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Lynn Glaser

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“The eye solicited alone makes the ear impatient. The ear solicited alone makes the eye impatient. Use these impatiences.”
— Robert Bresson

My early training in abstraction was in music and dance.  I studied piano from childhood and earned keyboard and music history degrees at university.  As an adult, I returned to Berkeley to study painting.  Like many, I was immediately drawn to figurative work as the most interesting subject but soon left that behind for my love of the outdoors and nature.

My paintings are concerned with a feeling of the openness of large spaces whether in nature or one’s imagination.  I hope the viewer also senses a passage of time,  by the pace at which one looks at a work and the excavation of paint layers in the work itself.

Over the years I’ve experimented with three dimensional painting in the form of freestanding wooden obelisks, as well as with wood panels on which one can ‘excavate’ by sanding through layers of paint.  Recently, I have returned to stretched and un-stretched linen as well.

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Lynn Glaser
510.495.4064
redpaint@lynnglaser.com

“He was always a late artist, calling to mind Edward Said’s definition of late style as one “hellbent on remaining untimely and contrary, permanently on strike from and at odds with everything that is fashionable.”
— Jackie Wullschläger from her review of a Cy Twombly retrospective at the Tate
“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool. So, you have to be very careful about that. After you’ve not fooled yourself, it’s easy not to fool other scientists. You just have to be honest in a conventional way after that.”
— Richard Feynman

Bio

Education

University of California, Berkeley
Department of Art Studio

University of California, Berkeley
Graduate School of Music

B.A., M.M., University of Southern California, Los Angeles
 

Solo Exhibitions

Excavation
Simons Laufer Math Institute, UC Berkeley
August 2024 to January 2025

Letters from Iceland 
871 Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005 

The Lycian Shore
UBS Building, San Francisco, CA
2004

Textures in Nature
San Francisco, CA
2004

Landscape & Memory
871 Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002

Recent Paintings (Wanderung)
871 Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000

Wanderung and Inverness (Concurrent with Recent Paintings)
Bank of America Center, San Francisco, CA
2000

An Exhibition of Oil Paintings by Lynn Glaser
Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, CA
2000

Works on Paper by Lynn Glaser
Rockefeller Institute, Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, Italy
1997

Group Exhibitions

Evergreen 
George Lawson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2009

Cambridge Arts Association National Prize Show
Cambridge, MA
Juror: Maxwell L. Anderson, Director, Whitney Museum of American Art
2001
 

Residencies

Visiting Artist, American Academy in Rome
Fall 2010

Lynn Glaser lives and works in Berkeley, California.

Photo credits: Sasha Schell and Sarah Beth Studios

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