Category: Wall Installations
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Wall Drawing, 2022, Future Lab[s] Gallery, North Adams, MA
When I first moved to North Adams, I had to make some inroads with the art community. My first contact was with a lady whose installation space was praised by my friend who owns a ceramic art gallery that operates on the MassMoca campus. After she visited my studio early on in my life in…
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20 Twig Photographs with Drawings, 2022
These pieces are another step in the process of building on the basis of my twig photographs in the creation of the Metaphysical Alphabet. These pieces are also framed and the reflections of my studio or me appear in the photos.
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20 Twig Photographs, drawings and shapes, 2022
These twenty pieces are an extension of the photographs of twigs that I originally took towards the creation of Metaphysical Alphabet. Just as there are many words that can be formed with the any language alphabet so there can be endless iterations of the forms dealt with in the Twig photos. Each piece in this…
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Black Wall Drawing, 2013
At one point, I decided to leave working on paper behind and managed to drop any mistrust of my capacity to draw a coherent statement on the wall. This is one of my first attempts on my studio wall; I painted it out when I decided to do another. The piece is seventy-two inches in…
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Installation, 1981
This installation image showing velvet going horizontally and lanyard vertically occurred at Berkshire Community College in Pittsfield, MA, in a Faculty Show. This is also the only time it has been created and was a combination of the materials I had been working with since I went to CalArts and later used in my exhibits…
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Laos Installation, Details, 2014
These images show the installation of the piece, Naga #2, at the Embassy of Laos in Vientiane, going down the wall from left to right. The textiles are all Lao from different regions of the country. They were gathered at markets and from mills on my visits there. Many of the small pieces of woven…
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Video of Wall Drawing Installation, Oresman Gallery, Smith College, 2008
Staying Connected: A Drawing Improvisation from Lyn Horton on Vimeo.
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Wall Installation, Oresman Gallery, Smith College, 2008
The title of this show was “Staying Connected.” It was dedicated to Sol LeWitt, who passed away on April 8, 2007.
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The Naga, 2014
This piece was an experiment using acrylic wall paint and pigmented pen. It was also a preparation for the installation in Vientiane, Laos, which looks nothing like this.
Lyn Horton 