Jeremy Asher Lynch
www​.jash​er​lynch​.com
Los Ange­les, CA.

Born on a chicken farm in Hebron, Mary­land, he has migrated between Alaska, Cal­i­for­nia and Florida. Jeremy began cre­at­ing skate videos and short films when he was just eight. Film school grad­u­ate. Self-​taught artist with show­ings in Los Ange­les, San Fran­cisco, Wash­ing­ton D.C., Barcelona, and Lon­don. Jeremy now resides in Hunt­ing­ton Beach, Cal­i­for­nia, work­ing as a Video Director/​Editor/​Shooter by day and an Artist by night. He has shown at Carmichael Gallery of Con­tem­po­rary Art, LeBasse Projects, and Art Whino Gallery.

Curbs and Stoops: Please intro­duce your­self to our read­ers. Who are you? What do you do?

Jeremy Asher Lynch: My name is Jeremy Asher Lynch. I’m a hus­band, father of 3, film­maker, painter, and too-​many-​projects-​taker-​upper.

Curbs and Stoops: Your school­ing is in Film and Video pro­duc­tion, what made you turn over to painting?

Jeremy Asher Lynch: I’ve always dab­bled a bit in Art since I was a lil kid. I think I just got to a point in my life where the bur­den of par­ent­ing and life itself cre­ated a need for some sort of self ther­apy, and I filled that void with paint­ing. It’s been that out­let for the past 8 or so years.

Curbs and Stoops: What kind of impact, if any, does your film and video work have on your work as a painter? Do the two inform each other or are they com­pletely inde­pen­dent of each other?

Jeremy Asher Lynch: I think I can see bits of influ­ence from each one in the other. I’m always try­ing to cre­ate Melan­choly imagery in both mediums.

Curbs and Stoops: Can you talk more about your melan­choly imagery ?

Jeremy Asher Lynch: I am just very attracted to imagery with a sad tone. I feel like maybe every­one needs to feel this at times. I’ve had some harsh crit­i­cism towards the sad­ness of my paint­ings, and I don’t under­stand peo­ples unwill­ing­ness to sub­mit them­selves to sad­ness. If we didn’t feel sad­ness, hap­pi­ness would cease to exist.

Curbs and Stoops: Who are some artists (alive or dead) that you look to for inspiration?

Jeremy Asher Lynch: I have been very blessed in my life to have always been sur­rounded by cre­ative peo­ple and I believe it’s always been through them I have found most of my inspi­ra­tion. This past year I was lucky enough to see an amaz­ing Basquiat col­lec­tion. I was never a fan of his work until I saw it in per­son and I really think its made an impact on my new work. The fact that he was able to tap into this Raw form of art really intrigued me. Oh yeah and I’m def­i­nitely a huge David Choe fan!

Curbs and Stoops: Your work seems to exper­i­ment with a lot of dif­fer­ent medi­ums from cof­fee to indian ink — Why is it impor­tant for you to con­stantly exper­i­ment? Do you have a favorite medium?

Jeremy Asher Lynch: I am a very wishy washy per­son at times. I can get into one thing one week and be totally over it the next. I just get tired of paint­ing with the same medium or imagery, I think its more fun to exper­i­ment. I’d like to start dab­ble with oils at some point.

Curbs and Stoops:What kind of medium are you using now?

Jeremy Asher Lynch: Right now I am using a few. I use any­thing from spray paint, mark­ers, pens, pen­cils, acrylics, india ink, and gesso. And I usu­ally paint on can­vas. But I can see oils com­ing into play at some point in the future.

Curbs and Stoops: When I look at your pieces I feel that you are ques­tion­ing issues of iso­la­tion and self worth. Are these read­ings way off? What are some issues that you tackle in your work?

Jeremy Asher Lynch: Like I was say­ing before, I really use my paint­ing as a form of ther­apy. On the out­side I’m actu­ally pretty stoked on life. I have a beau­ti­ful fam­ily and I do what I love for a liv­ing. But I do think there are many inner issues that come out in my work. I can def­i­nitely see my work as a reflec­tion of my inner strug­gle, iso­la­tion and self worth. My recent work was done over a 6 month period and my strug­gles are in every one for sure.

Curbs and Stoops: How would you describe your color palette?

Jeremy Asher Lynch: I’ve never really thought of hav­ing a selec­tive color palette. I just use what­ev­ers around… I am always try­ing to add more color to my work but I seem to cover it with white over­time. I do have some weird infat­u­a­tion with a cer­tain kind of turquoise blue/​green.

Curbs and Stoops: Some­times I read ele­ments of graf­fiti in your work? Is that an art form that you have exper­i­mented with? Is this some­thing that you are pur­pose­fully includ­ing in your paintings?

Jeremy Asher Lynch: I actu­ally got really heavy into graf­fiti before I got into paint­ing on can­vas. I guess that part of my life always seem to sneak into my work whether it be through tag­ging or layering.

Curbs and Stoops: What did you tag? How did you find your­self mov­ing from being a graf­fiti artist to work­ing on canvas?

Jeremy Asher Lynch: I tagged BROKEN. I was more of a wheat­paster, sten­cil and sticker guy. I think I got over the buff, and I started to have much more fun on more per­ma­nent medi­ums such as can­vas. It was really fun while it lasted and I still get the itch to hit up a wall or a powerbox.

Curbs and Stoops: In addi­tion to video and paint­ing, what are some other pas­sions that you have?

Jeremy Asher Lynch: I have been surf­ing for 21 years. It’s def­i­nitely the biggest pas­sion in my life, and unfor­tu­nately it comes before every­thing in my life at times. Put it this way. If the surfs good, not a lot gets done, and I usu­ally find myself in trou­ble with my wife and work­ing late on dead­lines. It’s some­thing I’ve been strug­gling to find bal­ance with my whole life.

Curbs and Stoops: What do you have com­ing up in the near future? Any projects you are work­ing on? Open­ings? etc.

Jeremy Asher Lynch: I just had an open­ing at LeBasse Projects in Cul­ver City this past Fri­day the 13^th with 6 new paint­ings. I’m also work­ing on a secret project with Gallery 1988. I’m also work­ing on a new trav­el­ing mini doc­u­men­tary series on surf­ing and surfers. And I’m always get­ting into some kinda project be it film or paint­ing. If any­one wants to work on some­thing hit me up!

Curbs and Stoops: Drop some knowl­edge on our readers.

Jeremy Asher Lynch: Fol­low your dreams and pas­sions! Peo­ple will always say you can’t and prov­ing them wrong is just one of the many rewards.

To see more of Jeremy’s work please go to his web­site at <a href=“http://www.jasherlynch.com””>www​.jere​my​lynch​.com