Life is Short, Art is Long

Life is Short, Art is Long
Sculpture & Works on Paper by Lynn Newcomb

Exhibition: September 27 — November  9
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 27 | 5-7PM

ARTIST STATEMENT

Sculpture

My sculpture is classical in that it is form emphatic.  I draw as a sculptor.  The forgework reflects my involvement with the material aspects of steel.  As in my prints, my work is decidedly non conceptual: the meaning of each form has a direct relationship to how it is physically made.

In recent years, I began to think more volumetrically in sculpture and have moved beyond the linear aspect of forged steel.  My earliest training was in figurative  and portrait sculpture and I am presently working in cast concrete, plaster, and ceramic.  

Works on Paper

Etching 

Etchingis a medium capable of great nuance. Etching is a flexible medium, demonstrating the power and resonance of black ink. I let the plates evolve slowly and they acquire histories – accidents, imperfections, traces where I have reworked the image. My work is classical, in the tradition of Rembrandt, Piranesi, and Degas. I use simple tools. My interest lies in creating what one may call layered prints, prints in which the viewer has the sensation of looking into and through the blacks.  Since 2013 I have also been making lithographs, technically quite a different medium, with its own inherent beauty, although I want to exploit the affinity I am finding between lithographic tusche and liftground technique in etching.

Drawing

Unless it is a meticulous objective description of a “thing”, drawing is the most improvisational form in two dimensional art.  When at their best, my drawings flow and are visual compositions beyond deliberation, evolving from the unconscious, notations of fleeting inarticulate thoughts, runs of inspiration, changes of mind, startings and stoppings.  I try to avoid “afterthink” to “improve” the drawing.