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Lyn Horton
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- artist
- What town do you live in?
- Worthington, MA
- In which disciplines do you work or exhibit?
- Drawing
- Artist Statement/Bio
- Lyn graduated from California Institute of the Arts with a BFA in 1971 and an MFA in 1974. She has studied with the late Douglas Huebler, the late Paul Brach, the late George Miller, Gerald Ferguson, Stephan von Huene and was Executive Assistant to Edwin Schlossberg for ten years.
She has exhibited her work in California, New York and Washington, DC. Since 1970, her art has been in numerous solo exhibits, most recently at the Oresman Gallery of Smith College in Northampton, MA. Her work is in The Sol Lewitt Collection and others throughout the country.
Horton is also a writer. Her writing focuses on creative improvised music and some mainstream jazz. Her writing has been published in Downbeat and regularly finds itself in the Music Diary section of the Jazz Journalists Association webpage, AAJNY, the All About Jazz website and JazzTimes.com.
About her work, she has written:
“No simple explanation for what I do as an artist exists. In fact, any explanation would involve codifying a state of mind, a way of life, a means to see, a principle of understanding, a consciousness of totality.
I can analyze the reasons behind what I do…my intentions…but why do I have to? Any analysis becomes a question of how to comfort the audience by alerting it to what can be perceived in my work without my help. My work tells the tale that is as much about the viewer as it is about me. My work invites the viewer to come in and be exposed to its energy and to discover all aspects of what is seen, to be placed in another dimension, which is neither flat nor three-dimensional, to be without history, to disappear in body, to focus the mind, to rest the soul, to transcend the “it-ness” of the work’s materiality and bond with the eternal, which, I, as the artist, can only indicate.
Moments are fleeting. We know we have been through them because we somehow make memories of them. Yet, it is for this reason that I imagine my memories so that you can look at those imaginations in proximity to an immutable, timeless, indescribable holiness that takes me through this life.”
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- http://lynhorton.net/
My work is all I know how to do. It is how I begin the day five days a week, most every week. It is my job. Writing about it, means going around it, to it, in and out of it, through it. Because nothing that is not the work can elucidate how the work is.
The appearance of the imagery these days (2009) represents a culmination of the constant dismissal of what I believe is unnecessary. As if to boil what is perceivable down to its most essential. And even after stepping into that essence, there is no doubt that I will discover new essences. Essences never cancel out those from which they derived. They only become more essential. The work's present simplicity expresses an essence, one that would not have risen out of the morass of the past, had I not chosen to dispense with all that I deemed useless for its evolution.
My art is always revealing itself to me. If I am not paying attention, I cannot let the work grow through my interaction with it. My interaction with it combines instinctual and innate decisions I make with the activity of process to change directions: sometimes, to turn the work upside down conceptually and, other times, to continue to move forward using the same motif, as in an ostinato.
The personality of my work is consistently unrelenting. Not to prove a point but to find peace.
And in the emptiness that is my mind is the gratifying fullness of the experience of what I do.
copyright 2009 Lyn Horton
The appearance of the imagery these days (2009) represents a culmination of the constant dismissal of what I believe is unnecessary. As if to boil what is perceivable down to its most essential. And even after stepping into that essence, there is no doubt that I will discover new essences. Essences never cancel out those from which they derived. They only become more essential. The work's present simplicity expresses an essence, one that would not have risen out of the morass of the past, had I not chosen to dispense with all that I deemed useless for its evolution.
My art is always revealing itself to me. If I am not paying attention, I cannot let the work grow through my interaction with it. My interaction with it combines instinctual and innate decisions I make with the activity of process to change directions: sometimes, to turn the work upside down conceptually and, other times, to continue to move forward using the same motif, as in an ostinato.
The personality of my work is consistently unrelenting. Not to prove a point but to find peace.
And in the emptiness that is my mind is the gratifying fullness of the experience of what I do.
copyright 2009 Lyn Horton
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