My
art grows out of an intense desire to create. Humans are co-creators with the Creator. I love playing with colors and shapes,
textures and objects because they speak to me in their own spiritual
language. I am stirred, tickled,
brought to tears, and mystified by the process of creating. Paint and collage are present to me
being gritty, stretched, earthy, spatial, both here and absent, lyrical and
pungent.
I
am a process artist. My art is
bold and subtle, whimsical and serious.
I work with colors that are daring and inviting, often combining
complementarities that pop off the surface. I like the flexibility and powerful colors of acrylic
paints. The variety, depth of
images, and three dimensionality of collage challenge and delight me. I am delighted by relationships within
my art that are opened up by the process.
My
work presents images and compositions
that are abstract. My
search for meaning leads me beyond the associations and assumptions our culture
has hammered into me. The
meaning of a color has more to do with the colors presented with it and with
its shape. In one work yellow can
be happy, in another searing or
threatening. A shape gains meaning
from the color(s) it contains. A
line produces meaning by the positive as well as negative shape it
defines. Walk through the door of
an art work and find the truth that it uniquely contains. Another work - another door - and
another truth is revealed, if we are willing to look.
Rusty
Lynn
www.RustyLynnsArt.com
703-350-7174
rustylynn@earthlink.net
Bio
Rusty Lynn is an
artist living in Arlington, Virginia.
After a long career in ministry, social work, and pastoral counseling,
he is devoting his time to a life in the arts. Rusty received a Batchelor of Arts Degree with a Major in
Fine Arts and a Minor in Humanities from Macalester College in St. Paul,
Minnesota. Although setting his
art career aside while doing ministry, he made use of his arts education by
producing and directing religious drama in the church, creating off-loom
weavings, and employing art therapy techniques with clients in his pastoral
counseling practice. Currently he
is working in acrylic paints and collage, and making assemblages, a practice
dating to his childhood.
Rusty
has been interested in the links between the arts, creativity, and spirituality
for most of his life. Being an
artist in ministry meant that he was often looking for a more creative way to
do things, such as developing a simulation game about intergalactic travel as a
way of helping teenagers explore what it could mean to be a caring and creative
community. As a gay man, he
continually explores what it means to be on the outside of society. This led him to expand his ministry
into mental health by getting a Masters in Social Work, allowing him to work
with persons living with HIV and AIDS.
He created and led grief workshops for AIDS “Buddies” using the arts as
tools for expression. While
working as a pastoral counselor Rusty combined ministry, psychotherapy, art and
spirituality.
