Lynn Aldrich

About the Artist

Lynn Aldrich is a visual artist who makes sculptures, wall constructions, and installations. After studying English Literature at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Aldrich received her MFA from ArtCenter in Pasadena and now lives and works in Los Angeles. Her work has been exhibited widely, and several are held in the collections of many major art museums, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Calder Foundation in New York, and the Portland Art Museum. She is the recipient of many awards and recognitions, including a Guggenheim Fellowship in Creative Arts. 

Inspired by natural science and phenomena such as water, light, stars and planets, flora and fauna, Aldrich’s work longs for environmental preservation as it points to the excess and artificiality of contemporary culture. Using materials from these very same artificial environments, Aldrich shops for "specimens," which accumulate into artworks that reference the natural world. Despite its earnest challenges to the material world, Aldrich’s work also invites a playful optimism as it highlights the sacramental imagination of such a world