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Phoenix is brimming with creativity. And every other year, we put the spotlight on 100 of the city’s creative forces. Leading up to the release of this year’s Best of Phoenix issue, we’re profiling 100 more. Welcome to the 2014 edition of 100 Creatives. Up today: 44. Abigail Lynch.
For photographer Abigail Lynch, a few extra hours in a day wouldn’t hurt.
“Right now I’m working a lot,” Lynch says, “five nine- to 10-hour days a week, but around it I usually manage to work in a decent meal, some excavation of the taverns of the Internet, website maintenance, picture making, and a cup of coffee periodically throughout the day.”
The 23-year-old Phoenician is prepping for a solo show and in the beginning phases of developing a new group of work.
See also: Phoenix Poet Allyson Boggess: 100 Creatives
Lynch has a solo exhibition opening at Eye Lounge‘s Capture 12 on Friday, August 1, that showcases works from her series “From Tigers to Honeybees.” And she’s teaming up with Mikey Estes to put on a one-day-only show at Partk Park (a pop-up art space/park at the lot just south of Matt’s Big Breakfast) on August 15.
“I’m in the starting phases of a new group of work, pretty much all post-graduation images,” she says. “They’re quite different than pictures I’ve made in the past; very close up and texture heavy. I’m excited about them!”
I came to Phoenix with my mother and brother when I was still a baby. I’m practically a native.
I make art because art has an uncanny ability to communicate without words. To make you feel and think and invoke all of your senses simultaneously through looking. I make art because I can’t write metaphors, but I can depict them through photography.
I’m most productive when I have too many things to do. They always seem to get done, and I exasperate myself completely, but that’s the way I always complete the most tasks.
My inspiration wall is full of… my computer’s desktop is currently acting as such, and it’s got about 20 photographs in the editing and post-editing phases of production, hopefully to soon move to the printed stage so I may begin the sequencing process.
I’ve learned most from my BFA degree in photography from ASU. The faculty, adjunct staff and my peers together taught me a great deal in my four years there, honestly more than I think I know how to put into words. Mike Lundgren was my mentor for the greater part of my time there and I certainly feel I owe a lot to him in my understanding of photography. He instilled a desire to continue understanding it. It’s not something that you can just define, you have to experience it, be frustrated by your art, go through plateaus of nothingness and then you come to an integral realization that allows you to move forward.
Good work should always engage you. It should make you want to stand still, analyzing every centimeter of the work, and make you want to understand it.
The Phoenix creative scene could use more discourse. A space, virtual or physical, for informed artists to create an evolving dialogue about art and meaning.
See the 2014 edition of 100 Creatives:
100. Bill Dambrova
99. Niki Blaker
98. Jeff Slim
97. Beth May
96. Doug Bell
95. Daniel Langhans
94. Nanibaa Beck
93. Nicole Royse
92. Ib Andersen
91. Casandra Hernandez
90. Chris Reed
89. Shelby Maticic
88. Olivia Timmons
87. Courtney Price
86. Travis Mills
85. Catrina Kahler
84. Angel Castro
83. Cole Reed
82. Lisa Albinger
81. Larry Madrigal
80. Julieta Felix
79. Lauren Strohacker
78. Levi Christiansen
77. Thomas Porter
76. Carrie Leigh Hobson
75. Cody Carpenter
74. Jon Jenkins
73. Aurelie Flores
72. Michelle Ponce
71. Devin Fleenor
70. Noelle Martinez
69. Bucky Miller
68. Liliana Gomez
67. Jake Friedman
66. Clarita Lulić
65. Randy Murray
64. Mo Neuharth
63. Jeremy Hamman
62. La Muñeca
61. Kevin Goldman
60. Emily Costello
59. Kerstin Dale
58. Vara Ayanna
57. Nathaniel Lewis
56. Ruben Gonzales
55. Lisa Poje
54. Bobby Zokaites
53. Frances Smith Cohen
52. Julie Rada
51. David Miller
50. Xanthia Walker
49. Kyllan Maney
48. Cary Truelick
47. Constance McBride
46. James D. Porter
45. Allyson Boggess
