DEREK LYNCH

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EDUCATION

1975                                                    Art Students League, New York, NY

1976 - 1981                                         School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

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EXHIBITIONS

One Person

2010                                  SFMOMA Caffe Museo, 151 Third Street

2007                                   501 Beale, San Francisco, CA

2007                                   300 Third, San Francisco, CA

2007                  'Oceans and Forests' Spring OS, Hunters Point Shipyard, SF, CA

2003                                                    Gallery at Thoreau, The Presidio of San Francisco, CA

2002                                                    Sharon Park Gallery, Menlo Park, CA

2000                                                    Gallery Ovissi, Emeryville, CA

1993                                                    South Eighth Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

1985                                                    Laight Street Gallery, Tribeca, NY

1981                                                    First National Bank, Clinton, NJ

1977 - 1981                                         School of Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY

Group

2007              SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2007               Visual Aid's Big Deal 13, SomArts Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2007             STAR Benefit Auction, San Francisco, CA

2007                    Gallery at Thoreau, The Presidio of San Francisco, CA

2007                   FUF, Arcadia, Artists Celebrate Trees San Francisco, CA

2005                                           Julie Nester Gallery,Park City, UT

2005                                           FUF, Arcadia, Artists Celebrate Trees San Francisco, CA

2000-2002                                           Sharon Park Gallery, Menlo Park, CA

2000                                                    Hang Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2000                                                    Tails of the City, microsoftSF, Sony Metreon, San Francisco, CA

1999                                                    Gallery Ovissi, Emeryville, CA

1999                                                    Four Walls, Post Postcard 4, San Francisco, CA

1998                                                    Four Walls, Post Postcard III, San Francisco, CA

1997                                                    Carmichael Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1985                                                    Gruenebaum Gallery, East 57th Street, NY

1985                                                    Clinton Art Center , NJ

1982                                                    Sara Renchler Gallery, Soho, NY

1982                                                    Nine-Man Invitational, 9 Styles, Tribeca, NY

1981 - 1985                                         Laight Street Gallery, Tribeca, NY

1980                                                    P.S. 1, Long Island City, NY

1980                                                    Trenton Art Museum, NJ

1980                                                    National Arts Club , Gramercy Park, NY

GRANTS/AWARDS

1986                                                    Artist Space Grant

1980                                                    Mary de Gauge Memorial Fund          

1977                                                    School of Visual Arts Best Student Award

1976                                                    School of Visual Arts Full Scholarship

1975                                                    Scholastic Gold Key Award

REVIEWS/PUBLICATIONS

2003                                                    Art of Northern California, Alcove Books

1982                                                    The New York Times Friday Art Review by Grace Glueck

1980                                                    Artery, Passaic College magazine, NJ

1972 - 1978                                         Sunday Star Ledger News, NJ

1975 - 1977                                         Hunterdon Democrat, NJ

CORPORATE COLLECTIONS       

2002                                                    Hewlett Packard Collection

2000                                                    Hyatt Seattle

2000                                                    SF Interactive, San Francisco, CA

2000                                                    Inhale, San Carlos, CA

2000                                                    Deloitte Consulting, Rancho Cordova, CA

1999                                                    Johnson & Johnson/Alza Pharmaceutical Corp., Mountain View, CA

1999                                                    Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Brokerage Co., NY

Statement

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.