Christopher Lynch
Fabric Art/ Mixed Media Boxes
Lynch was first inspired to draw and paint on clothing in the early 1970s after seeing Joe Cocker's boots in a movie. “I just had to have my own pair,” Lynch says. So he bought some paint and proceeded to adorn his only pair of Frye boots—which he says he still has today.
Strutting in his colorful footwear around the Illinois College campus, the undergraduate math major was besieged with a storm of requests—for embellished shoes, coats, shirts and more—from his classmates. It was the early 1970s, and funky was definitely in.
Since then, Lynch has continued to emblazon his own clothing using cloth marker, permanent Sharpies and sometimes paint. And he continues to get requests from those who see him, who “gotta have one, too.”
Inside Compônere, some of Lynch’s hangable—rather than wearable—works of art will be on display. In his mixed media boxes, Lynch explores common materials using fairly rudimentary tools to “organize” them into sources of mystery. “I’d call myself a modern primitive who creates from the gleanings of an industrial society,” Lynch says. And Lynch’s drawings, also on display, are yet another expression of the creative talent of this self-taught local artist.
Fabric Art/ Mixed Media Boxes
Lynch was first inspired to draw and paint on clothing in the early 1970s after seeing Joe Cocker's boots in a movie. “I just had to have my own pair,” Lynch says. So he bought some paint and proceeded to adorn his only pair of Frye boots—which he says he still has today.
Strutting in his colorful footwear around the Illinois College campus, the undergraduate math major was besieged with a storm of requests—for embellished shoes, coats, shirts and more—from his classmates. It was the early 1970s, and funky was definitely in.
Since then, Lynch has continued to emblazon his own clothing using cloth marker, permanent Sharpies and sometimes paint. And he continues to get requests from those who see him, who “gotta have one, too.”
Inside Compônere, some of Lynch’s hangable—rather than wearable—works of art will be on display. In his mixed media boxes, Lynch explores common materials using fairly rudimentary tools to “organize” them into sources of mystery. “I’d call myself a modern primitive who creates from the gleanings of an industrial society,” Lynch says. And Lynch’s drawings, also on display, are yet another expression of the creative talent of this self-taught local artist.
