Amy Lincoln
New York-based artist Amy Lincoln (b. 1981, Bloomington, IN) paints dream-like scenes of imagined landscapes, atmospheric activity and vibrant, fantastical foliage. She completed her MFA at Temple University’s Tyler School of Art in 2006 and her BA at University of California, Davis in 2003. Lincoln’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Sperone Westwater (2023; 2021), Taymour Grahne Projects, London (2022), Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York (2018; 2016) and Monya Rowe Gallery, Saint Augustine, FL (2016), among others. Her work has also been featured in numerous group exhibitions at galleries including The Hole (2022), Sargent’s Daughters (2018), and Regina Rex (2017), as well as internationally at Galerie Valerie Bach, Brussels, Belgium (2020) and Taymour Grahne Projects, London (2022; 2021). Lincoln has been awarded residencies at the Wave Hill Winter Workspace program, the Inside Out Art Museum Residency in Beijing, and a Swing Space residency from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.
New York Time’s Arts Monthly Curator Insights | by Mark Taylor for SF/Arts
“Amy Lincoln’s acrylics depict repetitive cycles of waves crashing and clouds drifting across multi-hued skies. Time seems to pass inside each frame.” LINK
10 Contemporary Artists Painting Dreamlike, Fantastical Landscapes | by Samuel Anderson for Artsy, June 29, 2023
“Amy Lincoln’s awe-inducing attention to color and gradient has made her a contemporary leader in both art and design.” LINK
Amy Lincoln: Radiant Spectrum | by Brian Martin for The Brookyln Rail
“The abstracted sun and moon, light waves, and water all create a symmetrical spectrum of color where the two glowing orbs emit waves in the shape of zig-zags and curves—the values get darker and darker until they meet in the middle as a deep purple.” LINK
How a New Generation of Women Painters Is Creating Dreamy Kaleidoscopic Works | February 26, 2023 by Julie Belcove for Robb Report
“The new seascapes and landscapes in Amy Lincoln’s cozy studio, a skylighted converted garage behind her house on a quiet street in Queens, N.Y., burst with blues and magentas so vibrant, yellows and reds so brilliant, they’d make fireworks jealous.” LINK
First Look: 6 Momentous Artists at Art Basel Miami Beach 2022 | by Jacoba Urist for Cultured Mag, November 28, 2022
“There’s no substitute for actually standing before Amy Lincoln’s sublime colorform. Her imagined abstractions evoke a wondrous world of wavy, celestial horizons and groovy foliage.” LINK
