Bridget Lynch, American (b. 1953)
For the past
fifteen years, Bridget Lynch has been exploring the role of chance, fate, and
how the Fool can expose the paradox of good and evil in all of us. Her series,
installation pieces, performances, and individual works have circled around
this idea, returning again and again to the image of the Fool as both a figure
of outrageousness and power, in the same way a court jester might appear silly
yet is able to speak truth to a king. Like a Fool’s motley and bells, her wit
and satire deliver messages of thought-provoking substance, skewering human
weaknesses and delusions. “I have a distinctly theatrical outlook and have
always been a storyteller”, says Lynch about her work. “Blindness to the
consequences of selfish action creates a world where we are all the poorer.”
An award-winning
artist, Lynch has shown her work at the