Whitney Lynn works in various mediums, often including an element of performance. Lynn’s artwork can be seen in an upcoming exhibition, God Only Knows Who the Audience Is: Performance, Video, and Television Through the Lens of La Mamelle / ART COM.
The exhibition is produced by the graduating class of the Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice at California College of the Arts with the support of the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts.
The exhibition investigates the notion of “performing” as a medium and a site of mediation. Using the publications and archives of the now-defunct gallery La Mamelle / ART COM as a frame of reference, the exhibition interrogates the range of different relationships between audience and artist through the presentation of a variety of traces—including photographic and filmic documentation, remakes, performances, ephemera, and broadcast-based works. Though the basis of the show is “historical,” referring back to artistic developments of the 1970s and 1980s, the exhibition traces and extends the conversations within these questions of media, representation, and audience up to the present day through the inclusion of works by contemporary artists.
Prepared Position with Disturbance Ventilation and Luminous Signal - mixed media (furniture, cement, tv, fan) 7 x 8 x 4 feet
Sandbag Fortified Pillbox Bunker - cushions, fabric 4 x 8 x 4 feet
Explanation Attempt - archival inkjet print 22.5 x 30 inches framed
Pet Portrait Session - archival inkjet prints 24 x 30 inches
BOL (Bug-Out-Location) - mixed media installation with performance elements
You can see more of Whitney Lynn’s artwork at whitneylynn.net and you can learn more about the upcoming show at wattis.org/exhibitions/godonlyknows.
