L
Y N N S M A L L
•
Paintings •
I
always begin a painting wih a blank canvas and not any
preconceived idea of what it's going to look like.
I just sort of react. I can't predict it, so I let the
materials suggest the next step and then take it from there.
It's a process of letting a painting talk to you.
I want a painting to take me to a place I've never been.
—Emily
Mason: A Painting Experience
This
world is but a canvas to our imagination.
—Henry
David Thoreau
Golden Light—California
Series
Untitled,
Golden Light
California 2011
Mixed-media on Canvas
36"H
x 28"
Autumn Light II
Yaddo 2003
Mixed-media on Canvas
72"H x 96"W
Golden
Light Diptych
California 2003-04
Mixed-media on Canvas
40"H x 60"W
[40" x 30" each panel]
Golden
Light II
California 2003
Mixed-media on Canvas
42"H x 32"W
I
think
I'm beginning to learn something about it [painting].
—Pierre-Auguste
Renoir, age 78
Landsat—Earth
Series
Niagara
Landsat Earth Yaddo 1978
Mixed-media on Canvas
54"H x 72"W
New
York City and Vicinity
Landsat Earth 1979
Mixed-media on Canvas
48"H x 36"W
Pennsylvania
Dutch
Landsat Earth 1979
Mixed-media on Canvas
48"H x 36"W
Painting
is another way of keeping a diary.
—
Pablo Picasso
Earth Stains Series
Untitled
[Orange]
Earth Stains 1978
Mixed-media on Canvas
48"H x 36"W
Untitled
[Waterfall]
Earth Stains 1977
Mixed-media on Canvas
36"H x 48"W
Mexican Series
The
Offering
Cuernavaca 1974
Mixed-media on Linen
68"H x 44"W
Mexican Series
I
am not sick, I am broken…but I am happy to be alive as long as
I can paint…
—Frida Kahlo
The
Prince
Cuernavaca 1974
Mixed-media on Linen
42"H
x 34"W
Mexican Series
Works From Spain
Sensations
Nerja, Spain 1972
Earth Stains
Mixed-media on Canvas
48"H x 36"W
Earth
Stains I
Nerja, Spain 1972
Mixed-media on Canvas
30"H x 26"W
New
York University
Fallen
Rock Zone
New York 1968
Mixed-media on Canvas
60"H x 52"W
My art practices were both formal and experimental – beginning at the High School of Music and Art, then at New York University and later at the Art Student’s League. Working within abstract and semi-abstract concepts emerged early—influenced by the first and second generation of New York abstract expressionists but also by the desire to integrate varied media that evoked both lyrical abstraction and symbolic representation.
CoLabART
• Lynn Small + Dennis Paul
Forever Wild Series
Sunset
on the Marsh 1989-1994
Mixed-media
on
Canvas and Panel
36"H x 48"W
Lynn Small is an art honors graduate of The High School of Music and Art, NYC [now known as the LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts—the first school in the nation [1936] to provide a free, publicly-funded program for students gifted in the arts. It has been replicated in most major cities and has earned an international reputation for excellence. As a Dean's List student at New York University, majoring in painting with a minor in film theory, she studied with such renowned painters of the second-generation Abstract Expressionist school as Milton Resnick, Esteban Vicente, Hale Woodruff, John Opper, and Robert Kaupelis as well as the legendary art historian, Irving Sandler and film critic and theorist, Andrew Sarris and John Gassner respectively.
In
the early 1970s, while living and working in Spain, Lynn began work on the
Earth Stains Series and had a solo exhibition at the United
States Embassy, USIA Cultural Center in Madrid. This has been an ongoing body
of work that has evolved into many sub-series and the collaborative Earth
Series as well as the multimedia installation projects—Earth
Elegies. In the mid 1970s, she began a series of anthropological, God-like
imagery while her artist husband, Dennis Paul and she lived in Cuernavaca,
Mexico. Some twenty years later, this major body of work would inspire the
current Southwest Spirit Guides Series.
Shortly thereafter, she received the prestigious Yaddo Residency Fellowship
in painting where a collaboration began with her husband, Dennis Paul of layering
the photographic and painterly into a seamless fusion of nude, landscape and
Kabbalah imagery that now includes the digital realm of photography, video
and SoundScapes that accompany their multimedia, immersive site-specific installations
in collaboration with other visual and performing artists, musicians and writers.
CoLabART, the third artist, reflects the changes in the making of marks and
the creation of 21st-century art practices.
The Earth Stains paintings and works on paper have evolved into the
series—Golden Light and Shimmering Light—part of
the individual and collaborative California Coastal UpLift project
and in the fall of 2003 while again the receipient of a Yaddo Residency Fellowship,
the series Autumn Light began. The artist has been a finalist
for the prestigious Gottlieb Foundation Grant in 2004, 2011, 2013 and 2015.
Ms.
Small has lived and exhibited in New York, Europe, Mexico, San Francisco,
and Los Angeles. Her work has been shown in numerous gallery and museum exhibitions.
She has lectured at the Museum of the City of Mexico, the Art Institute of
Chicago and the Brooks Institute of Photography, Santa Barbara, California
among others and has received various grants, awards and commissions. Lynn's
work is represented in public and private collections both in the United States
and abroad.
Also in Power Point Presention
with Media Components
C o L a b A R T
1978 — PRESENT
CoLabART
Current Work-in-Progress
Voice of the Landscape
A PALIMPSEST OF TIME AND PLACE
Earth Elegies III
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