Gavin Lynch
Untitled (Himalaya)
oil on canvas / 77" x 63"
The insistence of using paint over technology at once acts as a reaffirmation of the critical potential of painting as a medium while engaging in a dialogue concerning the role of contemporary painting in an increasingly digital world. While my paintings are presented to the audience as a means of re-contemplating or even re-contextualizing the original source material, the original should nonetheless not be taken as inspirational material but rather simply as an integral and questionable piece of the overarching art historical puzzle.