BIO: Ellie Cooper Lynch (b. 1994) is an LA-based abstract artist. She creates layered, lively ensembles of shapes and color using acrylics paints, watercolors, and pastel. Her compositions are born from an amalgam of visual associations with sound, feeling, language, and taste,...
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Ellie Cooper Lynch (b. 1994) is an LA-based abstract artist. She creates layered, lively ensembles of shapes and color using acrylics paints, watercolors, and pastel.
Her compositions are born from an amalgam of visual associations with sound, feeling, language, and taste, translating an intersecting web of sensations into color and form. Working around her canvas, she creates sensory, process-driven works that reflect the nuances of human experience with an enduring sense of optimism. Lynch’s practice probes the meditative qualities of painting that fascinated painters like Helen Frankenthaler, Mark Rothko, and Hilma af Klimt through a distinctly contemporary lens. Her work is driven by an interest in the intangible energy that exists between people, objects, and places, crystalizing the experiences that bubble inside of us and yet slip through our fingers.
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Through color and form you can see the unseeable, bring to life the space between words and certainty. As a kid, I saw color when I listened to music. Although that faded with age, it began my visual association with other senses – sound had shape, feeling had form, taste had texture.
What I am most interested in is the space between people, objects, and places. The space between minds and bodies, our bodies and the world. Between all of these things is an energy that gives way to emotion, albeit joy, rage, fear, or longing, that is untouchable. And yet, by crossing sensations, by reaching across the aisle and creating your own language, you can find fitting expression.
Moving around a canvas, I consider and experiment with the dialogues between shapes and colors. My paintings are meditations on energy, crystalizing the experiences that bubble inside of us and yet slip through our fingers, that are untethered to any vernacular.
Through them I bring forth the power, vivacity, and magic of the invisible forces that dictate our day to day lives – internal and external, individual and universal. I hope to find and harness the play, mess, and curiosity of what we feel but cannot say or express in normal terms, ultimately containing tiny pieces of infinite stories.
