Derek Lynch

My new work involves the creation of urban based socio-political, geographic, architectural paintings. In 2006, I began working with polymers submersed in ink pencil markers, acrylic paint, and permanent pigment. My use of these materials have become a prominent feature of these works. In my recent work, I am using photo images, dissecting fragmenting and rearranging shapes and forms derived from architecture of the bay Area-creating a sense of a new environment an abstracted new geography. I am layering polymers and permanent pigment applying to PVC and aluminum panels. The Bay Areas geographic architecturally diverse landscape led me to my current form derived from intuitive deconstruction and reconstruction, of architecture, into new fields of perspective. I have always been formally involved with nature in the Bay Area, now my obsession has grown, I feel connected to not just the nature that surrounds us but what contains us. What has been happening in the world for the last seven years globally has shaped my conception of reality and how I perceive it. I am attempting to combine these observations to create a compilation of connective awareness.

In my former work I was preoccupied by natural complex geometry, patterns and colors and forms.

Biography

The recipient of numerous artistic grants and awards, Derek Lynch’s formal study began at the Art Students League in New York. He received a full scholarship to the School of Visual Arts and was the recipient of the Best Student Award during his first year.  Lynch has exhibited in many solo and group shows from New York to San Francisco, including exhibitions at the Trenton Art Museum in New Jersey, the National Art Gallery in Gramercy Park, New York, and P.S.1 in Long Island City.  Lynch’s video art has been shown at the Castro Theater in San Francisco, BAM in Berkeley, CA, and The Kitchen in New York. His music, which he produces on his computers, is another form of his artistic expression.