CALIFORNIA: All Media Juried Exhibition Guest Curated by Ruth Braunstein, owner & Shannon Trimble, director, of the Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco – www.bquayartgallery.com August 30 – September 24, 2010 Reception: Sunday, September 12, 3:00-5:00pm

"Leaving Space" ©Stephen Lynch

Artist Statement

My art is an act of integration & contemplation.

Integration of materials: new & recycled. I recycle wine foils & found objects, use fresh encaustic wax, carve discarded wood, and build frames with materials at hand.

Integration of ideas: old symbols and new concepts. I have always found iconography fascinating, but disliked what I saw as hierarchical use of materials & subject matter. I have preferred the circle to the ladder.

I try to incorporate a wabi-sabi aesthetic: “a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete.”

I work toward the integration of disciplines: science, religion and art. I deplore the isolation of specialization. Cross-pollination is essential.

—Stephen Lynch

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• Artists, Art
• People of Santa Cruz
• Tannery Arts Center

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