Holly Lynton Explained

Holly Lynton
Birth Place:Boulder, Colorado, U.S.
Education:BA, Yale University; MFA, Bard College
Known For:Photography
Notable Works:Bare Handed

Holly Lynton (born 1972) is an American photographer based in Massachusetts. Her portraits of modern rural communities and agrarian laborers in America have been exhibited both nationally and abroad.

Early life and education

Born in Boulder, Colorado in 1972, Lynton attended Yale University, where she majored in psychology and studied photography under Lois Conner and Tod Papageorge.[1] After graduating with a BA in Psychology in 1994, Lynton went on to receive an MFA in Photography from Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College in 2000.

Career

Lynton's work has explored themes concerning human relationships, religion/spirituality, and natural environments, while her aesthetic has been described as evoking a dream-like perspective.[2] [3] In 2000, her first solo exhibition In Between was presented by the Kathryn Markel Fine Arts Gallery in New York City; the series depicts fragmented images that together form a visual narrative of Lynton, her husband, and an older man engaging in child-like play outdoors amidst the tension of ambiguous relationships.[4] [5]

Since then, Lynton's photographs have been exhibited both nationally and internationally [6] and can be found in the collections of the Lowe Art Museum at the University of Miami, the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona, The Fidelity Collection, and the Yale University Art Gallery.[7]

One of Lynton's best known works is Bare Handed, a series exploring the spiritual connection between man and nature through the perspective of “rural communities struggling to maintain their agrarian traditions and natural resources despite the challenges of globalization, competing technology, agribusiness, and even weather.”[8] In 2008, Lynton was inspired to develop Bare Handed after photographing a New Mexico beekeeper and his apprentice handling a swarm without protective gear.[9] In reference to Lynton's image "Stephen, Mayflies, Oklahoma, 2009," Adam Monohan, curator for Center for Creative Photography in Arizona, has stated: "Like Weston, Holly Lynton takes rural life as her subject in this photograph. Made in the context of the artist’s Bare Handed series, a sweeping chronicle concentrating on the connection between humans and their natural environment, the photograph presents a vision of the rural South that is refreshingly free from common visual tropes.”[10] The images in Bare Handed have also been compared to photography of the Depression-era,[11] when the Farm Security Administration hired photographers to document the economic devastation experienced by poor famers. Lynton has stated she intentionally sought to contrast those “historical images of hardship” produced by the FSA by instead depicting American agricultural workers engaged in reverent, mutually beneficial relationships with their environment.[12] In 2013 one of the images from Bare Handed, "Turkey Madonna," was awarded first prize in the Syngenta Photography Award Open Competition for its exploration of the tension between rural and urban environments.[13] That same year, Lynton's work on Bare Handed was also recognized by the Mass Cultural Council with an Artist Fellowship Award for Photography.[14] In 2016, she was honored with an Individual Photographer's Fellowship from the Aaron Siskind Foundation.[15]

Since 2017, Lynton has been working on a new series titled Under the Brush Arbor, which examines the modern legacy of Methodist camp meetings in South Carolina; the title is a reference to the practice of brush arbour revivals. In support of her adjacent research exploring the origins of and the Civil War's influence on Methodist camp meetings, Lynton was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University in 2019.[16]

In addition to her photography work, Lynton has served as a visiting instructor at Amherst College in Massachusetts[17] and on the faculty of Maine Media Workshops + College.[18] She has given lectures and artist talks for numerous venues, including the Williston Northampton School,[19] the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center,[20] and Yale University.[21] Her images and essays have appeared in publications such as The New Yorker,[22] [23] Southern Cultures,[24] Oxford American,[25] and Gravy (Southern Foodways Alliance),[26] among others.

Selected awards and fellowships

Selected solo exhibitions

Selected group exhibitions

External links

Notes and References

  1. Holly Lynton Insight . Image Source.
  2. Aletti. Vincent. 23 October 2006. Review:Solid Ground. The New Yorker.
  3. Web site: Sisson . Molly . Holly Lynton "In-Between" . Fisheye Magazine . November 24, 2017 . 8 July 2021.
  4. News: Art Guide . 8 July 2021 . The New York Times . 21 April 2000.
  5. News: Aletti . Vince . Voices Choice Short List . The Village Voice . 25 April 2000 . 84–85.
  6. Web site: LA Noble Gallery . LA Noble Gallery.
  7. Web site: Collections - Photography . Yale University Art Gallery.
  8. Web site: Artist Profile - Holly Lynton: In the Wild . ArtSake . February 24, 2014 . Mass Cultural Council . 8 July 2021.
  9. Web site: Triggered . Musée Magazine . June 8, 2021 . 8 July 2021 .
  10. Book: Hodermarsky . Elisabeth . On the Basis of Art: 150 Years of Women at Yale . 2021 . Yale University Press . 978-0-300-25424-2 . 242 . Holly Lynton.
  11. News: McQuaid . Cate . Agrarian labors with biblical passion at Miller Yezerski . 8 July 2021 . Boston Globe . 17 June 2014.
  12. Kingsley . Kory Jean . holly lynton . aint– bad.
  13. Web site: Winners 2012-2013 . Syngenta Photo . 8 July 2021.
  14. Web site: Artist Fellowships . Mass Cultural Counsel . Mass Cultural Council.
  15. Web site: 6 Photographers Named 2016 Aaron Siskind Fellowship Recipients . PDN Pulse. July 21, 2016 .
  16. Web site: GLC Past Fellows . Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale. September 5, 2013 .
  17. Web site: Photography I Course Listing . Amherst College.
  18. Web site: Faculty List - Holly Lynton . Maine Media + College.
  19. Web site: Lawless . Kate . Photographers' Lecture Series Presents Holly Lynton . Williston Northhampton School . 8 July 2021 . 27 March 2019.
  20. Philadelphia Photo Arts Center (producer). 3 December 2020 . Thursday Night Photo Talk w/ Holly Lynton . Videotape . English . 8 July 2021. United States . Philadelphia Photo Arts Center.
  21. Web site: GLC Brown Bag: Holly Lynton, "Faith, Nature, and the Legacies of South Carolina Methodist Camp Meetings" . Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale . June 7, 2018 . 14 July 2021.
  22. Chotiner. Isaac. 6 Feb 2021. Marty Baron Considers His Time at the Washington Post . The New Yorker. New York . Conde Nast. 8 July 2021.
  23. Lach. Eric. 10 April 2021. A Cautionary Tale of Workplace Harassment in the Cuomo Administration . The New Yorker. New York . Conde Nast. 8 July 2021.
  24. Lynton . Holly . 2020. Bare Handed . Southern Cultures. UNC Press. 8 July 2021.
  25. Winkler. Jeff. 5 September 2013. Getaway Blues. Oxford American. Little Rock, Arkansas. The Oxford Literary Project, Inc.. 8 July 2021.
  26. Lynton. Holly. 2019. The Spirit and the Food Feeds Them. Gravy (Southern Foodways Alliance). Oxford, MS. University of Mississippi. 8 July 2021.
  27. Web site: Top 50 - Critical Mass 2021 . photolucinda . January 29, 2014 . 10 September 2021.
  28. Web site: Critical Mass 2020 Finalists Announced . Photolucinda . August 10, 2020 .
  29. Web site: Winners & Finalists . Syngenta . 8 July 2021.
  30. Web site: Previous Exhibitions . Filter Photo.
  31. Web site: Past Exhibitions . Dina Mitrani Gallery.
  32. Web site: Artist Talk with Holly Lynton . Yale Club of Cape Code . 20 Aug 2021.
  33. Web site: In Conversation With The Land with Curator Karen Haas 9/3 - 12/31 . Center for Fine Art Photographer . 20 Aug 2021.
  34. Web site: group show 68 Four Degrees: About the Artists . Humble Arts Foundation . 20 Aug 2021.
  35. Web site: UnBound10! . Candela . 8 July 2021.
  36. Web site: Photographers . We Feed the World . January 29, 2018 . The Gaia Foundation . 8 July 2021.
  37. Web site: Animal as Metaphor . Howard Yerzerski Gallery . July 7, 2017 . 8 July 2021.
  38. Web site: 2017 Apeture Summer Open: On Freedom . aperture.
  39. Web site: FIX Photo Festival - FIX Photo 2016 . LA Noble Gallery.
  40. Web site: Field Study . Weinberg/Newton Gallery . 8 July 2021.
  41. Web site: New Art Center's Mass Cultural Council Artist Fellows and Finalists Photography Exhibition . ArtSake . January 30, 2014 . Mass Cultural Council . 8 July 2021.

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