“Genius lands where genius will, and I’m pretty sure some alighted on Bill Lynch”-

Roberta Smith, The New York Times, 2014

The Approach is pleased to announce a solo exhibition by the late American painter Bill Lynch organised in collaboration with Verne Dawson and White Columns, New York. Following on from a successful introduction to a wider audience in New York in 2014, this will be the first time these paintings are shown outside of America.

Painting primarily onto salvaged plywood sheets, leaving areas raw and exposed, Lynch depicted landscapes and wildlife, cultural artefacts and mythical symbols with instinctive and direct brushstrokes and a psychological connection to his subject matter. Lynch’s vested interest in Chinese painting is apparent in his confident gestures, combining a dry lambent brush and thick pasty paint. Making use of irregularities such as the knots and grain in the wooden support, Lynch merged the material of the surfaces with images creating an ambiguity between the physicality of the ground and his luscious pictorial visions.