RENE LYNCH
Guardian, 2009. Color lithograph. Edition of 40. 20.5 x 15 in.
Guardian, 2009. Color lithograph. Edition of 40. 20.5 x 15 in.
Guardian, 2009. Color lithograph. Edition of 40. 20.5 x 15 in.
Guardian, 2009. Color lithograph. Edition of 40. 20.5 x 15 in.
In this series of four portraits, the artist \ Rene Lynch presents four girls, each holding an animal in a different gesture. The expressions on the girls’ faces carry a certain weight, either of apprehension, protection, affection, or humor, possibly a mix of all of these. The prints are delicate renderings in litho crayon printed from lithographic stone, which can capture all of the nuances of the artist’s delicate tonalities.
Lynch’s subject here and in her paintings is often girls on the cusp of adulthood. They appear innocent yet also empowered and self-aware. The animals accompanying them seem to offer comfort, but also responsibility, foreshadowing their next few years of adolescence.
As a set of four, these prints offer a chance to explore a range emotion and the mastery of portraiture in drawing for which the artist is well known.
B. DECATUR, IL
Rene Lynch has been included in numerous gallery and museum exhibitions both nationally and internationally. Recent solo exhibitions include Dreaming at Galerie Kaysser in Munich Germany, Oct, 2008, Secrets at Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, March 2008, and Wonderland and the Gaze at Jenkins Johnson Gallery’s NYC Chelsea gallery, August 2007. She presented a solo at HPGRP Gallery in Tokyo, 2007 and NYC, 2007 and the solo of the complete Gaze Series at Galerie Kunstlade Museum, Zittau, Germany. Recent notable group shows in galleries and museums, since 2006, were in Berlin, Munich, Cologne, Istanbul and Tokyo, Basel and Miami as well as NY, NJ and San Francisco. Rene Lynch’s solo show of new works will open at Jenkins Johnson NYC in Chelsea on October 15, 2009.
Lynch’s collaboration with Jungle Press Editions is a new series of her color stone lithographies, the first 4 of which will be editioned by fall, 2009. Lynch’s new catalogues are; Rene Lynch; The Gaze , 2007, in German and English including essays by ArtForum editor Nicole Rudick and German critic Cornelia Kleyboldt and Rene Lynch; Secret Life of the Forest in Japanese and English with an essay by Charlotta Kotik, Curator Emerita, Contemporary Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art, NYC, and Rene Lynch Secrets, 2008 at Jenkins Johnson. Lynch has been the recipient of several fellowships including P.S.1 Museum, twice, Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus, Germany, twice, Virginia Center for Creative Art, 4 times, the Millay Colony and others.