Derek lynch was born in Englewood NJ and currently lives and works in San Francisco CA. Solo and Group exhibitions have been featured at: Schneider Museum of Art, Ashley Oregon, Bedford Gallery of Contemporary Art, Walnut Creek, CA, SFMOMA Museo gallery, San Francisco,CA, SFMOMA Artist Gallery San Francisco, CA, Gallerie Citi, CA. .

Artist Statement

My new work involves the creation of urban based Idealized landscapes in dream like circumstances. Ambiguous relationships and unsettling juxtapositions.

I am focusing and dissecting, rearranging forms derived from the architecture of the bay area to create new perspectives.

My text are idioms of my perception of reality base on the Current social political life we live.

The outcome can be whimsical and yet it offers a serious sociopolitical commentary on the changes to our urban landscape.

My perception of reality, and how I interpret it, was shaped by the implications of the housing scandals of the last decade.

I am attempting to combine these observations to create a compilation of connective awareness.

In 2006, I began working with architectural forms using ink, pencil markers, acrylic paint, and archival pigment. My use of these materials has become a prominent feature of my work..

I was fortunate to attend the School of the Visual Arts in New York City in the early 80’s with artists such as Keith Haring and Kenny Scharf.

As a musician my band played at CBGB's in 1986 & 87 at the Christmas special as the 'Special Guests' after the performance in 1987 we performed live on WFMU radio.

My film debut was at the Castro Theater in San Francisco, BAM in Berkeley, CA, and The Kitchen in New York City in 2000.

My film debut was at the Castro Theater in San Francisco, BAM in Berkeley, CA, and The Kitchen in New York City in 2000.

Making art is how I make sense of the world and my forgotten childhood. Observing my own anxieties and awkwardness I create visual narratives that examine loneliness, responsibility, and choice. In my work the innocence and vulnerability associated with children and animals is constrained. These stories unfold in the space between memory and nostalgia, and focus on the tension between youth and maturity. In the sculptures, composed of discarded stuffed animals sewn over taxidermy forms, I am observing how childhood and adulthood circle one another. The forms usually used as hunting trophies have now become the mementos of a lost childhood.

Kellyʼs work draws on the inspirations of her early childhood memories and the organic forms and colors found in nature. Combining other disciplines such as sculptural elements within the glass and hand paint; her work reflects her belief in simplistic forms and asymmetry, varying in color intensity from landscape palettes to the boldness of graffiti art. As a self taught artist she has studied techniques in such mediums as painting, ceramic sculpture, metal smithing, woodworking, photography and motorcycle maintenance which she combines with to create the unique pieces.

art makes me make art makes me. i work in a variety of mediums, reflecting my take on everything from societies absurdities to its beauties. Often I work quickly on impulse and find i achieve my best results this way. In the past i have worked with ceramics, but currently focus on latex painting, drawing, silkscreening, installation, and performance art.

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Flora’s main medium is metal. It is man-made as well as natural. It is her canvas. Like a Zen alchemist, she works the surface, creating patinas through the application of an eclectic mix of chemicals and compounds to copper, brass, aluminum and steel. Through multiple applications she strives to achieve an amazing range of patterns, textures and colors. These are then cut up and applied to geometric box shapes or bent and shaped into non representational wall sculptures. Flora completed her MFA in 1990. As a result of this program she began to incorporate her interest in Buddhism with her art. One teaching of the Buddha that she uses for inspiration is the understanding of impermanence— fleeting nature of time—which is reflected in the spontaneous nature of her art. Flora’s work has been exhibited in both solo and group shows in numerous galleries in the Bay Area and New York. Her work has been published in two nationally juried publications: Open Studio Press and, American Art Collector. 

Spring 2011. Juror’s Choice Award, 1st place, sculpture, at the ArtSpan Benefit Show & Auction.

Winter 2010. Flora was one of twenty artists chosen for ArtSpan’s biennial juried exhibition, Selections, shown at California Modern Gallery in SF.

Spring 2009. Flora spent 14 days on a solo retreat at the Morris Graves Foundation in Loleta, California.

Flora has studied at the School of Visual Art in NYC, has a Masters of Painting with Summit University and took classes with master artist/teacher Elaine Badgley Arnoux of San Francisco. She taught at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco.

GLASS
 I often work with glass, which is a particularly magical medium. Being translucent yet solid, as an invisible boundary, it simultaneously is and isn’t. This reflects well my intention to make manifest subtle philosophical concepts. The kiln work in the studio is itself alchemical and the effect intended for the viewer is none the less so. My work serves as a portal to that which we recognize as absolute. This transportation can be as simple as losing oneself in an intricate colorful flower pattern; or as complex as visually entering a mysterious architectural structure where a non-linear stage setting appears to be casting a spell.
DIGITAL WORK
My current drawing and painting involves recording what is, especially when I am drawing strangers in public. I am not overlaying my message on the subject but the message or mood emerges of it’s own. See more at betweenstops.wordpress.com where I accompany the image with fictional text as a comment on our society and our personal lives in it.
9x9s
Viewing the 9 x9 series reads more like a painting on a wall. Make a statement like “Yield” or another traffic instruction (navigating through life) but in in a primary and basic way. Modern Heiroglyphics made from coloured glass in molds fired and cut and refired until the thickness and stability of the glass feels more like stone than crystal. The surfaces have the warm friendliness of a worn building who has seen time pass. Friendly and wise.

I build carefully crafted art from the common debris of our city. Through wanton use of cardboard, wine corks, maps and old paper, sometimes copper and nice wood, hollow core doors and salvaged hardware, I strive to assemble sturdy, possibly graceful work, some functional some useless, some very participatory, and all heartfelt. In my studio and through my work I explore my history and relationship with place, both as a participant in this American Nation, as well as a complex organism in a biosphere known as the Bay Area of Planet Earth. I also continue to hone my technical skills, offer some fun, and make the best art I can manage. My studio is in the garage of my home in Bernal Heights