Janelle Lynch
Janelle Lynch is an American large format (8×10 inch) landscape photographer.[1][2][3][4][5][6] She was shortlisted for the Prix Pictet 2019,[7] the world's leading prize for photography.[8]
Janelle Lynch | |
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Nationality | American |
Education | School of Visual Arts |
Known for | Photography |
In her 20-year career, Lynch has been creating long-term projects in the landscapes of the United States, Mexico, and Spain; focusing on themes of absence, transcendence, and life cycles. Her most recent series, Another Way of Looking at Love, explores the interconnection of all life forms, and supports a renewal of human relationships to each other and to the natural and spiritual worlds.
Lynch's work is held in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of the City of New York, The New York Public Library, Brooklyn Museum, George Eastman Museum, and New-York Historical Society, among others worldwide.
Education
In 1999, Lynch completed an MFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts where she studied with Joel Sternfeld and Stephen Shore. In 2003, she completed the Master Class in Photography, a one-on-one tutorial with Shore at Bard College. From 2015-2018, while photographing Another Way of Looking at Love, Lynch studied perceptual drawing and painting with Graham Nickson at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting & Sculpture.
Work
Lynch has three monographs published by Radius Books: Los Jardines de México (2010); AIGA award-winning Barcelona (2013), which also features her writings; and Another Way of Looking at Love (2018), which includes an essay by Darius Himes, International Head of Photographs, Christie's.[9][10][11]
Los Jardines de México consists of four related projects, using the landscape of Mexico City and the countryside of Chiapas to explore aspects of life cycles. Three of these projects were realized while Lynch was living in Mexico City. In 2008, photography writer and independent curator Charlotte Cotton named Los Jardines de México a finalist for the Santa Fe Prize for Photography.[12]Barcelona contains five related series that were realized between 2007 and 2011, when Lynch was living in Spain. Photographs were created along seminal waterways in Catalonia's history to explore what remains after loss, such as puddles, leaves, and litter. Barcelona also includes the artist's writings about her creative influences and nature. American Institute of Graphic Arts named Barcelona a recipient of their 50 Books/50 Covers Award in 2013. In 2013, jurors Charlotte Cotton and Diana Edkins named Lynch's Walls series (from Barcelona) a finalist for The Cord Prize.[13] Also in 2013, Lynch was named the first Artist-in-Residence at the Burchfield Penney Art Center in Buffalo, NY. The resulting project, Presence, was acquired by the museum and exhibited there in 2014.[14]
Another Way of Looking at Love is a three-year project that is influenced by her recent immersion in drawing and painting from observation and from her interest in relational-cultural theory. In 2018, Radius Books published a monograph of the work that Lynch co-designed. Charlotte Cotton describes the book as being “…full of delicate hope.”[15] Lynch's practice has been supported by substantial 8×10 film grants from Kodak in 2007, 2008, and 2011. She writes about contemporary issues in photography, reviews books, and lectures widely. She was a 2012 to 2013 Fellow at The Writers’ Institute, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY.[16] She teaches at the International Center of Photography.
Lynch's work has appeared in international publications including The Boston Globe, The Buffalo News, The Photo Review, Photo District News, photo-eye, L'Oeil de la Photographie, Photo-International, and La Vanguardia. She is a faculty member at the International Center of Photography and a frequent guest lecturer. She writes about photography for Afterimage, photo-eye, and The Photo Review.
Publications
Monographs
- Los Jardines de México (2011)
- Barcelona (2013)
- Another Way of Looking at Love (2018)
Exhibition catalogs
- Presence, Burchfield Penney Art Center (2014)
Awards and honors
- 2007 - Festival International de Mode et de Photographie à Hyères, Finalist[17][18]
- 2007 - Kodak, Grant[19]
- 2007 - Photo España Descubrimientos, Finalist
- 2008 - Kodak, Grant[19]
- 2009 - Santa Fe Prize for Photography, Finalist[20]
- 2011 - Kodak, Grant[19]
- 2013 - The Cord Prize, Finalist[21]
- 2013 - AIGA, Award[17]
- 2013 - Burchfield Penney Art Center, Artist-in-Residence [22]
- 2017–2019 - The Hermitage Artist Retreat, Artist-in-Residence[23]
- 2019 - Prix Pictet, Shortlist[24]
Solo exhibitions
- 2003 - University of California Berkeley, San Francisco Extension, San Francisco, CA
- 2005 - Furman University, Greenville, SC
- 2006 - Gallery 44, Toronto, Canada
- 2007 - Centro Cultural Banco de Brasil, Brasília, Brazil
- 2007 - Galería 3 Punts, Barcelona, Spain
- 2007 - RO Galería de Arte, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- 2008 - Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Salta, Argentina
- 2008 - Photofusion, London, England[25]
- 2009 - Galería 3 Punts, Barcelona, Spain[26]
- 2011 - Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA[27]
- 2011 - Museo Archvio de la Fotografía, Mexico City, Mexico
- 2012 - Radius Books Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
- 2013 - Robert Morat Galerie, Berlin, Germany[19]
- 2013 - Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL
- 2014 - Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY[22]
- 2019 - Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY[28]
Collections
Lynch's work is held in the following public collections:
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY[29]
- New York Public Library, New York, NY[30]
- New York Historical Society, New York, NY[31]
- The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY[32]
- Newark Museum, Newark, NJ[19]
- George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY[33]
- Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY[34]
- Fundacio Vila Casa, Barcelona, Spain[35]
References
- Risch, Conor. Inside The Garden, Photo District News July, 2011.
- Weideman, Paul. Photo Synthesis, The Santa Fe New Mexican 22 July 2011, pp 28-29.
- Bufill, Juan. Rio Industrial, La Vanguardia 20 September 2009.
- D’Imbert, S. Muñoz. Janelle Lynch: El Riu Llobregat o l’elegia d’allò que va ser, Bon Art September, 2009, p77.
- Bufill, Juan. Ritmo de Ruinas, La Vanguardia 14 October 2007, p.45.
- Koetzle, Hans-Michael. Portfolio: Janelle Lynch, Photo-International September–October 2007, no. 5, pp. 50-57.
- "Prix Pictet | The global award in photography and sustainability". www.prixpictet.com. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
- "V&A · Prix Pictet 2019: Hope". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
- Feeney, Mark. "Uncommon beauty in Janelle Lynch's 'Los Jardine de Mexico'", The Boston Globe, Boston, 2 December 2011.
- Robson, Faye. Los Jardines de Mexico, photo eye Magazine 17 October 2011.
- Smithson, Aline. JANELLE LYNCH: BARCELONA, Lenscratch,13 January 2014.
- "Santa Fe Prize - 2011 - CENTER". CENTER. Retrieved 2018-06-23.
- "The Cord Prize, Finalist Page". Archived from the original on 2014-04-22. Retrieved 2014-04-22.
- Presence: Janelle Lynch, "Pulled, As if By Force," Nancy Weekly, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY (catalog essay) 2014
- "Janelle Lynch: Another Way of Looking at Love | Radius Books". Retrieved 2019-07-03.
- Photo Eye, articles
- "50 Books | 50 Covers: Design Observer". designobserver.com. Retrieved 2018-07-31.
- "ON PHOTOGRAPHY & ILLUSTRATION". www.on-photography.com. Retrieved 2018-07-31.
- "BARCELONA PHOTOGRAPHS AND WRITINGS BY JANELLE LYNCH". Musée Magazine. Retrieved 2018-07-31.
- "2009 Santa Fe Prize for Photography Winner: HIROYO KANEKO | Mary Virginia Swanson | On Making and Marketing Art". mvswanson.com. Retrieved 2018-07-31.
- "Janelle Lynch". www.spenational.org. Retrieved 2018-07-31.
- "Janelle Lynch: Presence > Exhibitions > Burchfield Penney Art Center". www.burchfieldpenney.org. Retrieved 2018-07-31.
- "Janelle Lynch: Another Way of Looking at Love". LENSCRATCH. 2018-11-13. Retrieved 2019-07-09.
- "Prix Pictet | The global award in photography and sustainability". www.prixpictet.com. Retrieved 2019-07-09.
- "Janelle Lynch: River - Exhibition at Photofusion in London". ArtRabbit. Retrieved 2018-07-31.
- Galeria, 3 Punts (2014-06-20), Lynch, retrieved 2018-07-31
- "PRC | exhibitions". www.prcboston.org. Retrieved 2018-07-31.
- "Hudson River Museum". Hudson River Museum. Retrieved 2019-07-09.
- "Collection". Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 2018-06-25.
- "Untitled #3 - Wallach Prints and Photos". wallachprintsandphotos.nypl.org. Retrieved 2018-07-31.
- "Janelle Lynch photographs". bobcat.library.nyu.edu. Retrieved 2018-07-31.
- "Brooklyn Museum". www.brooklynmuseum.org. Retrieved 2018-07-31.
- "Search". George Eastman Museum. Accessed 25 June 2018.
- "Collection > Burchfield Penney Art Center". www.burchfieldpenney.org. Retrieved 2018-07-31.
- www.anunzia.com. "Janelle Lynch - Artist information". www.fundaciovilacasas.com. Retrieved 2018-07-31.