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SECRET LIFE OF
THE FOREST

GAZE SERIES

WONDERLAND

ICONS

DRAWINGS

EXHIBITIONS

BIO

STATEMENT

CONTACT
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Rene Lynch - Secret

Rene Lynch . from the Secret Life of the Forest series, Secret . oil on canvas . 60" x 72" . 2007-08

Celebrate Summer
 
Jenkins Johnson Gallery
San Francisco and New York City
www.jenkinsjohnsongallery.com
 
July 24 - August 30, 2008
 
click to see New Yorker pick for this show...

Ces Étranges Enfants (Those Strange Children),
curated by: Douglas Ferrari
 
The Shore Institute of the Contemporary Arts (SICA)
20 Third Avenue Long Branch, NJ 07740
732-263-1121   www.sica.org   info@sica.org
 
Reception: Sunday, September 7, 3-6pm.
 
including: Rene Lynch, Ray Ceasar, Henry Darger, Loretta Lux, Sally Mann,
Yoshitomo Nara, Rachelle Mozman, Nina Levy and others
 
September 5 – October 10, 2008

The Figure Today
 
Jenkins Johnson Gallery
San Francisco and New York City
www.jenkinsjohnsongallery.com
 
September 4 - October 25, 2008

solo exhibition: Rene Lynch, Dreaming
 
Galerie Kaysser, Munich, Germany
www.galerie-kaysser.de/rene_lynch.htm
 
October 16- November 20, 2008

Exchange
 
Kunst und Gewerbeverein Regensberg, Germany
 
September 12- October 12, 2008

Kuf/Mold part 2
 
Jan Kolle Gallery, Ghent, Belgium

Sept/Oct 2008 Awarded Fellowship, Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus, Schwandorf, Germany

RENE LYNCH Secrets      
 
March 6 - April 26, 2008
 
Jenkins Johnson Gallery
 
464 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94108
t:415.677.0770 f:415.677.0780
 
sf@jenkinsjohnsongallery.com
http://www.jenkinsjohnsongallery.com

Rene Lynch - Gaze series, Liquid
 
Rene Lynch Der Blick The Gaze
Galerie Kunstlade Museum, Zittau, Germany
in collaboration with Galerie Kaysser, Munich Germany
 
January 4 - March 2, 2008
 

Detail Black Water
Jenkins Johnson Gallery Winter Selections 2008
January 24, 2007 - March 1, 2008
http://www.jenkinsjohnsongallery.com
 
 
 
 
 

Brooklyn Museum, Target First Saturdays
December 1, 2007
6:00 p.m. Artist Talk
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Forum, 4th Floor http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/visit/first_saturdays.php
Contemporary artists Rene Lynch and Patricia Cronin discuss watercolor painting and feminist perspectives in their work. Free tickets are available at the Visitor Center at 5 p.m.
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Forum, 4th Floor

Offering Inner Child: Good and Evil in the Garden of Memories
curated by Kristen Accola
HUNTERDON MUSEUM OF ART
October 7, 2007 - January 6, 2008
7 Lower Center Street, Clinton NJ 08809
1 hour from NYC
for directions: http://www.hunterdonartmuseum.org/visitor_information/
 
See NYTimes review of this show.
 
from the catalog....
"Rene Lynch has painted a series of young girls in the forest engaged in activities that place them on the precipice between innocence and innocence lost. This is surely a depiction of good and evil in the garden of memories. These girls are lovely, willowy, and seductive. Their glances lure the viewer in. In Offering one girl holds an apple beckoning us to folllow. The symbolism is both blatant and subtle. It could so easily be an innocent scene but it resonates with a horror film's ending." - Kristen Accola, curator

Rene Lynch - Mary's Lamb
 
 
Anniversary Exhibit
Jenkins Johnson Gallery
http://www.jenkinsjohnsongallery.com
San Francisco, CA
(catalog available)
November 1 , 2007 - January 5, 2008
 
 
 

Check out the interview with James Kalm on youtube;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neu6rfcbV3A
for the recent exhibition:
Rene Lynch, Wonderland and The Gaze
Jenkins Johnson Gallery

New Catalog/Brochure available:
Secret Life of the Forest
with an essay by
Charlotta Kotik,
Curator Emerita, Contemporary Art,
Brooklyn Museum of Art, NYC
from hpgrp gallery Tokyo / New York

Gaze (Apricot)
catalog cover- Rene Lynch, The Gaze Series

Rene Lynch, The Gaze Series
catalogue available with essays translated into German and English by Nicole Rudick of ARTFORUM magazine, NYC and German critic Cornelia Kleyboldt of Munich as well an artist's statement and images of the entire series.
(click here to order catalogue)

ARTIST STATEMENT
My work explores that period of puberty that embodies pure spirit and an inchoate knowledge of power and vulnerability, when a child begins to break free and desires, like Alice in Wonderland, to see what is beyond the looking glass.

My images depict the blurred boundary dividing innocence and experience, and provide an intense examination of that nexus where childish fantasy collides with a growing realization of the body, of sexuality and its power. That cusp in life between the unselfconscious exuberance of childhood, and adulthood with its inevitable series of responsibilities and regrets. In that middle period the individual's savage, reckless, and extravagant traits are not yet tamed, before they are encultrated to society's expectations and limits. The adolescent's instincts are honed and sharp. There is a certain honesty to this time in life when intuitive nature is ascendant and the true nature with its raw emotions and untapped and confusing desires are on the surface. I am fascinated at how the body of a young teen reveals its inner vulnerability by the awkward turn of the shoulders, the inward turn of the foot or the expression on the lip. Smoothly worked with a glowing translucence, my watercolor and oil paintings are composed in a large empty field stripped of all that is superfluous, and in this way the central figure becomes iconic.

I draw inspiration from my own interpretations of the violent struggles, curiosity and coming of age stories of classic fairy tales, nursery rhymes, and mythology.

-Rene Lynch, 2005

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