About Me

ARTIST STATEMENT

Although my work usually depicts farmscapes and cityscapes, they are much more than pretty pictures. I consider myself a painter of social commentary, and my work establishes a time gone by. Our farms are losing the fight of urban blight and the industrialization of farming. Our cities older buildings are being torn down for steel and glass structures. I am trying to preserve our built history, as well as what is left of our farms in my paintings.

At this time, I feel the need to express my thoughts about the world at large. My new Collage/Mixed Media works are a way to do that. We are surrounded by chaos, in a war that seems to be never ending. While at the same time, there is a threat of another one. Countries take human rights carelessly. Global Warming is a reality. People are losing their homes to foreclosures, food and gasoline prices are higher than ever before. The list goes on. The prior administration was riddled with secrets and lies. I am blaming the lack of responsibility on the past eight years. However there must be accountability at some level and a plan to fix what has been broken. Finally has happened. As an artist, I feel it is my responsibility to express my reactions to situations that upset me. If each of us unites for a common cause we can make a difference. With President Obama we will make a difference.

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Lynne Cheson, Born in Brooklyn, NY has been living and working as an artist in Tenafly, New Jersey for most of her life. Much of her material comes from within a two-hour drive to the farmlands and the cities and towns she comes across. Work not finished on site is recorded with her camera and continued in her studio. As for the collages–most of the material used has been gathered for almost nine years the others happen as history is made.

Cheson’s work has been exhbited at the Treasure Room Gallery, NYC, the Tivoli Gallery, Tivoli, NY, the Belskie Museum, Closter, NJ as well as Ridgefield Guild, Ridgefield, CT., to name a few. She has received many awards including the Award of Excellence given by William Zimmer, noted NY Times Art Critic, and Best of Show at the Edgewater Arts Festival two years in a row. She has been in three juried small work shows in the Mikhail Zakin Gallery in Closter, NewJersey and two at the Hopper House, Nyack, NY. Her work is in private collections in NY, NJ, Washington, DC, Beverly Hills, CA and the Swatch Group headquarters in Switzerland. Lynne is working with her town and Bergen County to have public works including one already hung at the Tenafly Bus Station. She has been Chairperson of Tenafly Presents and Tenafly Arts Grant Coordinator for two years for mentoring art students, and a member of N.A.W.A. Lynne is also working on her memoir My Mother is Coming to Live With Me, at this time.