LyNN MASTERS
Lynn Masters is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Durham, North Carolina. Inspired by women’s struggle for agency in the modern world and the powerful women that surround us in everyday life, her vibrant paintings are an effort to process experiences, memories and hopes for an ever-better future. Lynn creates to communicate with her audiences, knowing that each piece speaks to viewers through their own experiences and memories.
Lynn earned her Bachelor’s of Fine Arts degree from North Carolina State University College of Design, where she also interned at the Gregg Museum of Art & Design. Her current work can be found in Carrboro, NC’s Peel Gallery and Alamance Artist Guild’s gallery in Graham, NC. She was awarded a scholarship to attend a painting studio session at Penland School of Craft in August 2022, and plans to carry what she learned there into her future work, exploring her characteristic blue figures through new media.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Painting and drawing is a way for me to relate to the world. I communicate my experiences of aging, searching for purpose, and navigating gender roles through painting in hopes of reaching an audience that can see themselves in my work. I am interested in the juxtaposition of traditionally feminine motifs with an underlying expression of frustration, erasure, or pain.
I work with paint for its rich, powerful colors and vibrant rhythm, but I am also beginning to explore my current series of blue women through the lens of other media - surface pattern design, embroidery, silk screening, and eventually neon lighting.
