Simmons College

As an artist, B. Lynch, has been working with the topic of folly for the last fifteen years. Her theatrical installations of the Folly pantheon have been shown at many solo exhibitions in New England including: Chain of Fools: Hogarth Reinterpreted by B. Lynch, a mixed media and video installation at University of New Hampshire spring 2004. She presented the Throne Project 2003, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Fool's Progress, Eastern CT State University,2003; The Game of Folly, 1999, The Art Complex Museum; and Plucked Fruit, Montserrat College of Art, 1998. Lynch has shown extensively in group shows including The Chicken Show at the Boston Center for the Arts fall 2001; as well as shows in Germany and the Midwest. The New Bedford Film and Video Festival premiered her 20minute video: Lust and Knowledge in 2001. Fortune's Fickle Lover was shown at the Brickbottom Gallery film/video festival October 2002. She presented a mixed media and video installation, Truth & Folly at UMass Amherst November 2004. January 2006 her project Just a Pack of Cards, with the Open Studio Program was on view at the Currier Museum in Manchester NH. Opening in Spring 2007 at the Children's Museum her site-specific installation - Folly Roger & the Sunken Treasure. "Tragical, Comical..." Art Shaken & Stirred Via the Literary Tradition will premier March 2008 in Fall River at Bristol Community College Grimshaw-Gudewicz Art Gallery.  It will feature a site built Labyrinth and a video trilogy: The Passion of Orpheus and Eurydice.

She has won seven awards for her projects and is a co-founder of the Hall Street Artist Collaborative, which produced its second outdoor video screening in 2003. Her bibliography includes reviews in Sculpture Magazine, ART New England, the Boston Globe, the Boston Herald, the Patriot Ledger, 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; Private collections in the USA, Germany and Sweden.

As a teacher she has wide experience. At Simmons, She enjoys the teaching resources of the nearby museums and galleries and her classes make full use of these resources.  As part of a Colloquium funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities she lectured and displayed work at Hood College in Maryland, 2004. Her popular lectures on the topic of Folly and art have been given at many universities and colleges, most recently at Art Break, the UNH Art Gallery lecture series and the University Hour lecture at E.CT State University. Lynch received her training at the Museum School in Boston and BA from Kansas University.

Critics say of her work: 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. ** "All is Folly" succeeds in creating a kind of carnival of paintings - riotous and debauched, and altogether worthwhile. — Cate McQuaid The Boston Globe.

Web site: Praise of Folly the Art of B. Lynch  Home: http://www.simmons.edu/~lynchb