Kathryn Lynch: Elsewhere
On view May 26 through July 3, 2023, The Drawing Room is pleased to present an exhibition of Kathryn Lynch's recent oil paintings of the dramatic landscapes and cityscapes inspired by her walks along the Brooklyn promenade, the dunes in Sagaponack, and the trails in her new environs in the Hudson River Valley. Always on the move to capture new sensations of place, Lynch explores her terrain with sketchpad in hand to note the precise composition and quality of light of a single moment in a specific location. From sketch to lush, fully realized painting, in both small and large scale, Lynch recreates vivid impressions of place and time.
The earlier works on view capture the lively drama of the city’s edges: waterways under bridges, often lit by a virtual starry sky of lights from skyscraper windows. In the compressed composition of the F Train over Canal, tracks are interlaced with bridges and trains passing over cars above the tugboats skimming the river. In her painting BQE in Blue, Lynch immerses the night skyline in a foggy blur reflected in the river. Tugboats and ferry boats meander through and around the shorefronts of Manhattan. Framing her view of the Gowanus River through the subway car window or looking toward Manhattan through a balcony gate on the Brooklyn waterfront, Lynch captures fleeting impressionist vistas that describe the motion around Manhattan Island.
Recently Lynch has been captivated by the majestic views across the Catskill River from her new studio. Working and walking in the historic Hudson Valley preserved in the paintings by Frederick Church at Olana, Lynch visits the porch of the Thomas Cole house with her sketchpad in hand. Her expansive landscapes such as Leaving Olana invite one to walk into the painting through the meadow grasses toward the descending sun on the horizon. This immersive large-scale painting with the sensuous brushwork and silken palette enjoys a purely abstract composition, except for the unmistakable gently setting sun.
See below for full press release and selected works.
