On February 1, 2003 the gallery relocated to its current location at 531-539 West 25th Street, Ground Floor. In its new exhibition space the gallery has resume its ongoing operation of bringing new talent to the forefront and initiating relationships with emerging and established artists. Paramount among its various goals is to create a comprehensive dialogue between the works of local, national and international artists. A parallel goal is to make Florence Lynch Gallery a prominent name on a national and international level.
The gallery has an eclectic, unconventional multi-media program and have done cutting-edge video and performance installations as well as painting, sculpture, and photography shows. The gallery has mounted strong one-person exhibitions and mixed media installations which have gotten critical acclaims. In addition to gallery artists, Fatima Allotey, Luisa Caldwell, Janet Echelman, Carlo Ferraris, Craig Fisher, Theresa Hackett, Christa Maiwald, Marcello Maloberti, Maria Morganti, Odili Donald Odita, Gabriele Stellbaum, and Linda Van Boven, recent exhibitions included the works of Rudolf de Crignis, Christian Garnett, Nancy Haynes, James Howell, Yves Klein, Glenn Ligon, Carmengloria Morales, Ruth Pastine, George Peck, Michael Rouillard, Erik Saxon, Phil Sims, Rudolf Stingel, Frederic Thursz, Patrick Wilson, Bob Yasuda, Carl Andre, Roland Flexner, Elana Herzog, Mary Judge, Louise Lawler, Andres Serrano, and Fred Tomaselli. Group exhibitions are curated by well-known curators and critics such as Lilly Wei, Lee Klein and collaboration with Barbara Pollack.
Florence Lynch Gallery has had articles and exhibition reviews in Art in America, The New York Times, Village Voice, Time Out NY, ArtNet, PostMedia, Sole 24 Ore, New York Magazine, Manhattan Magazine, Commerce, Flash Art International, Review, Art Press, FIT Network, Virus Mutation Magazine, OCS News, Residence, The Yomiuri America, Il Messaggero, Titolo, Olis, among others.
Gallery artists have
participated in major museum exhibition including at the Kunsthalle,
St. Gallen, the Johannesburg Biennal, Mexico City Contemporary Art
Museum, with upcoming venues at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm. At
the February 2001 edition of ARCO the gallery presented a 20,000
square feet (2,000 sq meter) sculpture by Janet Echelman which was
then leased by the Caja de Burgos, a well known Spanish bank with
headquarters in Burgos, Spain. Since, the sculpture was presented at
the Bass Museum as part of the Project section of Art Basel Miami
Beach.
Florence Lynch Gallery was founded by
and is under the curatorial and administrative direction of Florence
Lynch, formerly of the Salvatore Ala Gallery, New York. Ms. Lynch has
a Master of Arts degree in Art Administration and a Bachelor of
Science degree, and has worked as an independent curator since leaving
the Salvatore Ala Gallery in 1994. She has worked extensively in
Japan, Germany, France, The Netherlands, and Italy; and has done
numerous curatorial projects in commercial and non-profit spaces in
New York City. Florence Lynch is fluent in five languages.