Lynn Herring

Herring’s studio work is influenced by her career in advertising where bold simple imagery and witty short headline copy are used to execute complex strategies. Her sculpture and print work have a clean graphic aesthetic on the one hand and a cartoon-like form and line quality on the other. It is as if Donald Judd and Dr. Seuss collided with each other. Herring's interest in minimalism, contemporary culture, social psychology, spirituality, play and humor also inform her work.

Herring's most recent work is a reengineered Tic Tac Toe game designed to “Make America Relate Again”. Created with organic crooked-shaped, brightly-colored wood Xs and Os and using a more complicated wonky-shaped game board, Herring’s game, XOX! Share the Love®, is an art object used to help many different kinds of people to connect for a playful and sane moment in this time of cultural and political toxicity.

Submitted by CX Silver Gallery