Press Release: Chazan Gallery

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The Chazan Gallery is pleased to present LINE, EDGE, SPACE, an exhibition of works on paper by B.L. Green, Jessica Deane Rosner and Lynne Tobin, from October 18 – November 7, 2018. There will be an opening reception for the artists on October 18, from 5:00 – 8:00. The public is invited.

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For Lynne Tobin what started as a method to make a line without using a pencil or a brush, has morphed into an immersive exploration of materials and process. In Tobin’s most recent drawing series, Line Studies, she was searching for a freer, less self-conscious way of drawing a line. Tobin dipped flexible materials like string, thread, and rope into ink, investigating the physical properties of the materials she was using. The first drawings were done on a horizontal surface. Later she began working vertically on the wall and observing the impact of gravity, how things hang in space, and the tension between something fixed and something falling freely. Tobin also became fascinated by the inherent tension between the repetitive, vertical lines and the unrestrained marks, and the random happenings created by materials saturated in ink.

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For Tobin art is discovery. When she allows the materials to speak, when she allows room for uncertainty, the work unfolds naturally. There is something about simplifying the drawing process to its basic elements, which allows a truer and more immediate expression to emerge. For Tobin this is the moment when drawing becomes like poetry.

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Lynne Tobin is a mixed media artist who lives in Rhode Island and upstate New York. After studying painting, drawing, and ceramics in undergraduate school, Lynne went on to get a doctorate in psychology. She returned to her art practice in 2003. Since 2008, Lynne’s work has been the subject of a number of solo and group exhibitions. She has held solos shows at the New Bedford Art Museum in Massachusetts in 2013, and the Mill and Krause galleries in Rhode Island in 2012 and 2014. Her work has also been exhibited in a number of galleries including the Naples Museum of Art (FL), the Judith Klein Gallery (MA), the Bridgette Mayer Gallery, (PA), and most recently in a three-person show at the Dryden Gallery in Rhode Island in 2016. In 2016 Lynne was awarded a month residency at the School of Visual Art in NYC. She also has had residencies at the Vermont Studio Center in 2017 and at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts in 2018. Lynne’s studio is in Pawtucket, RI.