DAVID LYNCH

Over the past three decades he has written and directed critically acclaimed films such as Eraserhead (1977), The Elephant Man (1980), Blue Velvet (1986), Lost Highway (1997), Mulholland Drive (2001), Inland Empire (2006) and the television series Twin Peaks (1990–91). While studying painting at the Boston Museum School and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in the late 1960s, Lynch envisioned his first ‘moving painting,’ a multidimensional composition beneath a moving projection titled_Six Men Getting Sick (Six Times)_ (1967). This multimedia work marked Lynch’s first foray into video and filmmaking. Since then, his prolific career has touched on subjects of the organic body and industrial sites in various states of decay, describing a deeper human experience both beyond and within the everyday. Often depicting scenes with an eye toward surrealism and mystery, Lynch’s work balances the porous divide between the body and the world it inhabits.

Lynch has been the subject of numerous exhibitions, including The Air is on Fire: 40 years of Paintings, Photographs, Drawings, Experimental Films, and Sound Creations, Fondation Cartier, Paris, France (2007), which traveled to La Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy (2008); Cultural Foundation Ekaterina, Moscow (2009), and GL Strand, Copenhagen, Denmark (2011); David Lynch: The Factory Photographs, Photographers’ Gallery, London (2014); David Lynch: Squeaky Flies in the Mud, Sperone Westwater, New York (2019); David Lynch: My Head is Disconnected, HOME, Manchester, United Kingdom (2019), and David Lynch: From the Fringes of the Mind, Gyre Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (2019).

Retrospectives of his work include Someone is in my House, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht (2018–19); Silence and Dynamism, Centre of Contemporary Art, Torun, Poland (2017–18); Between Two Worlds, Queensland Art Gallery in Brisbane, Australia (2015), and The Air is on Fire, Fondation Cartier, Paris (2007). In 2013, Brett Littman curated a thematic selection of works utilising ‘naming’ through narrative text at Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles, which traveled to the Middlebrough Institute of Modern Art (2014–15). In 2014, a survey was presented at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts where the artist previously studied painting.

Courtesy Pace Gallery