JF LYNCH
POSTED 2.02.12
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Exhibition Dates: February 10-26, 2012
Opening Reception: Friday, Feb. 10th from 7-10pm

Fowler Arts Collective is pleased to present Of Mind, Body & Soul: An Exploration of the Personal, an exhibition of new work by seven Brooklyn-based artists curated by Peter Gynd Medley.

The exhibition presents works that address the theme of questioning and exploring the self, bringing together a diverse cross-section of the current Brooklyn arts scene. Each artist was selected for their singular approach to the title subject. Carolina Duque, Katya Grokhovsky, J.F. Lynch, Ellie Murphy, Caitlin Peluffo, Katarina Riesing, and Ryan Turley uniquely explore deep and critical relationships with themselves. These works, many of which were created specifically for this exhibition, allow for an insight into each artist's psyche, but they also pose broader questions of an individual's internal relationship with the self.

Please join us for Of Mind, Body & Soul's opening reception on Friday, Feb. 10th from 7-10 pm. From 7:30-9:30pm during the opening reception, there will be a performance by Katya Grokhovsky. The exhibition will be on view from February 10th to 26th, 2012. During the exhibition, Fowler will have open gallery hours on Saturdays and Sundays from 12pm to 4pm. During other times, the exhibition can be viewed by appointment. Contact us here to make an appointment.

Fowler is located in the historic Greenpoint Terminal building on the East River waterfront at 67 West Street, Brooklyn, NY 11222. The closest subway is the Greenpoint Ave. G train stop.

Read more about the exhibition and artists on our website here:
http://www.fowlerartsbrooklyn.org/OMBS2012.html


Fowler Arts Collective
67 West Street, #216
Brooklyn, NY 11222

www.fowlerartsbrooklyn.org
SOPA/PIPA BLACKOUT


On January 18th www.jflynch.com participated in the internet blackout protest of SOPA and PIPA. All art images were hidden and other content was either blocked by a black bar or displayed the following message:

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ALL IMAGES AND CONTENT ON THIS WEBSITE HAVE BEEN BLOCKED.

-SOPA/ PIPA

https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/

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A few words regarding my decision to participate in the protest:

I typically believe that any artist whose work is not outwardly political should refrain from publicly aligning themselves with any movement for fear their work might inherit its negativity. But this is something different. The language constituting SOPA & PIPA is a violent and desperate attack on an established evolutionary advancement in our world culture. These propositions are the acts of people that fear for their own future security because they cannot control it. It is not that I do not sympathize with them, as someone who has not felt secure in a long time, I certainly do. It’s just that they no longer have any right to that security and they certainly have no right to try to take it from everyone else.

I would like to thank everyone who supported this protest.

-JFL
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Group Show at Botanic in Bushwick
F o r I m m e d I a t e R e l e a s e :



A Strange Sense of Calm

An unconventional drawing show highlighting creative experimentation by 8 artists



December 3 – December 26, 2011 at Botanic

Opening Reception for the Artists

Friday 12.9.2011, 7 – 9 pm

150 Wycoff Ave, Brooklyn NY 11237

Gallery Sat/Sun 1 – 5 pm



Artists: Amanda Browder, Joy Drury Cox, Justin Goetz, Parinot Kunakornwong,

JF Lynch, Paula Searing, Marc Slanger, Jessica Walker; curated by Paul M Nicholson



A Strange Sense of Calm is intended to shine light on to the notional and aesthetic meanderings of artists employing a drawing methodology in their creative practice. For this show finished and unfinished works were chosen from a group of 8 artists [most of who do not self-identify as drawers]. Nonetheless, each artist makes use of drawing in their own way, they have ideas, make plans, sketch things out, experiment, record and describe in some way as a part of their creative practice.



Drawing is a process to record, work out, and describe ideas using sign, symbol and form; it’s one of the oldest and most accessible ways of working that almost every practitioner in every discipline uses at one time or another. Moma’s recent exhibition, On Line; Drawing Through the Twentieth Century, put forth a persuasive argument in support of drawing’s “departure from the institutional definition of drawing” while abandoning the burden of the illusionistic representational image paradigm. Drawing as a practice has undoubtedly gone well beyond the page in this our digital era manifesting itself in every form imaginable, while at the same time mark-making has manages to maintain its importance.



Employing a minimalist sensibility, Justin Goetz’ 2011 piece “A Strange State of Calm”, uses deceptively simple approach which is the heart of this unique drawing exhibition. In this work we’re presented with a photocopied book of ephemeral line illustration depicting utopic homes, castles, manors, and other environments, all crafted in a strange state of calm.
posted 08.15.11
WEDNESDAY!!!!!!

Additional Matter

Exhibition Dates: Aug 17 – Sept 4, 2011

Artists’ Reception:
Wednesday, Aug 17th, 2011 6-8 PM

Gallery Hours: Wednesday- Sunday 12-6 PM

Venue: Lyons Wier Project Space
175 7th Avenue @ W. 20th Street, New York
New York, NY 10011

Nearest Subway: C, E @ 23rd & 8th Ave / 1 @ 7th Ave.

Lyons Wier Gallery is pleased to announce the third and final installation of our summer group series,
Additional Matter, curated by staff member May Shetrit. The exhibition will be held at Lyons Wier
Gallery Project Space at 175 Seventh Ave.

The collection showcases recent pieces by emerging artists whose work explores the nature of material and
its effects once transformed. In the act of creation, artists have always extended the boundaries of the
material used for creation. The five artists participating in Additional Matter are Myles Bennett, Zac Braun,
Timothy Gasbarro, John F. Lynch and Christopher Stout, explore materials in their minor effects: changing
the form of the raw canvas, taking threads apart, or examining the effect of different materials when in
contact with one another. The exhibit surveys art made by young artists, validating the possibilities of
continuous exploration of material and form. The show will remain on view until September 4th.

The artists pay great attention to the individual form of their subjects, either through manipulation or through
transformation. In contrast to the work of the great masters of the 1960s and 1970s like Otto Muehl, Alex
Hubbard, Yves Klein - who explored the nature of their materials by performing rough or extreme changes
on them - the pieces on display in Additional Matter examine the subtleties of material in greater detail to
create a different whole. In so doing, the artists grant a narrative to their transformed material; or perhaps,
capture a narrative that was always there, living within the raw matter.

An intensive amount of repetition and meticulous attention to detail are at the core of many of these works.
Either by fortune or fate, the essential notions of substance and manner remain within them.

Expecting the unexpected, Additional Matter creates a sensitive narrative. It recounts the gradual changes
being brought by the artists to a hectic art world; changes wrought by their incredible ability to take into
consideration the details that determine our experience. - May Shetrit

For more information and images, please contact:
Lyons Wier Project Space
175 7th Ave, New York, NY 10011
Tel: (646) 588 5252, Email: gallery@lyonswiergallery.com
posted 08.11.11
My apologies for the delay in entries. I have been working towards this upcoming show. the press release is below, please consider yourself invited.


Opening August 17, 6-8 PM



August 17- September 5, 2011

175 7th Avenue

New York, NY 10011





Gallery Hours:

Wednesday- Sunday 12-6 PM





Lyons Wier Gallery is pleased to announce the third and final installation of our summer group series, Additional Matter, curated by staff member May Shetrit. The exhibition will be held at Lyons Wier Gallery Project Space at 175 Seventh Ave.



The collection showcases recent pieces by emerging artists whose work explores the nature of material and its effects once transformed. In the act of creation, artists have always extended the boundaries of the material used for creation. The five artists participating in Additional Matter are Myles Bennett, Zac Braun, Timothy Gasbarro, John F Lynch and Christopher Stout, explore materials in their minor effects: changing the form of the raw canvas, taking threads apart, or examining the affect of different materials when in contact with one another. The exhibit surveys art made by young artists, validating the possibilities of continuous exploration of material and form. The show will remain on view until September 5th.



The artists pay great attention to the individual form of their subjects, either through manipulation or through transformation. In contrast to the work of the great masters of the 1960s and 1970s like Otto Muehl, Alex Hubbard, Yves Klein - who explored the nature of their materials by performing rough or extreme changes on them - the pieces on display in Additional Matter examine the subtleties of material in greater detail to create a different whole. In so doing, the artists grant a narrative to their transformed material; or perhaps, capture a narrative that was always there, living within the raw matter.



An intensive amount of repetition and meticulous attention to detail are at the core of many of these works. Either by fortune or fate, the essential notions of substance and manner remain within them.



Expecting the unexpected, Additional Matter creates a sensitive narrative. It recounts the gradual changes being brought by the artists to a hectic art world; changes wrought by their incredible ability to take into consideration the details that determine our experience.



- May Shetrit, curator
posted: 05.20.11
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Interview with Apt: May 16, 2011

originally presented here:

Apt interviews: J.F. Lynch


1/There’s a great amount of movement in Some Produce and Stranger Glances, which is impressive since you capture that animation in both charcoal and oil paint. Is that an effect that you strive for in all your work or was it a facet of this specific pair?

It really depends on the subject of the picture. Movement was an important aspect for both of those pieces. Some Produce, for example, is primarily about a still life; a bowl of fruits and veggies. I was staring at these plants and thinking about their individual forms. How the curve of a banana tells the story of its growth and the gnarly top shows how it was twisted and torn free from its bunch. Each item–cucumber, zucchini, tomato–contained in itself the evidence of where it came from and how it got here. To really look at it was to watch it grow and arrive. Calling such a grouping “still” seemed grossly inappropriate. So the letters of that word are tucked around the forms in the picture.

But on the whole the presence of movement in my work has become more important. Whether it manifests as the appearance of a moving object or the movement of my hand rendering a stationary object, I think movement is a defining characteristic of a thing.

2/You have an undergraduate degree in illustration and will soon be completing your MFA in painting. Does your background in illustration lead to any themes in subject matter or composition choices?

Most definitely. One thing that I find many fine arts educations lack is the tenets of visual storytelling. At least this was the case when I was an undergrad, it may not be as true as it once was. But having studied illustration at that time allowed me to assimilate certain fundamentals of picture making, particularly treating a picture as a narrative. This heavily informs my compositions. I have a flittering notion that illustrators preserved many of the most important organizational techniques of both the Classical and Renaissance periods when Modern art had little use for them.

3/How does literature affect your work?

Whereas literature used to be an inspiration for my paintings, my recent drawings and paintings are in many ways an exploration of painting as literature. Seeing what it can mean to write in illusion, which is probably an asinine way of saying that I am testing the relationships between a real object, a written word, a drawn object, and a “real” word (spoken or thought).

4/Sum up your work in apt in five words: go!

No, really, what is that?


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posted: 05.06.11
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Group Show at the Pratt Manhattan Gallery

Graduate Fine Arts 2011

Pratt Manhattan Gallery
144 West 14th Street
New York, NY 10011


Opening reception:
Friday, May 13, 5 - 7 PM
Free and open to the public


show dates:
May 14 - 28, 2011

Featuring:
Me of course but also...
Na Young Ahn, Emily Auchincloss, Jonathan Axelrod, Eun Kyung Bae, Jennifer Beeman, Elizabeth Blair, Rebecca Borowicz, Emi Brady, Eric Breeding, Carolyn Butler, Robert Caruso, Goseong Choi, Devon Clapp, Biljana Djokanovic, Anthony Dodds, Charles Evans, Meredith Fitzgerald, Sara Frank, Ryan Gilmartin, Julie Goll, Camilla Gurun, Janean Hearn, Szu Wei Ho, Jane Huntington, Will Hutnick, Michael Hyder, Niki Ieriedes, Angela Jann, Jessica Johnson, Laura Johnson, Sonya Katcher, WonJung Kim, Eun Gyeong Ko, Jin Young Koh, Seung Hun Lee, Kyung Ran Lee, David Livingston, Colleen Macomber, Chelsea Mason, Anthony May, Kelly McQuilkin, Moses Noughbaudie, Melissa Pagan-Bidot, Soo Jin Park, Caitlin Peluffo, Gail Quagliata, Matthew Robinson, Nikki Romanello, Polly Shindler, Cory Sellers, Holly Senter, Yi Chuan Shih, Jessica Soininen-Eddis, Sang Mi Son, Amanda Sullivan, Megan Suttles, Ryan Turley, Isaac Williams, and Kelly Worman

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posted: 04.21.11
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One more week for the Pratt Harlem Project !

Just a reminder NYers,

If you have been foolhearty enough to procrastinate, you have exactly one more week to see the Pratt Harlem Project. It closes April 28th

http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Pratt-Painting-Club/195547143794025

am I in it?

F%&! yeah I'm in it what's your problem?

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posted: 04.11.11
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TWO CHANCES!

Hey Everybody (near NY)

You get two chances at a little bit of JF Lynching (yikes!)

anyways...

First, on Thursday April 14th you can find me at the opening of the Pratt Harlem Project. A group show of grads, undergrads, and -I believe- alumni from increasingly illustrious Pratt Institute.

Pratt Harlem Project
Thurs, April 14th 6-9PM
2280 Frederick Douglass Blvd, Harlem
New York, NY 10027

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=102154349870734#!/event.php?eid=153103768086407

Second, but not secondary, is Pratt MFA Open Studios!

The very next day Fri, April 15th from 6-9PM
come invade my personal space! See some new drawings! Get to see who’s going to be the next [name of famous contemporary artist]!

Pratt MFA Open Studios
Fri, April 15th from 6-9PM
ELJ 301: JF Lynch
200 Willoughby Ave
Brooklyn NY 11205

http://www.prattopenstudios.com/


YEAH!
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posted: 03.25.11
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J.F. Lynch: First Appearance

CLOSING RECEPTION:

March 25th from 5-9PM
DeKalb Gallery
200 Willoughby Ave
Brooklyn NY 11205

The closing reception for my MFA Thesis show is tonight from 5-9PM
The opening was outstanding, the run of the show has been stellar. I look forward to sharing more images after the show has come down.

Thank you everyone who attended.

I'm psyched

-JF

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posted: 02.06.11
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NEW EVERYTHING!

After an intense incubation earning my MFA from Pratt Institute I am back and in full bloom.

For the past two years you have only been able to get partial updates from other sources because I have been too busy going from the library to the studio to update my website. Well, this new design should streamline the process of updating; allowing me to get the most recent updates to you as soon as the … date… is… upped?

Anyway you’ll be the first to know the new news on shows, publications, swag, and new work. You can follow me on Twitter or Facebook and my blog through the links below as well.

Welcome to the rest of my life.

-J.F.

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