Beyond the Bounds - Holly Lynton : In cooperation with the Do Good Fund and Columbus State University

Beyond the Bounds - Holly Lynton , In cooperation with the Do Good Fund and Columbus State University

 

 

Exhbition; Beyond Bounds 

Opening : October 19th - 23rd Dec 23 

Location: The Do Good Fund, 

The Salon/Exhibition Space:111-12th St, Suite 103, Columbus GA 31901

 

For over fifteen years, the photographer Holly Lynton has photographed rural communities in the United States, investigating the various ways in which they forge relationships: to the land, to animals, and to one another. Beyond the Bounds looks across Lynton’s career and the geography it covers to closely consider both moments and spaces of communion, connection, and intimacy. Working within a visual history of religious artwork and the surveys of rural life practiced by the Farm Security Administration photographers of the 1930s, Lynton reveals not only the divinity of the everyday but also the legacies of violence that braid American history with Biblical storytelling. Beyond the Bounds brings together works from three of Lynton’s series: Bare Handed, Meeting Tonight, and Beyond the Bounds. Together these images offer an unprecedented glimpse of the affective undercurrents of rural America, where manual labor is at once an arduous duty and a time-honored practice of spiritual transcendence. 

 

Holly Lynton is an artist working primarily in photography with a multidisciplinary, research-based practice that includes writing, historical research, and collaborative works in other media. Her background in psychology inspires her to explore core aspects of humanity, filtered through local contexts. Her photographs are made in rural communities in the United States with a focus on their agricultural history, current industry, and ritual. Through her images, she underscores the importance of having unmediated experiences with nature and explores issues of sustainability. Currently, her work is investigating the intersection of spirituality, labor, and the environment. By incorporating recognizable symbols and allusions, Lynton highlights how cultural visual memory influences what we see in photographs.

Lynton's photographs have been exhibited internationally; recent exhibitions include On the Basis of Art, 150 Years of Women at Yale (2021), at the Yale University Art Gallery, and a solo exhibition in collaboration with Maurice Wallace: Meeting Tonight: Two South Carolina African American Camp Meetings at the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University (2022). Her first book Bare Handed was published in 2022 by L’Artiere Edizioni. Her book and photographs are held in several public collections such as the Yale University Art Gallery, MoMA Library Collection, the Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, Los Angeles County Museum of Art Library Collection, the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona, The Fidelity Collection, Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, the Ingalls Library and Museum Archives, Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Lowe Art Museum at the University of Miami.

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