about the work

All the President’s Noses, 2000-2008
Lowered Forecast, 2008
Every morning of George W. Bush’s first term in office, Nathan Lynch sat with his New York Times and an X-acto knife and systematically removed Bush’s nose from his face in the newspaper’s photographs. Lynch continued this process—cataloguing the photos and the castrated specimens in designated boxes—until early in Bush’s second term when Lynch couldn’t bear looking at the face any longer. This obsessive act of symbolic dismemberment was a type of therapy for dark times. Lynch’s black clouds hovering low over the floor of the gallery represent the ominous sense of bleak and horrible possibilities that has moved from the horizon into our daily living spaces.

about Nathan Lynch

As a sculptor, performance artist and founding member of the Saturnalian Croquet League, Nathan Lynch has made collaboration and experimentation major components of his practice. He has had residencies and studios at the Anderson Ranch Art Center, Headlands Center for the Arts and the Vermont Studio Center. Recent performances include the Lincoln Center, New York, The International Fringe Festival, Edinburgh, Bumpershoot, Seattle and the Alvin Lucier Festival, University of Virginia. Lynch holds a BFA from the University of Southern California and an MFA from Mills College. He is currently Chair of the Ceramics Department at California College of the Arts.

For more information, please visit www.nathanlynch.com.