Biography |
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- Lynn Rybicki was born in Oak Park, IL, just outside Chicago. She attended the Maryland Institute
College of Art in Baltimore, MD, from 1974-1981, earning a Concentration in Painting. In 2001,
Rybicki earned a B.S. in Music Education from Towson University, Towson, MD. Her work has been
widely exhibited throughout the region and beyond.
- Lynn’s work is included in the permanent collection of the University of Maryland University College
(UMUC), and is currently installed at the UMUC Inn and Conference Center in Adelphi, MD. From
June 2010-June 2011 her work was featured at the UMUC Inn and Conference Center, in Twelve
Paintings, curated by Robert Donovan. From August through October 2010, 36 of Lynn’s paintings
were installed on three floors of the U.S. District Courthouse in Greenbelt, MD, in a two-person
show at this UMUC satellite exhibit space. In October-November, 2010, Lynn’s work appeared in
the 30th Anniversary Faber Birren National Color Award Show, at the Stamford Art Association in
Stamford, CT. For that show, her work was selected by Samantha Rippner, Associate Curator at
the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
In 2010 Lynn was a featured artist in “Exploring Abstraction: Invitational Exhibition,” in York, PA.
She participated in the 2009 Critic’s Residency at Maryland Art Place and in a solo exhibition at the
James L. Pierce Gallery in Lutherville, MD in 2008. She was a featured artist for the Maryland State
Arts Council Visual Artists’ Registry in 2004. Rybicki combined her visual art, her poetry and her
vocal skills in a solo performance at Towson University’s Center for the Arts in 2001. She is a four-
time selected participant in national juried shows with the Circle Gallery of the MD Federation of Art,
Annapolis, MD, and has shown in numerous juried shows in venues such as Artscape at Maryland
Institute College of Art, Montpelier Arts Center, Laurel, MD, Riverview Gallery in Havre de Grace,
MD, Salisbury State University, Salisbury, MD, Villa Julie College, Baltimore, MD, and the Towson
Arts Collective, Towson, MD. Rybicki’s work is also included in private collections throughout the
Mid-Atlantic region.
- ARTIST’S STATEMENT
To the farthest reaches of the cosmos, light lives, life breathes, souls soar, and colors roar. From
this dance, an ocean of feeling springs. In my work, I seek to express these unspeakable things.
And always, to uplift.
