Craig Kauffman & Amy Lincoln

Parrasch Heijnen is pleased to present Craig Kauffman / Amy Lincoln, an exhibition pairing new paintings by New York–based artist Amy Lincoln (b. 1981, Bloomington, IN) with select historic sculptures by Craig Kauffman (b. 1932, Los Angeles, CA – 2010, Angeles City, Philippines).

This exhibition brings together two artists deeply engaged with the experience of light and matter as they unfold within a spatial and temporal environment. Distinct in dimensionality, material, and process, both Kauffman and Lincoln treat surface not only as a vehicle for image-making, but as an active site where color and perception converge.

Amy Lincoln applies chromatic pigment in thin, successive layers across carefully ordered divisions of the pictorial plane. Color accumulates gradually, producing subtle tonal shifts and a luminosity that appears to emanate from the panel's surface. Lincoln's studies in chromatic gradation engage surface as both structure and threshold. Although her perceptual landscapes remain distinctly flat, their radiance extends beyond the material presence of each work; her paintings emerging through the interplay and synthesis of tonal variations, evoking the shifting phenomena of light.

Craig Kauffman's biomorphic, vacuum-formed plastic sculptural bubble works from 1968–1969 investigated and transformed surface: each of his wall reliefs pulling outward into physical space. Frequently coated on the interior with acrylic lacquer, Kauffman amplified the translucency of his materials to achieve a luminous radiance, their forms revealing shifting values of color, marking the material inseparable from the environment and the optical experience of the works.

Despite distinct material approaches, Kauffman and Lincoln share aesthetic languages grounded in physical presence while evoking a state of flux through their spatial interplay. Both artists employ a rigorous sense of containment: Lincoln's highly saturated, meticulously controlled imagery constructs an enclosed, artificial world through repeated forms and gradations of color, while Kauffman's sealed plastic sculptures contain color beneath their expanded surfaces. This tension between containment and luminosity heightens the sensation of light and the full chromatic spectrum as they press against the limits of each work's surface.

Amy Lincoln received her MFA from Temple University's Tyler School of Art in 2006 and her BA from University of California, Davis in 2003. Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions including: Fractured Light, The Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY (2026); Amy Lincoln: Monoprints, Main Projects, Richmond, MA (2025); On the Strangest Sea, Sperone Westwater, New York, NY (2024); Radiant Spectrum, Sperone Westwater, New York, NY (2023); Rainbow Sky, Taymour Grahne Projects, London, UK (2022); among others. Lincoln's work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions including Modus Operandi, The School (Jack Shainman Gallery), Kinderhook, NY (2026); Summer House, Pablo's Birthday, New York, NY (2025); Earthbound, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY (2025); Enchanted Lands: Jen Hitchings, Amy Lincoln, Anna Ortiz, Johansson Projects, Oakland, CA (2025); Present '23: Building the Scantland Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH (2023); American Women: The Infinite Journey, Galerie Valerie Bach, Brussels, Belgium (2020); among others. Lincoln has been awarded residencies at the Wave Hill Winter Workspace (Bronx, NY); Inside-Out Art Museum (Beijing, China); and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Swing Space Residency (New York, NY). Her work is in the permanent collections of the Columbus Museum of Art, (Columbus, OH) and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, (Philadelphia, PA). Amy Lincoln is represented by parrasch heijnen, Los Angeles, and Albertz Benda, New York.

Craig Kauffman lived and worked in Los Angeles and Angeles City, Philippines. Kauffman was part of the original artist roster at the renowned Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles in the 1960s. Kauffman's first solo show was held at Felix Landau, Los Angeles' most prominent gallery in 1958. Select solo exhibitions include Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany (2016); Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (2024, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2008); Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA (2008); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (1987); La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA (1981–82). Pace Gallery, New York, NY (1972, 1970, 1969, 1967); and Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (1967, 1965, 1963). Recent group exhibitions include Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany (2025); Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany and The Menil Collection, Houston, TX (both 2023); Copenhagen Contemporary, Denmark (2021); Le Consortium, Dijon, France and Sprüth Magers, London, UK (both 2018); Hall Art Foundation, Reading, VT (2017); Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (2016); Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France (2016, 2006); and Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2023, 2015, 2007, 2000, 1981, 1973). Kauffman's works reside in the public collections of Art Institute of Chicago, IL; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; Tate, London, UK; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; among others.