KATHRYN LYNCH | FIELDS OF TIME

K A T H R Y N LY N C H

18 FEBRUARY — 27 MARCH 2022

K A T H R Y N LY N C H FIELDS OF TIME

TAYLOE PIGGOTT GALLERY

SUNRISE, 2021 ThinUNTITLED Man, 2020 Oil on canvas Handblown glass on limestone 60 x 72 inches 71 x 12 x 16 inches

DANDELIONS, 2021 Oil on canvas 14 x 11 inches

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DANDELION FIELD, 2020 Oil on canvas wrapped around board 60 x 48 inches

ORANGE SUN OVER MOUNTAIN, 2021 Oil on linen 53 x 48 inches

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DANDELIONS, 2020 Oil on canvas 26 x 24 inches

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SUN REFLECTED/WINTER SOLSTICE, 2021 Oil on linen 48 x 36 inches

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YELLOW, 2021 Oil on canvas 60 x 48 inches

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RED FLOWER IN MIST, 2021 Oil on board 10 x 8 inches

SUN, 2021 Oil on linen 12 x 12 inches

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UNDER THE STARS, 2021 Oil on canvas 60 x 72 inches

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HOUSE ON LAKE WITH SUN, 2021 Oil on linen 36 x 30 inches

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BLUE LAKE, 2021 Oil on linen 14 x 11 inches

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SUN BETWEEN TREES, 2021 Oil on linen 53 x 48 inches

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TWO TREES WITH ORANGE SUN, 2021 Oil on canvas board 10 x 8 inches

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STUDY FOR SUN BETWEEN TREES, 2021 Oil on linen 14 x 11 inches

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YELLOW SUN THRU TREES, 2021 Oil on canvas 14 x 11 inches

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(TOP) ORANGE FLOWER, 2021 (BOTTOM) TIGER LILY, 2021 Oil on linen 12 x 12 inches

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YELLOW FLOWER, 2021 Oil on linen 12 x 12 inches

MAN ON PHONE, 2021 Oil on canvas 12 x 9 inches

WALKING MAN, 2021 Oil on linen 14 x 10 inches

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ARTIST WALKING, 2021 Oil on canvas 14 x 11 inches

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RED FLOWER ON PICNIC TABLE, 2021 Oil on canvas 10 x 8 inches

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VIEW OUT THE WINDOW, 2019 Oil on aluminum 16 x 16 inches

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DANDELIONS ON THE BAY, 2019 Oil on aluminum 16 x 16 inches

TREES IN A FIELD, 2021 Oil on canvas board 12 x 9 inches

FIELDS OF TIME, 2021 Oil on canvas board 12 x 9 inches

PINK SUN, 2021 Oil on wood 9 x 12 inches

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FIELD WITH SETTING SUN, 2021 Oil on wood 9 x 12 inches

RedRED Tug, TUG, 20222022 Oil on Oil Linen on Linen 11 x 1114 x inches 14 inches

K A T H R Y N LY N C H FIELDS OF TIME “Paintings are alive when they’re good.

It’s got to exist and be ok to exist…”

-Lynch

W ith this solo exhibition, her fifth with Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Kathryn Lynch

performs poetic symbiosis with oil paint, her preferred, even venerated, medium.

Landscapes are rendered timeless, parsed into near symbols—a mountain represented by a naïve wiggle of misty indigo, the surface of a lake a singular, shimmery line. In paint handling, the artist is sparing, working in confident brushstrokes in thinly veiled washes thrown open by the unexpected flash of a brilliant tangerine sun. Her language is that of the quintessential human experience, lapping up the wonder of nature. Lynch here triumphantly conveys “her crowning achievement as a painter: capturing the liminal spaces that define the essence of a given place,” as written by painter-critic Patrick Neal.

The artist spends her life painting and walking, though the two are nearly indistinguishable. “I’m always painting. I paint through everything. I paint where I am,” Lynch says. Last summer, the artist received a coveted invitation to return to Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture as an alumnus (’91), which provided the inspiration for many of the paintings on view. Walking along the shores of Lake Wesserunsett, she not only retraced the footsteps of countless painters, sculptors and artists who have attended the prestigious program as alumni and faculty, Alex Katz, Diana Al-Hadid and Helen Frankenthaler among them. She also captured that unspoken, universal feeling of human-in-nature in memory and in paint.

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An aspiring New Yorker from birth despite a Philadelphia childhood, Lynch often transcribes the pulse and energy of the city into her canvases. This exhibition, however, focuses entirely on the idyllic countryside—lakes, mountains, bountiful florals—the artists rediscovered in upstate New York and rural Maine during and following the New York lockdown. The human is always implied, however allusively, be it light glimpsed through a window reflected on a lake in nighttime or in the eyes of the viewer-as-painter. We see as Lynch sees. Dandelions float unencumbered in a sea of electric chartreuse – fields of time encapsulated in paint.

Born and raised in Philadelphia, Kathryn Lynch received her undergraduate degree from William Smith College in Geneva, NY, and an MFA at the University of Pennsylvania in 1990. She was awarded the NYSCA/NYFA artist Fellow in Painting in 2018. She has been invited to Skowhegan, Yaddo, The Marie Walsh Foundation and The Vermont Studio Center. Since earning her MFA, Lynch has held solo exhibitions across the United States, participated in well over thirty group shows, and has works featured in both corporate and public collections. Some of these include Microsoft, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, and the Millennium Art Collection in the Ritz Carlton, Battery Park, in NYC. The artist lives and works between Gowanus, Brooklyn and Foreland, an artist-run campus in Catskill, New York.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition KATHRYN LYNCH FIELDS OF TIME 18 February - 27 March 2022 © 2022 All Rights Reserved 55

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