Derek Lynch

I make my new paintings using pencil, marker, carnal dacha, ink, acrylics and polymers, applied in layers to panels that are sized or stretched with a smooth-surface. I use a combination of techniques that includes printing techniques.

My recent work has been largely influenced by the growth of my young daughter Elle and our daily visits to the park playgrounds (Golden Gate, Panhandle and Julius Kan) in San Francisco. My preoccupation with the structural forms that kid’s use and the landscaping, and architecture around them has given my work new imagery.

What has been happening in the world for the last six 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.