A series of atmospheric communication systems that transmit and receive opposite perspectives. Mostly expansive horizontal diptychs, they are composed of location and materiality. Contextually, they address contemporary concerns.
Marlette Road
Oil on Baltic Birch
104 In. Wide by 24 In. High
Cleveland Street At Dusk
Oil on Baltic Birch
4 Ft. Wide by 25 In. High
‘S’ Turn, Harsens Island
Oil on Baltic Birch
83 In. Wide by 20 In. High
Restless Heart
Oil on Baltic Birch
72 In. Wide by 18 In. High
Lipstick On The Pig, Kercheval and Crane
Oil on Baltic Birch
20 In. Wide by 20 In. High
Pontiac Morning Fog
Oil on Baltic Birch
3.5 Ft. Wide by 20 In. High
56 Second Weather Weather Change
24 Inches Wide by 24 Inches High
Oil On Baltic Birch
I-75 Roscommon I
Oil on Baltic Birch
85 Inches. Wide by 20 In. High
Northbound I-75
Oil on Baltic Birch
5 Ft. Wide by 20 In. High
I-75 Roscommon II
Oil on Baltic Birch
85 In. Wide by 20 In. High
Ice Storm In July
Oil on Baltic Birch
2 Ft. Wide by 12 In. High
Old State Road
Oil on Baltic Birch
3 Ft. Wide by 1 Ft. High
A series of paintings honoring some of the many overlooked, hard working people of the world.
Un-Sustainable Living Detail
4 Feet Wide by 4 Feet High
Oil On Baltic Birch
Un-Sustainable Living
4 Feet Wide by 4 Feet High
Oil On Baltic Birch
Sustainable Living Detail
4 Feet Wide by 4 Feet High
Oil On Baltic Birch
Sustainable Living
4 Feet Wide by 4 Feet High
Oil On Baltic Birch
Javier Detai
5 Feet Wide by 5 Feet High
Oil On Baltic Birch
Javier
5 Feet Wide by 5 Feet High
Oil On Baltic Birch
A series of paintings composed of exaggerated imagery, chosen as metaphor, addressing contemporary concerns. Our educational systems, environmental pollutants, and creating art in the 21st Century name a few. Color, scale, paint methodology are the players.
Pure Hope & Can You Hear It Now?
Oil on Canvas
5 Ft. Wide by 6 Ft. High
Pure Hope
Oil on Canvas
5 Ft. Wide by 6 Ft. High
Pure Hope (detail)
Oil on Canvas
5 Ft. Wide by 6 Ft. High
Can You Hear It Now?
Oil on Canvas
5 Ft. Wide by 6 Ft. High
Can You Hear It Now? (detail)
Oil on Canvas
5 Ft. Wide by 6 Ft. High
All the research for this series was done on location. They are aesthetic visual weights, atmospheric balances between harmony and content, addressing the energy and tension of light and color. The color of heat, dampness, and cold all play an important role.
Light Aspects Florence
5.5 feet wide by 6.5 feet wide
oil on linen
(Images 1 to 6)
”Light Aspects Venice
5.5 feet wide by 6.5 feet wide
oil on linen
(Images 7 to 11)
Heartland USA
graphite and gouache on mylar
Antique Milking Stanchion
4 feet wide by 1 foot high by 5 inches deep
Plumbed Again
graphite
antique plumb line
1 foot wide by 4 feet high
Bullet Loader
graphite
antique bullet loader
6 inches wide by 20 inches high
Tools
graphite and gouache on mylar
industrial antique plumbing fixture
8 inches round
Grape, Toy Plane, Feather
graphite and gouache on mylar
Industrial Antique Plumbing Fixture
3 inches wide by 6 inches high
Calla Lily, Winton, Pencil
graphite and gouache on mylar
Industrial Antique Electrical Fixture
3 inches wide by 6 inches high
“ONSTAR: BERLIN” is a mixed media installation: oil paint, graphite, digital image and appropriated antiques. The palette is both saturated and not. All panels are fabricated in a modular format of an underlying grid system based on the Golden Mean. They hang not on a common height-line, but on a single, contextual eye-level-horizon. Images include a larger than life face, target bulls eye, digital finger print, antique plumb-line (actual object), digital white rose, North Bellaire Palace Museum in Vienna (visited during a 150 mile an hour wind storm), and graffiti from what is left standing of the Berlin Wall.
It’s impetus is the observation of an elementary class viewing art while visiting the Brussels Museum of Fine Art. The class and its instructors/chaperones are silently listening to a gallery docent discuss a painting based on The Rape of the Sabine Woman, a subject matter that has been the focus of numerous famous pieces of art throughout Western art history. The palette of “Ambivalence” is Baroque, painted in 20th c. American muscular brush stroke.
The medium is hybrid. Each painting is wrapped in multi paneled pieces created from a variety of ordinary discarded ‘junk’ material: scrap wood, pcv pipes, plastic garbage, glue, paint, gold leaf, chalk board, trinkets, trash and discarded plastic toys. The cluttered, overdone look references the exaggerated tension, the exuberance and grandeur of Baroque art. Many of the finishes are done in faux-gold-leaf. They evoke ancient religious ornaments, cosmic harmony and a balance between heaven and earth.
“1000 MISSED DIALOGUES” is a 50 foot modular painting of strangers, video cameras, art monographs, art history texts, art theory essays, and falling flowers. Contextually, the viewer immediately deduces the “scheme” or model of 1000 to be merely a series of larger than life portraits. Upon closer observation, a visual transition takes place: the viewer — standing, observing, staring back at the painting — moving the eye across the surface possibly in a non-linear manner — literally becomes the primary content of the piece.
“Architect” preserves snippets of claustrophobic city constructs with center plazas (the happy, the sad, the sick, residents and vacationers, the young and the senior citizen) in paint. The direction of each gaze and the tight crop of each independent composition are sandwiched between chalkboards on Cartesian measures, panoptic architecture, academic notes on the five levels of paranoia and hypnotic optic images.
This mixed media installationis composed of paintings, drawings and chalkboards. Modular in nature, this piece can hang on a continuous horizontal line or within a panoptic inclosure. A panoptic inclosure places the viewer in the center and addresses the power of image, space, and environment.
A series of mostly graphite drawings on archival acid free lithograph paper (unless otherwise noted). Some incorporate paint, gold leaf and automotive spray paint. Images are drawn from still life set-ups, digital documentation, research notes, and object appropriation.
Zena’s Song
Graphite
3 feet square
Water Song
Graphite
3 feet square
History of Clean Wate
Graphite and Gold Leaf
3 feet square
H2o, Commodity or Human Right
Graphite
3 feet square
Moving To Zanzabar
Graphite
3 feet square
Art of Negotiation I
Graphite
3 feet square
Art of Negotiation II
Graphite
3 feet square
Life of an Adjunct
Graphite
3 feet square
Encantada
Graphite, Paint, Colored Pencil
3 feet square
Just Ducky
Graphite, Paint, Colored Pencil, Collage
4 feet wide by 5 feet high
Pontificating About Nothing
Graphite, Gold Leaf
4 feet wide by 5 feet high
Art of Negotiation III
Graphite
3 feet square
Lies, Falsehoods, Contradictions”
Graphite, Car Paint, Colored Pencil
4 feet wide by 5 feet high
Pony Boy
Graphite, Gold Leaf, Colored Pencil
4 feet wide by 5 feet high
Transmission
Graphite, Gold Leaf, Colored Pencil
4 feet wide by 5 feet high
Still Life With Gloves
Graphite on Mylar
4 feet square
Tom
Graphite
4 feet wide by 5 feet high
Clean Air, Commodity or Human Right
Graphite
4 feet square
Self Portra
Graphite
6 feet wide by 4 feet high
Spawn
Graphite
3 feet wide by 4 feet high
High Heal, Drill, Cloth on Mirror
Graphite
4 feet square
Perro Negro
oil on recycled scrap wood
4 feet by 5 feet
I Don’t Care If It Rains Or Freezes
As Long As I Have My Plastic Jesus”
oil on plaster on Baltic birch
5 feet by 4 feet
Michigan White detail
oil on wood
semi-truck tire treads
5 feet by 6 feet
Michigan White
oil on wood
semi-truck tire treads
5 feet by 6 feet
Resurrection of the Retina
oil on plaster on Baltic birch
5 feet by 5 feet
Totem
Encaustic on canvas
Diptych
2 feet wide by 6 feet high
Single Hand Shooter
graphite and oil on plaster on Baltic birch
4 feet by 4 feet
Trout Fly
oil on canvas
Diptych: total measure 6 feet by 6 feet
Flying Brook Trout
oil on canvas
Diptych: total measure 6 feet by 6 feet
Still Life with Fish
oil on canvas
6 feet by 2 .5 feet
A selected list of exhibitions can be found under Exhibition List. Images shown here are from the following shows:
1. & 2.
“Lynn Galbreath – Conversations”
The Robinson Gallery
Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center
Birmingham, MI
3. & 4.
“Mind Games”
Gallery Project
Ann Arbor, MI
5.
“Faux Real”
Gallery Project
Ann Arbor, MI
6.
“Stretch The Stranglehold”
Gallery 555
Detroit, MI
7. & 8.
“Lynn Galbreath Retrospective”
University Liggett School
Grosse Pointe, MI
9. & 10.
”Lynn Galbreath and Andrea Eis”
MaryGrove Art Gallery
MaryGrove University
Detroit, Michigan
11.
“Femmes Detroit”
Cerres Gallery
Chelsea, New York
12. & 13.
”Lynn Galbreath and Connie Samaras”
The Willis Gallery
Detroit, Michigan
14.
“New Talent”
Detroit Artist’s Market
Detroit, Michigan
