Baker Artist Portfolios

Following graduation with a BFA in photography, Lynn moved to Australia in 1975.  She fell in love with the country’s vast inland desert landscape.  After spending all her life in an urban environment, it was a challenge to depict a space extending over thousands of miles that defied traditional pictorial conventions.  Photographs of this landscape was the subject of her first one-person exhibition, Horizons (1981), at the National Gallery of Victoria.

“Landscape” in all its diverse forms is at the heart of Lynn’s photography, whether it be cemeteries located on state lines, domestic interiors, a 19thC building in Baltimore that housed a former funeral home, or a city in the northwest corner of England.  The act of photographing involves engaging with the possible historical, cultural, social, or ecological significance of a site.

In 1983, Lynn moved to the United Kingdom.  While teaching photography at several art schools, Lynn published four books, Furniture Fictions (1989), 1:1 (1993), Corporation House (1996), and Interior Light (1997).  She participated in many solo and group exhibitions including Viewfindings: Women Photographers: Landscape and Environment (1994) and the ground-breaking Inside the Visible (1996).

Lynn returned to the United States to teach photography at the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1999.  Since then, Lynn received a Fulbright Scholarship in 2010 to lecture in the Czech Republic and to photograph Jewish cemeteries throughout the country with an emphasis on their botanical footprint.  How these historical sites disrupt the landscape was the subject of an exhibition, Still…Life (2016), at the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Working with video is a new development in Lynn’s practice.  Memory Foam (2022), a hybrid work that combines still photographs with sound, has enabled her through the manipulation of light to forge a closer relationship between domestic interiors and the personal objects found within these spaces.  In 2022, this video premiered at Goya Contemporary, Baltimore.

Recently, Lynn’s pictures of archival photographic panoramic scrolls from In A Matter of Time (2020-present) were selected for inclusion in the 2024 FotoFest biennial exhibition 10 x 10 in Houston, Texas.  Currently, her latest video Between death and (2024), which utilizes a variety of image-capturing technologies in its depiction of a funeral home, is on view in The Last Best Time and Space Video Art Exhibition at the Ryniker-Morrison Gallery, Rocky Mountain College in Billings, Montana.