Raymond, J. Tim, Black & White at Nina Freudenheim Gallery, ArtVoice, Buffalo, NY.
2008
Green, Penelope, A Restless Couple at Rest, The New York Times, Home & Garden, May 29, 2008.
CORPORATE AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS University of California Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA Microsoft, Redmond, WA Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, NJ Johnson & Johnson, Princeton, NJ Progressive Corporation, Cleveland, OH Pfizer, New York, NY Millenium Art Collection, Ritz Carlton, Battery Park City, NY Wellington Management, Boston, MA The Venetian Resort, Macau, China Comcast, Philadelphia, PA Blank Rome, LLP, New York, NY KPMG, New York, NY Fidelity Investment, Boston, MA
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Published on the occasion of the exhibition
KATHRYN LYNCH
SHIFTING SCENES
5 February – 25 March 2016
Tayloe Piggott Gallery 62 South Glenwood Street Jackson, Wyoming 83001 Tel 307 733 0555 tayloepiggottgallery.com
Publication © 2015 Tayloe Piggott Gallery / Kathryn Lynch All rights reserved Essay © 2015 Amy Koppelman Photography of the art by John Berens Studio image and portrait by Alen MacWeeney Catalogue designed by Tayloe Piggott Gallery
Front Cover: Queen Mary out the Window, 2015, oil on board, 14 x 14 inches