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Associate Professor of Practice of Art, Director of the Trustman Art Gallery

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B.A. University of Kansas B.A.

M.F.A. Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University

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As an artist, B. Lynch, has been working with the topic of folly for many years. Her theatrical installations of the Folly pantheon have been shown at many solo exhibitions in New England. Her new project: The Red and the Grey showed at two venues in 2013.

Lynch has been combining digital and other media for several years, including "Tragical, Comical"... an installation with video and a site-specific labyrinth at the Grimshaw-Gudewicz Gallery in Fall River MA in 2008.  She presented a mixed media and video installation, Truth & Folly at UMass Amherst November 2004. Chain of Fools: Hogarth Reinterpreted by B. Lynch, a mixed media and video installation at University of New Hampshire. January 2006 her project Just a Pack of Cards, with the Open Studio Program was on view at the Currier Museum in Manchester NH. Other shows of note are: the Throne Project 2003, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Fool’s Progress, Eastern CT State University;The Game of Folly, The Art Complex Museum; and Plucked Fruit, Montserrat College of Art. Lynch has shown extensively in group shows, including The Chicken Show at the Boston Center for the Arts; as well as shows in Germany and the Midwest. Her popular lectures on the topic of Folly and art have been given at many universities and colleges.

Nevada, California, Texas and Alaska have played host to her videos and sound projects from 2011-2012. Video projects were screened at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburg, University of California Chico State, Lexington Art League among others. The Artist Foundation, Boston, premiered her solo video project: The Lunar Cycle 1 in November 2009.  Studio Green Gallery in Munich Germany premiered two videos in Fall 2009. Miss Kittikins... is included in Creatures Great & Small, a show originating at Murray State College in Kentucky, it has a catalog and traveled to Paducah and Lexington Ky.  
 
The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts awarded her a fellowship in 2008. She has won several awards for her projects, including a Puffin Grant and Ludwig Vogelstein award. She is a co-founder of the Hall Street Artist Collaborative, which produced two outdoor video screenings. Her bibliography includes reviews in Sculpture Magazine, ART New England, the Boston Globe, the Boston Herald, the Patriot Ledge, the Wire and others, as well as several exhibition catalogues, and two cable TV presentations. She is included in the Springfield Ohio Museum of Art; The Boston Public Library, Boston; the Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA; Eastern Connecticut State University Collection; University of NH Art Museum; Private collections in the USA, Germany and Sweden.

Critics say of her work: “Created with compassion, originality and wit, Lynch’s tableaux are metaphors for society.”—Alicia Faxon Art New England. "Lynch has inspiration and intellect to spare. Her installation embraces the illogic of chance, double dealing, and rule breaking that too often define our lives. Her work also includes the overt nod to Dada and recalls Duchamp's passion for chess."—John Stomberg ART New England. 


Art 100 Objects and Ideas: A Museum History
Art 111 Drawing I: Draw What You See
Art 211 Drawing II: Contemporary Visions
Art 119 Sculpture
Art 121 Artist’s Books
Art 112 Color Studio
Art 213 Painting: Observation to Expression

The Red & the Grey mixed media project: The two factions are situated in a world out of time. The Reds are deliciously decadent and their clothing and objects convey their status. The Greys are colorless, hardworking denizens of a harsh world.

My artistic concerns revolve around the human condition, which I term: folly. I examine our ideas about class, technology and narrative in this project. Making my figures out of simple materials: paper, wire, paint and wood, they swagger or skulk across their given stage, leaving the viewer to construct relationships between these figures that inhabit an imaginary world connecting the swashbuckling 18thC and the depressive era of our contemporary time.

Skirting Identity: Women and Weaving in Laos, Thailand, and Myanmar

The project’s centerpiece is an interdisciplinary exhibition and catalogue examining the social meanings of textiles among selected groups living in northern Southeast Asia, with a specific focus on women’s clothing and the means by which it conveys social status, community values and traditional artistry. 

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As an artist, B. Lynch, has been working with the topic of folly for many years. Her theatrical installations of the Folly pantheon have been shown at many solo exhibitions in New England.

More information about her work can be found here.

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