As a child and young adult, she pursued her study of shape and color through many art forms, including drawing, printmaking, and sculpture, but her love of oil painting and its ability to position color itself as either a central or supporting subject of an artwork, became her calling.
Over time, her style evolved into what can now be best described as a unique form of abstract expressionism, in which the objects, shapes, and colors she experiences in her surroundings are represented non-figuratively and with a strong sense of emotion. Her work often includes a bit more realism, however, than is often found in “classic” abstract expressionistic work.
Though her paintings are inspired by, and often reflect, significant experiences and relationships in her life, she prefers the viewer to closely examine her work and find their own, personal meaning within it.
To date, Lynne Furst Kalish’s paintings have been featured in six group exhibitions. Her first solo exhibition will take place at The Flywheel Gallery in Piermont, N.Y., in August 2008. Not included in the catalog will be severals paintings that are currently part of private collections throughout the United States.
Born and raised in Rockaway, N.Y., Lynne Furst Kalish is as a graduate of the School of Visual Arts in New York City, and has studied at the Rockland Center for the Arts in West Nyack, N.Y., and the Art School at the Old Church in Demarest, N.J. She now lives and maintains a studio in Rockland County, N.Y.
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