photo credit: Samara Alima
A color shift can hold a memory in place.
Lynne Gillan is a San Francisco artist whose work is rooted in color, playing with its relationship to form and spatial rhythm. She assembles abstract, dimensional pieces made from hand-painted wooden shims she layers with beeswax and pigment (encaustic), creating lyrical vignettes that balance expression and line, echoing the city’s shifting light.
Drawing from her background in interior architecture and design, she brings harmony and proportion to each composition. Her color sensibility moves between intention and structure, unfolding in patterns of repetition and interruption, like a break in the waves at Ocean Beach.
E X H I B I T S
2025 Sealevel, Summer in the Sunset group exhibit, San Francisco, CA
2025 Small Works Projects gallery, Summer Open group exhibit, San Francisco
2024 Gallery 16, Jeffrey Sincich and Rose D’Amato solo exhibits, curated friend wall, San Francisco , CA
2024 Transmission Gallery, Pint Size 2, juried exhibit, Oakland, CA
2024 Ekphraestival, artists and poets collaboration Portland, OR
2023 Select paintings on offer at Park Life II, San Francisco, CA
2023 Open studios holiday faire, San Francisco, CA
2022 Soliloquy Fine Arts, Landscapes: inside & out, Two-person exhibit, Portland, OR
2020 de Young Museum, OPEN, juried exhibit, San Francisco, CA
2019 Art at the Hanger, Marin Community Foundation, Ensemble: Selected Artist Members of MOCA, Novato, CA
2019 Marin MOCA, Open to Interpretation, Novato, CA Honorable Mention
2019 MarinMOCA, Artist Members exhibit, Novato, CA