Château Shatto is pleased to announce Infinitely on the surfaces of this teardrop world, an exhibition of works by the late Alan Lynch. This marks the first occasion a dedicated presentation of the artist’s work has been mounted in six decades.

Alan Lynch (b. 1926, d. 1994) was a painter whose output in oil and watercolor made overtures to worlds of both natural and metaphysical order. He was an earnest scholar of broad artistic traditions and his pursuit of devotional and philosophical systems colored the pace with which he lived life and executed artworks.

While Lynch was a lively and influential contributor to the vast matrix of post-war art in California, he maintained an idiosyncratic position amongst his peers. In 1969, following a bright—if brief—exhibition career lasting just over a decade, he decisively withdrew from publicly presenting his paintings in favor of cultivating a private practice. This marked shift would remain in place for the remaining two and a half decades of his life. When Lynch passed away in 1994, the lion’s share of his oeuvre remained unexhibited.

Infinitely on the surfaces of this teardrop world comprises two major bodies of work by the artist, each from crucial junctures: oil paintings made from 1963 to 1965; and watercolors from 1975 to 1977. Many of these examples are on loan from private collections and together they comprise the most comprehensive staging of the artist’s work to date.