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K a t hr y n Ly nc h


17 September — 01 November 2026

K a t hr y n Ly n c h S e e in g S ile n c e

MAYA FRODEMAN GALLERY


S e e in g S ile n c e Seeing

Silence

reflects

Kathryn

painting

as

Lynch’s

that are elusive yet deeply felt. Silence, for her,

a

wordless

creates space for what cannot be fully explained

observation,

intuition,

or fully known, allowing intuition and possibility

and feeling take precedence over language.

to take precedence over language. Rather than

understanding

of

realm—one

which

in

offering a fixed meaning, the paintings invite the Lynch’s paintings begin with something real:

viewer into their own quiet exchange. Lynch hopes

a landscape, a street, a ship, a face. Her

they can exist beyond a particular time or place,

paintings move between the observed and the

speaking to the shared experience of being alive.

imagined, fleeting

transforming moments

into

specific

places

atmospheric

and

images

Kathryn

Lynch

was

born

and

raised

in

that feel at once familiar and elusive. “I am

Philadelphia. She received her undergraduate

painting the poetry of place rather than the

degree from William Smith College in Geneva,

place,” Lynch says. “It’s a boat anywhere, it’s a

NY, and an MFA at the University of Pennsylvania

sky for everyone. It’s nowhere and everywhere.”

in 1990. She was awarded the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Painting in 2018. She has been

Lynch responds to the world around her, allowing

invited to Skowhegan, Yaddo, The Marie Walsh

each painting to develop through an intuitive

Foundation and The Vermont Studio Center.

exchange between herself and the canvas. She

Since earning her MFA, Lynch has been in

does not begin with a predetermined outcome.

numerous solo and group exhibitions in the US

Instead,

and abroad. Her works are in the permanent

each

work

demands

something

different, and she follows the painting until the

collections

conversation is finished. The process can be

Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA and Fort

of

the

University

of

California

quick or painstaking and is anything but passive.

Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN, as well as

Lynch describes it less as meditation than as

many corporate collections, including Microsoft,

giving birth—a sustained effort to bring the

Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, and the Millennium

canvas to life, to make it breathe on its own.

Art Collection in the Ritz Carlton, Battery Park, in NYC. The artist lives in Catskill, NY, and works

Across landscapes and portraits, Lynch distills moments of everyday experience into paintings

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in a curated artist campus called Foreland.


Lynch in her studio


Portrait of an Artist , 2025 Oil on linen 30 x 24 inches

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Thinking , 2026 Oil on linen 70 x 63 inches

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Pond , 2025 Oil on linen 70 x 63 inches

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Moon , 2025 Oil on linen 63 x 60 inches

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Harvest Moon , 2025 Oil on linen 63 x 60 inches

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Road to Mountains , 2025 Oil on linen 53 x 48 inches

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Pathway , 2025 Oil on linen 53 x 48 inches

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Pink Window , 2024 Oil on linen 53 x 48 inches

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Sun Over Two Trees , 2026 Oil on linen 48 x 36 inches

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Sun Over Bay in the Morning , 2025 Oil on linen 40 x 30 inches

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Sun Over Bay , 2025 Oil on linen 40 x 30 inches

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Dark Sunflowers , 2026 Oil on linen 40 x 30 inches

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Dancing Trees , 2026 Oil on linen 30 x 36 inches

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Sunflowers , 2026 Oil on linen 36 x 30 inches

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Last Dandelion , 2026 Oil on linen 20 x 16 inches

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Sunrise , 2026 Oil on linen 24 x 20 inches

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Early Evening , 2026 Oil on linen 24 x 18 inches

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Night , 2026 Oil on linen 24 x 20 inches

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Wildflowers , 2025 Oil on linen 10 x 8 inches

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Purple Mountain , 2025 Oil on linen 10 x 8 inches

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Flowers from a Friend , 2026 Oil on linen 10 x 10 inches

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S e e in g S ile n c e B y K a t h r y n Ly n c h Come hold my hand And paint along While I record Your silent song

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KATHRYN LYNCH EDUCATION

2014

1983

2013

1991 1990

William Smith College, Geneva, NY Skowhegan, Skowhegan, ME MFA University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2026

2025 2023

2022

2021

2020

2017 2016

2015 48

Seeing Silence, Maya Frodeman Gallery, Jackson Hole, WY Weather, Huxley-Parlour Gallery, London, UK Time Capsules, Sears Peyton Gallery, New York, NY Near and Far, Victoria Munroe Fine Art, New York, NY Elsewhere, The Drawing Room, East Hampton, NY Here Comes the Sun and Other Situations, Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson Hole, WY Restless Nights, Private Public Gallery, Hudson, NY Fields of Time, Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson Hole, WY “City Grit” Project Room, Sears Peyton Gallery, New York, NY Between the Streets, Turn Gallery, Parlour Room, New York, NY Islands, The Drawing Room, East Hampton, NY Kathryn Lynch Recent Works, Zephyr and Maize, St. Petersburg, Russia Far Away Home, Sears Peyton Gallery, New York, NY Hot Days and Nights, Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson Hole, WY Painting Everyday, Spoonbill Studio, curated by Madeleine Mermall, Brooklyn, NY A View of One’s Own, Sears Peyton Gallery, New York, NY Shifting Scenes, Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson Hole, WY Up at Night, Senaspace, New

2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2005 2004 2002 1996

York, NY Maine, Sears Peyton Gallery, New York, NY Tug Tug, Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson Hole, WY A Silent Language, Sears Peyton Gallery, New York, NY la vie en tugboat, Senaspace, New York, NY Big Flowers for the Little Gallery, The Little Gallery, Sharon Springs, NY Dogs, Sears Peyton Gallery, New York, NY River Tugs, Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson Hole, WY Choppy Waters, Sears Peyton Gallery, New York, NY Her Days and Nights, Sears Peyton Gallery, New York, NY ARC LLC Fine Art, Ct. Her Days and Nights, Sears Peyton Gallery, New York, NY Nina Freudenheim, Inc. Buffalo, NY Paintings: The City, Alysia Duckler Gallery, Portland, OR Painting the Town, Victoria Munroe Fine Art, Boston, MA Alysia Duckler Gallery, Portland, OR Project Room, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY

GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2026

2025

2024

Rare Earth, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Impact Festival with _ Collaborations, Copenhagen _collaborations, Night Breed, Copenhagan Passengers, Turn Gallery, New York, NY In Light of Present Boundaries, Teffiaprimary, Kingston, NY Littoral Zone Margins of Light, LaLoma Gallery/ WorkingLoose, Blue Hill, ME Luminal, Victoria Munroe Fine Art, NYC Inherent Nature, Maya Frodeman Gallery, curated by Kathryn Lynch, Jackson Hole, WY A Particular Kind of Heaven, Karma Gallery, Thomaston,


2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

ME Marquee Projects, Cereal Isle, Bellport, NY In Full Bloom, ARC Fine Art LLC, Fairfield, CT Holiday, Art Sales and Research, Clinton Corners, NY The Mirror Blue Night, Undercroft Gallery, curated by Patrick Neal, New York, NY Sun to Moon, Turn Gallery, New York, NY I am curious (blue), mepaintsme, Online HumDrum, CCA Aandratx, Andratx, Spain Chasing Light, MyPetRam, Santa Barbara, CA Light and Graphite, Studio E, Seattle, WA Summer Joy, Art Sales and Research, Clinton Corners, NY Snow Day, The Drawing Room, East Hampton, NY A Celebration of Trees, Southampton Arts Center, Southampton, NY The Container Garden, Sears Peyton Gallery, New York, NY Landscape and Memory, Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, NY 95 North, Private Public Gallery, Hudson NY Sears Peyton Gallery, Dallas Art Fair Unconquerable Women, Marthas Contemporary, Austin, TX Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson NY “All small” 8 artists Nocturnes: The Nighttime Landscapes, The Empty Circle, Brooklyn, Color Forms, curated by Michael Klein, Red Barn, Stanfordville, NY New York Just Like I Pictured It, Platform Projects, Brooklyn, NY Sears Peyton Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Stars in Our Pocket, Turn Gallery, New York, NY The Drawing Room Gallery, Winter Salon, East Hampton, NY

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

The Spirit of Place, The Drawing Room Gallery, East Hampton, NY Dogs, Ille Arts, Amagansett, NY Sears Peyton Gallery, Los Angeles, CA In My Garden, Michael Klein, New York, NY Sears Peyton Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Spring Installation, The Drawing Room, Easthampton, NY Eyes of the East End, Arc Fine Art LLC, Fairfield, CT The Gallery@1Gap, Brooklyn, NY Autumn Salon, The Drawing Room, Easthampton, NY Drishti: A Concentrated Gaze, 1285 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY City Lives, Shirley Fiterman Center, curated by Michael Klein, New York, NY Sara Nightingale, Watermill, NY Making History at Storefront Ten Eyck Gallery, Arts in Bushwick Metro Art Fair, Michael Klein Arts, New York, NY Animalia, Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, CT Southampton Art Fair, Michael Klein Arts, Southampton, NY Summer Group Show, Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson Hole, WY Landfall Press, Miami Art Fair, Miami, FL Red Dot Fair, Miami, FL Aspects of a New Realism, Arthur Rodger Gallery, curated by Michael Klein, New Orleans, LA Black and White, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY Incongruent Sum, 111 Leroy Street, New York, NY Super Nature, 4North Gallery, Southampton, NY Pulse Art Fair, Sears Peyton Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Summer Group Show, Sears Peyton Gallery, New York, NY 49


2010

2008 2007

2003 2002

2001

2000 1999

1996

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Bedlam, Bank Iran, 111 Leroy Street, New York, NY Pretty Vacant, Brooklyn Art Studios and Yashar Gallery, Gowanus, NY The Big Show, Marsden Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY Johnnie Boden, Sag Harbor, NY Sweetness & Light and Where There’s Smoke, UMass Amherst Fine Arts Center, Hampden Gallery, Amherst, MA The Big Apple, Ken Jones Jr. Fine Art, Easton, PA Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY Recent History, Jan Abrams Fine Arts, works of the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s selected by Michael Klein, New York, NY New Works on Paper, Victoria Munroe Fine Art, Boston, MA Catch a Fish, Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, East Hampton, NY ‘Artists to Artists’ A Decade of the Space Program, Ace Gallery, New York, NY Beyond the Mountains, the Contemporary American Landscape, curated by Michael Klein, traveled to Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA; Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI; Polk Art Museum, Lakeland, FL; Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID; Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, TN; Lyman Allyn Museum of Art at Connecticut College, New London, CT New Talent, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA Emerging Artists, Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, East Hampton, NY 24/7, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY Kathryn Lynch, Project Room, Charles Cowles, New York, NY Of Land and Sea, Elaine Benson, Bridge Hampton, NY New Talent, New Ideas, Charles Cowles Gallery, New

1995

1993

1992

1991 1990

York, NY Five Artists Over Five Decades, William Smith College, Geneva, NY New Work, Black & Greenberg Gallery, New York, NY New Painting, Cherry Stone Gallery, Wellfleet, MA Five Women Painters, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY Paterson Museum, Paterson, NJ New Generation Artists, Cherry Stone Gallery, Wellfleet, MA New Faces-New Energy, Frick Gallery, Belfast, ME 56th National Midyear Exhibition, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH Thirty-Third Juried Exhibition, Parrish Art Museum, New York, NY Fifteenth Annual Small Works, 80 Washington Square East Gallery, New York, NY Artists of West Philadelphia, Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA Inhabited Places, University City Arts League Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES 2022 2021 2018

2009 1997 1995 1994

VCCA in France, Avuilar Residency, France Edgewood Farm, Truro, MA Skowhegan Alumni Residency, Skowhegan, ME NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow Award Foundation Valparaiso Residency, October 16-30th, Spain Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, November 9th December 6th, VA Spain Residency, October 2009, Joya: arte & eclologia: losqazquez Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation, New York, NY The Millay Colony, Austerlitz, NY


1993 1991 1989

The Vermont Center, Johnson, VT Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Fellowship Award from University of Pennsylvania to Vermont Studio Center

CORPORATE AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

2014 2013 2013

Fort Wayne Museum of art, Fort Wayne, IN University of California Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA Microsoft, Redmond, WA Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, NJ Johnson & Johnson, Princeton, NJ Progressive Corporation, Cleveland, OH Pfizer, New York, NY Millenium Art Collection, Ritz Carlton, Battery Park City, NYC Wellington Art Collection

2013

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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2018

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2014 2014

2014

Curtiss, Julie Tuyet. ArtMaze Magazine, Issue 23. Neal, Patrick. “Kathryn Lynch: Allusive Places.” Two Coats of Paint, March 24, 2021. Landes, Jennifer. “Winter Romp Drawing Room.” Easthampton Star. Landes, Jennifer. “Spring Sneaks into the Drawing Room.” Easthampton Star, April 17, 2018. McConnel, Samantha. “Pure and Simple, Shelter Island Artist.” Hamptons Real Estate Magazine. Segal, Mark. “An Artist at the Mercy of Her Subjects.” The Easthampton Star, June 1, 2015. Strasnick, Stephanie. “Kathryn Lynch at Sears Peyton.” ARTnews, February 2014. Bunting, Chris. “3 Must-Attend NYC Art and Antique Fairs.” New York Post, January 22, 2014. Dabkowski, Colin. “Echoes of Kathryn Lynch on a Philly Street.” The Gusto Blog, The Buffalo News, January 21,

2011

2011 2009

2004 2000

1999 1999

1992 1992

1990

2014. “Kathryn Lynch: Interview.” Painter’s Table via Guernica Magazine, January 2014. Rae, Haniya. “Paint and Die Happy.” Guernica, December 16, 2013. Lee, Jonathan. “Kathryn Lynch’s Flower Paintings.” New American Paintings, December 11, 2013. Turcihin, Olya. “Tugboats to My Heart.” Arte Fuse, November 18, 2013. Niner, Katy. “Artists Subsume Imagery Within Layers of Materials.” Jackson Hole News, December 2011. Freudenheim, Nina. “Black & White Exhibit.” ArtVoice, Buffalo, NY. Egan, Maura. “Kathryn Lynch.” Elle Decor Magazine, June 2009. “Kathryn Lynch at Nina Freudenheim.” Buffalo Rising Magazine, 2007. McQuaid, Cate. “Painting the Town.” The Boston Globe, May 28, 2004. Bookhardt, D. Eric. “The Mountain Within.” Gambit Weekly, Inside Art, New Orleans, LA, February 2000. Braff, Phyllis. “Emerging Artists.” New York Times, Long Island, June 6, 1999. Braff, Phyllis. “Up-to-Date Ideas from Emerging Talents.” New York Times, Long Island, May 2, 1999. Lipson, Karin. “Jury’s Verdict, Quantity, Quality.” Newsday, May 8, 1992. Braff, Phyllis. “Testimony to Magic of Gifted Installation.” New York Times, Long Island, May 24, 1992. Rice, Robin. “West Philly Artists Paint the Bride.” University City Review, Philadelphia, PA, April 1990.

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This catalog complements Kathryn Lynch’s exhibition Seeing Silence Maya Frodeman Gallery 17 September - 01 November 2026

Images courtesy of the artist © Kathryn Lynch

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