Kathryn Lynch: Islands: recent oil paintings

On view April 16 through May 24, 2021 The Drawing Room is pleased to present Islands, new oil paintings by Kathryn Lynch. Whether inspired by the city views observed on her daily walks along the Brooklyn Park Drive promenade, or by the quiet horizons emerging from the shores of New York’s inlets and bays, Lynch approaches her paintings with an immersive and lush sensibility. She knows her vistas well and enjoys altering her memories of them back in her studio. These alterations are apparent in her quirky and dynamic sense of composition and the fresh gestural ease of her delivery. City in the Fog is a muted, gray blue view of the Brooklyn Bridge strung with lights blurred by fog. A citron taxi crosses the picture plane, headlights guiding the way. In the foreground a man walks his dog while looking at his cell phone, a valued source of light in a wet drama. In East River the patterns of ferryboat lights contrast the flow of downtown traffic headlights that swerve along the embankment of FDR drive. There is a mediaeval feeling to the pink and white cupolas crowning the stone outcroppings of the island’s bedrock.

Preserving the transparency of her gestures in swift brushwork, Lynch juxtaposes the hard contours of land against the rhythmic motion of the sea in harmonious compositions finding a poetic lyricism all her own.

 
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