ARTIST STATEMENT
My images are a study of light and form inhabiting a place between the familiar and the abstract. My intention is to entice the viewer to go beyond the surface and the recognizable. I am inspired by natural phenomena and the forces of nature. Color and pattern operate as metaphors for natural rhythms and I distill these elements to their common rhythmic denominators, providing a point of departure for the contemplation of our relationship to nature and creation.
Combining natural forms and pattern with fractal geometry has been a generative impulse for my process. My art doesn’t represent the complicated mathematics developed by Benoit Mandelbrot but the spirit of it. Fractal geometry is in all natural systems. For example, the branching sequence of trees and river deltas is not dissimilar to that of the human nervous system. Throughout ancient history, patterning and ornamentation of various textiles and ceramics have depicted common themes in cultures that had not intermingled. Possibly there is a relationship between these repeated structures, natural patterns, and the mind’s eye. Perhaps it stems somehow from the BIG BANG we are all descendant from, and, therefore, we all have a common geometry. By applying this non-Euclidian structure as a basis to describe my nature, it is my hope that the viewer will have an intuitive recognition or response.
Photo Credit: Kerry Kehoe
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Ms. Lynch received her MFA in printmaking from Hunter College in New York City and BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute. Owner and master printmaker of Lynch Pin Press, founded in 1999, she has collaborated with many regional and nationally known artists and holds regular workshops. Lynch is a committed artist and continues her personal artistic pursuit in both printmaking and painting. She has been the master printer for Bob Blackburn's Printmaking Workshop in NYC and The Printmaking Center for Safe and Non-Toxic Printmaking at the College of Santa Fe.
Her teaching experience spans 25 years between positions at the College of Santa Fe, The University of New Mexico, American Institute of Indian Arts, and currently Santa Fe Community College.
Highly versed in various mediums of printmaking, including etching, lithography, woodcut, and monotype, her own work specializes in photopolymer viscosity etching. Trained in traditional methods, she has since investigated new technologies with a focus on safe and non-toxic processes and materials. Her approach to teaching stems from her professional work in the field; beginning with technique, then advancing to aesthetic process and intuition.
Ms. Lynch is an active painter and printmaker and exhibits regularly. Currently she is included in Collaborations, an extensive print show focusing on the collaborative artist/printer relationship. The show will focus on six master printmakers and their presses, and will be held at the Albuquerque Museum in February 2022.
