"Alaska Shuffle" Open Spaces Project at Toronto International Art Fair, 2007

	Lynn Richardson recently earned a MFA in sculpture from the University of Texas at Austin. In 2005 she was one of 10 graduating MFA's to be awarded the prestigious Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant in the US. The award included an exhibition at the Cue Art Foundation in New York City in June 2006. In 2007, Richardson will be artist-in-residence at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in Omaha, Nebraska. Forthcoming solo exhibitions include a presentation of Inter-glacial Free Trade Agency at Regina's Dunlop Art Gallery in 2007 and a series of new works at Harcourt House in Edmonton in 2008. "My newest images are built through an exploration of contemporary imagery and architectural representation. It is elliptical and the expression of the subject is quieter than previous work. I am aware that the conflict between industrial and natural environment needs to enter the process forming my aesthetic. I feel the urgency to respond to these conflicts from the position of an artist who belongs to a different generation. In my work the critical use of images of consumer icons, logos, and strip-mall architecture has been replaced by forms resembling architectural American minimalism; reduction and repetition replace uniqueness and diversity."