Fiona Connor & Alan Lynch

For over two decades, Fiona Connor (b. 1981, Auckland, New Zealand) has evolved a sculptural language that unsettles objects and environments by reproducing them. Her practice has continually invested in sculpture as a site where the formal, social, psychological and discursive properties of objects can be newly animated and observed.

Select solo exhibitions include: Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf; SculptureCenter, New York; Secession, Vienna; MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles; Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth. Select public collections include: Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Auckland; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne; Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle; and Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, among others.

Alan Lynch was born in San Francisco in 1926 and died in the same city in 1994, having lived at various times in Cadaqués, Kyoto, London, Los Angeles, Mexico City, and Paris. Active and influential amongst various West Coast artistic circles, Lynch’s practice was characterized by a distillation of wide philosophical and reverential systems. His expressive and idiosyncratic paintings contributed to the Minimalist grammar of post-World War II American art, marked by an avowal to articulate transcendental phenomena through distinctly material and ocular means.

While Lynch's public exhibition history spanned just over a decade, during this time his work was exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Pasadena Art Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Crocker Art Museum, Ferus Gallery and Dilexi Gallery. The final occasion Lynch would exhibit new work was in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s 1969 biennial exhibition Contemporary American Painting. For the remaining 25 years of his life, Lynch’s practice would remain private and devotional by choice, executed solely in dialogue with—and often simultaneous to—his own meditative and philosophical activities.

Special thanks to S& Projects.