12 Facts About Lynn Aldrich

Lynn Aldrich was born on 1944 and is an American sculptor whose diverse works draw on a wide range of high and low cultural influences and materials.

Lynn Aldrich has exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Hammer Museum, Santa Monica Museum of Art, and venues throughout the United States and Europe.

Lynn Aldrich has been recognized with a Guggenheim Fellowship and public art collection acquisitions by LACMA, MOCA Los Angeles and the Portland Art Museum, among others.

Lynn Aldrich was born in Bryan, Texas into a military family that periodically moved throughout the United States.

Lynn Aldrich's father was a veterinary pathologist at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and National Zoo and science was an influence on her early thought and interests and later art practice.

Always interested in visual art, Lynn Aldrich took painting and drawing classes at Glendale Community College, before studying art at California State University, Northridge with painter Marvin Harden and at Art Center College of Design with artists Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe and Stephen Prina.

Lynn Aldrich has taught art at Azusa Pacific University, Mars Hill Graduate School, Art Center College of Design, UCLA, Otis College of Art and Design, and Biola University.

Writers emphasize Lynn Aldrich's playing of artistic influences off of feminist strategies that inject everyday and domestic objects and notions into fine art.

Lynn Aldrich creates through processes of accumulation, repetition and placement that preserve the fundamental, recognizable nature of her source materials; the resulting works fuse, deconstruct or short-circuit form, function and meaning, creating physical and conceptual conundrums that reveal inherent metaphors and poetic essences in common objects.

In Desert Springs and Bouquet, Lynn Aldrich upended the function of downspouts, arranging them like springs, cacti, animal eyestalks or bursting flowers.

Lynn Aldrich's work belongs to the public collections of LACMA, MOCA Los Angeles, New York Public Library, Portland Art Museum, Ahmanson Art Gallery, Calder Foundation, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, and Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, as well as many private collections.

Lynn Aldrich has received public art commissions from the Los Angeles Metro Transit Authority and the Armory Center for the Arts.