From the Catskill Mountains: BPAC Artist-in-Residence Entry 1, July 6, 2013

Throughout her year as Burchfield artist-in-residence, Janelle Lynch will share her thoughts and impressions with us as we share her journey into the spirit and work of Charles Burchfield.

Knowing that each time I read Nancy's Ecstatic Light essay in the DC Moore catalog, I learn something new, today I returned to it. As I looked at the images of Two Ravines, 1933-1934, which she describes, the landscape felt uncannily familiar.

I put on my boots, went down to the woods and found: (see above)

Janelle Lynch is the 2013 Burchfield resident artist. She has garnered international recognition over the last decade for her large-format photographs of the urban and rural landscape. Widely exhibited, her work is in several public and private collections including the Burchfield Penney, George Eastman House Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Newark Museum, the Fundación Vila Casas, Barcelona, and the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Salta, Argentina.