In 1974, I received my MFA at the California Institute of the Arts. However, even though I was represented in LA by a prominent gallery with several shows under my belt, I left the West Coast to marry, live in Massachusetts and raise my son. I worked briefly as an art instructor at a local community college but was always a mother and artist and housewife. Between 1988 and 2002, I also installed and worked with designers of exhibits in the art museums in this area: MASSMoCA, the Clark Art Institute, The Berkshire Museum, and the Williams College Museum of Art.
In the 70s, Max Protetch represented me both in Washington, DC, and New York. That relationship concluded, however. As a result of my own representation in the 1980s and early ’90s, my work was exhibited often in the NE. I received local grants to do a photographic piece for the town in which I lived and to execute a bronze sculpture installed in Pittsfield, MA, in the exterior “sitting area” of the Lichtenstein Center for the Arts.
Between 1996 and 2012, I wrote about jazz and creative improvised music for top online and print magazines and my own writing blog. Since 2017, I have written about painters and ceramic artists and their exhibits for an online magazine out of NYC.
My work is in the collections of the Sol LeWitt Foundation, Georgetown University, and the Sidwell Friends School as well as many private collections. My drawings have also been chosen as covers for recordings and by prize-winning interior designers to be featured in their house designs and in promotional layouts for print magazines.
My work has been exhibited in solo and group shows in Europe, California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and in Albany and New York City, NY. Some shows produced catalogs in which my work is featured.
In 2023, an installation work, Syntactical Shifts, was shown at Installation Space on Eagle St in North Adams, MA.
In 2024, I spent a week in residency at the studio of Sol LeWitt. The work produced is shown here.
I have been working assiduously on mixed media series, images of which have been posted on my website here, here, and here.
I am a member of ecoartspace, a group of over 1000 members whose work concentrates on our earth and the expressions concerning environmental crises.
Media Gallery
This is a detail of the last of the three Grasses drawings. It is done with white colored pencil and market on black rag paper.Lyn Horton This drawing incorporates imagery derived first from a studio photograph of apple tree branches and secondly from a desire to weave the kind of lines I used to draw into the entire scheme. The closing motif emanates from Japanese woodblock prints.Lyn HortonThis drawing was done during a month-long residency at Future Lab[s] Gallery on Eagle Street in North Adams, Massachusetts. It is the second time I have been able to do a wall drawing on this scale.Truanna Salmeron and Lyn HortonThis photograph shows a view from the entrance of the gallery. Part of a large drawing is seen on the right; several hanging sculptures are seen in the center; multiple small drawings and scrolls are on the wall and floor. Lyn HortonSince moving to North Adams, I have focused on photographing in my studio. I cover a table there with an array of leaf cuttings and fallen petals. These forms become a challenging way to examine their relationship in a two dimensions.Lyn HortonI spent over a year taking 207 photographs in my studio to bring the outside inside and use natural forms as my drawing material.Lyn HortonThis series of 6 mixed media pieces combines drawing and a photographic image on one page. The photographs are from the Leaves and Flowers series.The first one was the most difficult to do. Lyn HortonThis image shows my penchant for some detail in rendering form seen in the photograph from which I am taking cues for which forms to repeat.Lyn HortonThis image shows 4 completed drawings during my week long residency in Sol LeWitt's studio in Chester, CT. The marks and drips from the times Sol painted on this end wall frame my drawings beautifully. My drawings are square.Lyn Horton
