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Retro-active: Two Decades of Sculpture by Lou Lynn
Grand Forks Art Gallery, June 13 – August 15, 2009
By Simone Keiran
Published in Route 3: Life in the West Kootenay/Boundary Region Magazine, Summer 2009. Ed., Shelley Ackerman
Lou Lynn, Sculptor (Photo by Janet Dwyer)
Hand-tools have always fascinated artist, Lou Lynn, particularly the union between a succinct form, such as the semi-circular sweep of a prehistoric ulu whose handle runs parallel to its blade, to a specific practical function: a knife which was not used to stab but—depending on how the handle was held—to slice or scrape with a rocking stroke of the wrist. Her metal and glass sculptures suggest implements such as the ulu, auger, chisel, trowels, rasps and other forms.
“I’m not actually inspired by tools,” she emphasizes. “The form is more important, how shape determines how tools came to be used.” Read the rest of this entry »
