Aug 16: Featured Artist: Lynne Friedman

August 2016: Featured Artist

Painter, Teacher and Community Leader:
Lynne Friedman, Ed.D.

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Lynne Friedman, Ed.D., is a New York native with a studio in the Mid Hudson Valley region. Friedman received a B.A. in art and an M.F.A. from Queens College. She received an Ed.D. in art education from Columbia University. She also attended the New York Studio School. She studied with John Ferren, Louis Finkelstein and Charles Cajori. She worked as a college art teacher and now teaches for SUNY New Paltz’s Lifetime Learning Institute.

Lynne's work has been shown in solo exhibitions at the Booth Western Art Museum (GA), the James McNeil Whistler Museum (MA), the Galeria Nacional Museum (Costa Rica) as well as numerous solo shows in New York City, including recent exhibits on the Lower East Side and Chelsea District. Her work was also included at the juried Annual Hudson Mohawk Regional show at the Albany Institute of Art & History. For years she showed regularly at Noho Gallery and Prince Street Gallery – both in Chelsea.

Her work was selected in 2013 by the U.S. Department of State (Art in Embassies Program) for the U.S. Embassy in Djibouti, E. Africa and Colombo, Sri Lanka. Friedman’s work is part of many corporate and private collections, including Pfizer, McGraw Hill, IBM, Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, Pace University, Ritz Carlton Hotels and Metropolitan National Bank. She has received seven artist residency grants to work in Spain, Costa Rica, Ireland, Southern France, New Mexico and upstate New York. She is listed in Who’s Who in American Art.

Lynne is also immersed in her community as a leader, teacher and volunteer. She is a current board member (and former president) of the New York Society of Women Artists and is a board member of the Arts Society of Kingston. She frequently donates to the fundraising efforts of several non-profits: Barrett House (Poughkeepsie, NY), Rosendale Theatre Collective (Rosendale, NY), Woodstock Art Association silent auctions and Arts Society of Kingston silent auctions. She is also a volunteer art instructor at SUNY New Paltz’s Lifelong Learning Center.