A solo exhibition of paintings and monoprints
The gallery is delighted to present Peter Lynch’s solo exhibition ‘as if something might be expected of me’
Lynch presents a selection of new monoprints and paintings developed over the past several years. Lynch (b. 1971, UK) began formulating his idiosyncratic approach to abstraction in the early 1990s while studying at the Glasgow School of Art under the guidance of artists such as Callum Innes and alongside notable students Hayley and Sue Tompkins and Jim Lambie. There, he discovered an abiding interest in the principles of painting, exploring color/non-color, and probing the space between tactility and translucency.
He continued his education at Goldsmiths, University of London, taught by the likes of Michael Craig-Martin and Terry Atkinson. Lynch explains the conceptual underpinnings that continue to inform his practice: “This history [of painting] is not a development that is particularly linear; instead, I think it is very circular. My work relates back to previous generations in a circular, forward-looking process.”
Returning to Glasgow as an Artist-in-Residence in 2000, Lynch embarked on his interrogation of the painterly object and surface by means of bodily gesture, with rhythmic, sensual zips of the artist’s finger tracing and erasing the very structure of the grid itself.
“The production of a painting is never linear; it meanders, hitting obstacles along the way.
The final painting, with its many layers, gives evidence of such a journey. ”
PETER LYNCH + ELISSA GOLDSTONE IN DIALOGUE
