STATEMENT
Whether in the wilderness, city, or my studio in the Hudson Valley responses to nature and natural phenomena figure prominently in my paintings and drawings. My work has explored the land’s magic, plant/flower growth and I seek to combine the impossibility of capturing a moment in time with the primacy of imagination. I want to celebrate and explore the passage of light in time and space. My eye and creative vision move between varied experiences of nature, both at the micro and macro levels. Recently my work focuses on dancing molecules, moving in space and thus forever changing with the release of energy.
Travel in various terrains creates inspiration for my work which in the last few years includes walking on a glacier in the Canadian Rockies, a residency in southern France experiencing the wild force of the Mistral and an ecological exploration of disappearing glaciers and climate change. I relate to the powerful women artists of the present and past who forge ahead with their personal visions.
BIOGRAPHY
Lynne Friedman has had six solo shows in the Chelsea District of NY, the James McNeil Whistler Museum (MA), and the Booth Western Art Museum(GA). Her work was chosen in 2013 by the US Dept of State - Art in Embassies Program for exhibitions at the US Embassies in Djibouti, E. Africa and Colombo, Sri Lanka and included in exhibits at the Albright Knox Museum, the Attleboro Museum, the Hammond Museum and is in numerous private and corporate collections including Pfizer, IBM, McGraw Hill and the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Sarasota. She has been awarded seven art residencies from the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts,Tyrone Guthrie Center (Ireland), and Valparaiso (Spain). A former college artist/teacher at Manhattanville College and instructor at LLI, listed in Who's Who in American Art, she received a BA/MFA from Queens College and studied at the New York Studio School.