Kathryn Lynch’s paintings explore the structure of place through acts of prolonged observation. Working across urban and rural environments, she abstracts roads, infrastructure, light, and landscape into unstable spatial fields, where recognisable forms gradually dissolve into ambiguity. Her softly layered, accretive brushwork compresses atmosphere and surface, allowing familiar forms to slip into indeterminate states shaped by tonal contrast. Approaching painting as an open-ended, gestural process, Lynch resists fixed locations and narratives. Rather than depicting specific sites, her work registers conditions of light, distance, weather, and time, enabling landscapes to function not as physical locations, but as perceptual and lived experiences that remain fleeting, provisional and unresolved.
Kathryn Lynch was born in 1961 and received her MFA from the University of Pennsylvania in 1990. She has participated in several residency programmes including, the Colstoun House Residency (2025), the Skowhegan Alumni Residency, the Edward Albee Foundation Residency (2021), Foundation Valparaiso Residency (2018), and the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation (1995). She was awarded the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Painting in 2018 and received the 1989 Fellowship Award from the Vermont Studio Center through the University of Pennsylvania. Lynch’s work has been exhibited globally in over twenty solo shows and upwards of thirty group exhibitions, including the Center for Maine Contemporary Art’s 2025 Biennial, with presentations in cities such as New York, St. Petersburg, Boston, Los Angeles, and Miami. Her work is also included in multiple prominent collections, such as Fort Wayne Museum of Art (Indiana, USA), University of California Berkeley Art Museum (California, USA), Millenium Art Collection (New York, USA), Wellington Art Collection (UK), and Microsoft (Washington, USA). Lynch lives and works in Catskill, New York.
