How little is enough?

For more than 25 years, this inquiry has guided Lynne Harlow’s work. Employing a reductive language of sensual minimalism, she formulates responses to this question with work that inhabits the intersection of color, light, and space.

Lynne’s work is exhibited regularly in the U.S. and internationally.  Recent exhibitions of her work have been presented at Pi Foundation Global Centre for Circular Economy and Culture (Delphi, Greece) and Liliana Bloch Gallery (Dallas, TX).   Museum exhibitions include Uncharted: American Abstraction in the Information Age at the Hofstra University Museum of Art (Hempstead, NY),  the 2013 deCordova Biennial at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum (Lincoln, MA) and Sculpture from the Contemporary Collection at the RISD Museum of Art (Providence, RI), as well as MoMA/PS 1 (New York, NY), Herbert F. Johnson Museum (Ithaca, NY), South Bend Museum of Art (South Bend, Indiana), and the Brattleboro Museum of Art (Brattleboro, VT).

Lynne was awarded an Artist Grant from the Pollock Krasner Foundation in 2020. In 2010, she was awarded a MacColl Johnson Fellowship from the Rhode Island Foundation. Both awards supported the development of new work.

She has attended two residencies, both of which have significantly impacted her work and process.  In 2002, she was a Visiting Resident Artist at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, TX, where she lived and worked onsite at Chinati with unrestricted access to its exhibition spaces and resources.  In 2011, Lynne was a fellow at the BAU Institute’s residency program in Otranto, Italy.  

Lynne’s work has been reviewed by Artforum, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Two Coats of Paint, The Providence Journal and ArchitectureBoston, among others. 

Her work is represented by MINUS SPACE (Brooklyn, NY) and Liliana Bloch Gallery (Dallas, TX).  Her work resides in numerous collections, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Museum of Modern Art, Library Special Collections; The Phillips Collection; The RISD Museum of Art; The New York Public Library and the Art in Embassies program of the U.S. Department of State.  She is a member of American Abstract Artists. She holds an M.F.A. from Hunter College, The City University of New York.  

Lynne lives and works in beautiful, weird Providence, RI, where the state motto is HOPE.