Nonobjective Painter: LYNNE TAETZSCH

May 22, 2011

“While I found Joan Mitchell’s surfaces absolutely gorgeous, I had never known her work during my formative years as an art student. It was the male artists–Pollack, deKooning, Motherwell, Rothko–whose work had influenced me. I couldn’t leave them out to make a political statement. Their art spoke to me then. It speaks to me still.” These words from abstract painter Lynne Taetzsch could be a capsulization of her development of style. The visit to her website will be informative and exhilarating because of her nonobjective style.

Developmentally, Lynne has maintained the early strengths of her vision and then added repertoire to conceive an admirable body of work. Her compositions contain energy and power, but also provide a cohesive framework for color passages that range from dazzling to subtly sensual. She has a strength not seen in many of today’s painters, spontaneity. Her spontaneity denies nothing of impulsivity, yet in her energetic openness she maintains resolve and decorum. That kind of process is truly rewarding to the viewer when it has matured and manifested in a continuum of work.

Lynne works in acrylic paint on canvas. She has probably contributed to the popularization of acrylics as a medium by new artists and those who explore in media generally. Oil as a medium still has a strong place in the art world because of its distinct properties. Acrylics distinctions are many, and Lynne uses most of them with real authority.

One of the best parts of visiting Lynne’s website and her blog is the amount of information and images you will find about her work and her life. For a collector, student or writer this is actually a treasure by which an artistic career can be glimpsed. Lynne has written some accounts of her life that add to this understanding, and in a retrospect view many conclusions can be drawn. How this has added or subtracted from her body of work there may be no succinct answer, but her work stands as a pattern of trial and achievement of substantial and positive notoriety.