Lynn Dreese Breslin
Lynn Dreese Breslin · Source: New York Artists Circle · Rights retained by the original rights holders
- Medium
- Acrylic Paint, Graphite, Oil Paint
- Based in
- Hudson River Valley
- Practice
- Drawing, Painting
Lynn’s work is inspired by subjects that are personal or autobiographical and that explore themes of memory and time. She paints & draws common objects or subjects that are transformed by inner and unconscious associatio… Full biography
Biography
Lynn’s work is inspired by subjects that are personal or autobiographical and that explore themes of memory and time. She paints & draws common objects or subjects that are transformed by inner and unconscious associations triggered in the process of creating them. She distills her subjects until the essential elements of the image convey a sense of intimacy and personal history.
Her graphite drawings have been shown at the Albany Institute of History & Art, the Drawing Biennial at the Muscarelle Art Museum, Williamsburg, Virginia, and the Art Museum, SUNY Albany. Her paintings have been exhibited at the Samuel Dorsky Museum, New Paltz, the Art Museum SUNY Albany, the Kleinert/James Art Center, Woodstock, NY, the Muroff Kotler Visual Arts Gallery at SUNY Ulster, BCB Art in Hudson, NY, the Salena Gallery, Brooklyn, the OK Harris Gallery, NYC, and El Barrio, NYC.
She grew up in the farmland of Pennsylvania. After graduating from Drexel University in Philadelphia, she moved to New York City where she designed album covers and book jackets during the day and took night classes in painting at the School of Visual Arts. She received her MFA in painting from Hunter College, NYC. Lynn taught at Fordham University, the School of Visual Arts and most recently at Parsons, The New School in New York City. After working in Soho for almost a decade she moved her studio to the Hudson River Valley where she currently resides and works.
Artist statement
For me, painting and drawing become a dialogue between the past and the present. Using paint, graphite, light, and shadow, I explore memory and time by interpreting autobiographical subjects. My work is an effort to excavate memories of a past time that has left an imprint that I carry into the present and the future. This continuum of time between past and present is deeply rooted in my personal history.
I paint from objects and photographs that conjure up memories from a lost time—often childhood—and translate and convert them into present-day visual narratives. These subjects are transformed by inner and unconscious thoughts, memories, desires, and emotions which are triggered during the process of painting and drawing.
