Janelle Lynch

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Janelle Lynch
Born	1969 (age 54–55)
Nationality	American
Education	School of Visual Arts
Known for	Photography

Janelle Lynch (born 1969)^[1] is an American artist whose images reveal an inquiry into themes of connection, presence, and transcendence.^{[2][3][4][5][6][7]} She uses an 8x10-inch view camera and alternative processes.^[8] While she photographed exclusively in the landscape for the first two decades of her career, Lynch's practice has expanded to include portraiture, still life, and cyanotype.^[9]

Photographic series[edit]

River[edit]

In 2001, she began her River series. It consists of 10 photographs that she made along the Hudson River in Manhattan, and explores impermanence and cultural change through historical urban architecture.

Los Jardines de México[edit]

Los Jardines de México begins with El Jardín de Juegos (Mexico City, 2002-2003), in Mexico City, where she lived for three years. Made with a 4×5-inch camera, the images, void of people, as are all of the works in the book, show the relics of a children's playground conquered by nature and neglect.

The Donde Andaba series (Mexico City, 2005), made with a 6x7-cm format camera, follows and represents a progression from the prior series in both content and form. The images juxtapose wild plant life with architecture and explore the subject of the persistence of life despite its ambient conditions.

Akna, the Mayan goddess of birth and fertility, is also believed to be a guardian saint. The photographs in this series, Akna (Chiapas, 2006), Lynch's first with an 8×10-inch camera, are portraits of anthropomorphized tree stumps in a nature reserve, which investigate the theme of regeneration.

Lynch made the final series in the book, La Fosa Común (Mexico City, 2007), also with an 8×10-inch camera, in the functioning, century-old common grave, centrally located within the city. The photographs of vegetation in various stages of the life cycle, coupled with subtle suggestions of the setting, further the exploration of notions of loss and death that El Jardín de Juegos began in 2002–2003, while simultaneously celebrating life and its intricate beauty.

Radius Books published Los Jardines de México in 2011.^[10]

Barcelona[edit]

From 2007 to 2011, while living in Spain, Lynch explored the fallow landscape outside of Barcelona. She photographed along waterways seminal to Catalonia's history to explore presence, memory and loss. With her 8×10-inch camera and a portrait lens, she photographed pylons, puddles, leaves, and litter as metaphors for themes of absence and presence, mourning and remembrance. Barcelona continues Lynch's long-term interest in representations of the life cycle in the landscape. Included with the five series of images that compose this project are writings in English and Spanish by her.

Radius published the work in her second monograph in 2013, Barcelona, with her nonfiction writings, including The Window, and the five related series she realized while living in Spain from 2007 to 2011. The book begins with a personal essay about Lynch's early relationship with nature. Woven throughout the remaining pages are text about and quotes from Charles Burchfield, Wendell Berry and Roland Barthes, whose works have been influential in Lynch's process.

In 2015, Barcelona was nominated for the Prix Pictet.

Presence[edit]

In 2013, Lynch was the first artist-in-residence^[11] at the Burchfield Penney Art Center in Buffalo, NY. By then, the painter Burchfield had been an important influence for many years. The resulting year-long project, Presence, uses naturally occurring connections in the landscape to affirm kinships with creative influences and progenitors of the environmental movement. In 2014, Nancy Weekly, Burchfield Scholar, curated an exhibition^[12] of it in the Burchfield Rotunda.

Another Way of Looking at Love[edit]

In 2018, Radius published her third monograph, Another Way of Looking at Love, which she co- designed. Another Way of Looking at Love is a three-year project that was influenced by her drawing and painting from observation at the New York Studio School and from her interest in relational-cultural theory.

Borne of awe for the power of nature, Another Way of Looking at Love seeks to inspire connection: to one another, to the planet, and to the generative possibilities of the present moment. It is influenced by Mary Oliver's poetry, Rebecca Solnit's writings about "slow seeing", Jon Kabat-Zinn's research on mindfulness and neuroscience, as well as Amy Banks' research on Relational Cultural Theory, which emphasizes the importance of loving human connections and their impact on our lives, culture, and planet.

In 2019, Another Way of Looking at Love was shortlisted for the Prix Pictet, the award for photography and sustainability.^[1] The theme was "hope." In February 2020, NPR's The Picture Show featured Another Way of Looking at Love in "A Photographer's Guide To 'Slow Seeing' The Beauty In Everyday Nature."^[13]

Publications[edit]

• Los Jardines de México. Radius, 2011. With a work of short fiction by Mario Bellatín and essay by José Antonio Aldrete-Hass.^[10]
• Barcelona. Radius, 2013 also with Lynch's nonfiction writings, including The Window, and five related series. Also with text about and quotes from Charles Burchfield, Wendell Berry and Roland Barthes.
• Another Way of Looking at Love. Radius, 2018. With an essay by Darius Himes.

Collections[edit]

Lynch's work is held in the following public collections:

• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY^[14]
• Victoria and Albert Museum, London UK: including six images from Another Way of Looking at Love^[15]
• Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL^[16]
• Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY^[17]
• New York Public Library, New York, NY^[18]
• York Historical Society, New York, NY^[19]
• Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY^[20]
• Newark Museum, Newark, NJ^[21]
• George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY^[22]
• Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY: Presence^[23]
• Fundacio Vila Casa, Barcelona, Spain^[24]
• Centro de Fotografía, Tenerife, Spain^[25]
• Fundación AMYC, Madrid, Spain^[26]
• Villa Noailles, Hyères, France^[27]
• Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL^[28]
• Stanford University, Stanford, CA^[29]

Exhibitions[edit]

Solo exhibitions[edit]

• Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, Narrowsburg, NY, 2020^[30]
• Janelle Lynch: Another Way of Looking at Love, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY, September 2019 – February 2020^[31]
• Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY, 2014 (catalog)^[32]
• Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL, 2013^{[citation needed]}
• Robert Morat Galerie, Berlin, 2013^[21]
• Museo Archvio de la Fotografía, Mexico City, Mexico, 2011
• Photofusion, London, 2008^[33]
• Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (Salta) [es], Argentina, 2008^{[citation needed]}
• Centro Cultural Banco de Brasil, Brasília, Brazil, 2007 (catalog)^{[citation needed]}
• Furman University, Greenville, SC, 2005^{[citation needed]}
• University of California Berkeley, San Francisco Extension, San Francisco, CA, 2003^{[citation needed]}

Group exhibitions[edit]

• Vital Signs: Place Biennial Exhibition included Lynch's River series, George Eastman Museum, 2006^[34]
• Prix Pictet shortlisted artists' work, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, November 2019; then toured to venues in Japan, Switzerland, and Russia, among others^[35]
• Museum of the City of New York, New York City, 2020–2022)^[36]
• Hope, Prix Pictet touring exhibition, Hillside Forum, Tokyo, 2019; ArtLab, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2020; Mouravieff-Apostol House & Museum, Moscow, 2020; Gallery of Photography, Dublin, 2021; Shanghai Centre of Photography, Shanghai, China, 2021; Grimaldi Forum, Monaco, 2021; Eretz Israel Museo, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2021; Palazzo della Gran Guardia, Verona, Italy, 2021^[35]

Awards and honors[edit]

• 2008: River was nominated for the Prix Pictet^{[citation needed]}
• The American Institute of Graphic Arts named Barcelona a recipient of their 50 Books/ 50 Covers Award^[37]
• 2019: Prix Pictet, Shortlist^[1]
• 2017–2019: The Hermitage Artist Retreat, Artist-in-Residence^[38]
• 2013: Burchfield Penney Art Center, Artist-in-Residence ^[32]
• 2013: AIGA, Award^[39]
• 2013: The Cord Prize, Finalist for Walls^[40][41]
• 2009: Santa Fe Prize for Photography, Finalist for Los Jardines de México^[42]
• 2007: Festival International de Mode et de Photographie à Hyères, Finalist^[39][43]
• 2007: PHotoEspaña Descubrimientos, Finalist

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Official website
• Flowers Gallery