Lynne Oddo
"Lynne Oddo’s work is contemplative. She uses the harmonies of proportion - an intuitive sense of design, to suggest many views of my natural world, yet the work speaks to abstract expressions of form and space. These graphite drawings are emotional, sensitive, and intense, and, like a portrait of nature, they uncover the spirit in life. They reveal the birth, and the growth - the ideal tempo of change; a present determined by its past. The drawings utilize a classical form while integrating the more personal, romantic notion of expression. Influenced by the natural world, they stop time and give a viewer the chance to get lost in a quiet moment of searching."
After years of dance classes as a child, Lynne Oddo continued her love of form with an undergraduate fine art degree in sculpture working primarily in clay from SUNY Potsdam. She continued her degree at the University of Siena, Italy, where she developed a love of painting and architecture while being influenced by the many surfaces and structures. She designed a graduate degree to combine her interests in traditional fine art, dance, history, and new media technology: digital arts. Since then, Lynne has been working in various mediums exhibiting drawings, prints, paintings, stop-motion shorts, and documentaries in the New York & Philadelphia area. Lynne has been an educator in undergraduate and graduate programs in NY and NJ and was awarded Professor Emeritus after leaving teaching. She now divides her time between NYC and upstate NY, where she has converted a 2500 sq. ft. barn into a working studio.
