My Pet Ram is pleased to present Light Chasers featuring new paintings by Kathryn Lynch and Charlotte Lethbridge. Both painters carry landscapes like tokens, taking snippets of life back to their studios where they capture their unique recollections of a place. Landscapes are simple vessels used to depict an elemental thought. Memories surge through heavy skies, bicycles and the paths they follow. Kathryn and Charlotte recall distant locations –Italy and Long Island respectively– that remain close through the work. Light is an especially pronounced link in this grouping of paintings, a flowing conduit between the artists. Incandescent color radiates from sources, both natural and artificial. At times, light pokes through hazy clouds, while in other moments, it flares and burns. Without the ability to remain fixed in a moment, the artists chase light, not in an effort to contain but rather to exalt the bright trace of memory, shedding light on our human predicament.

Light Chasers will be on view Friday, November 5, 2022 through Sunday, December 4, 2022. A reception will be held on Friday, November 11 from 6-9pm. The Santa Barbara gallery is located at 16 Helena Avenue one block off Cabrillo Boulevard in the Funk Zone. Gallery hours are Friday-Sunday from 12-7pm and by appointment. For inquiries and more information about this exhibition, please email info@mypetram.com.

Kathryn Lynch lives and works in upstate New York. She received her undergraduate degree from William Smith College in Geneva, NY, and an MFA at the University of Pennsylvania in 1990. Since earning her MFA, Lynch has had numerous solo exhibitions and has works featured in both corporate and public collections, including Microsoft, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, and the Millennium Art Collection in the Ritz Carlton, Battery Park, in NYC.

Charlotte Lethbridge was born in Yonkers, New York. Summers were spent in Fire Island, NY. She studied painting at Bennington College in Vermont and the School of Visual Arts in New York, where she earned her BFA. In 2016, Lethbridge participated in the Eastside International artists residency in Los Angeles and found a new home on the West Coast. Lethbridge now resides and maintains a studio in LA, but continues to be pulled back to East Coast landscapes. She has had three solo shows with Deborah Berke Projects in New York and Post Gallery in Zurich and has been part of a number of group shows around the US.