Lynden Cline’s works are highly personal – the very act of creating them is emotionally draining and painful as she reaches deep within to extract the catalyst and content for each piece. Family relationships are a recurring theme as Cline tries to reconcile the issues and ramifications of not knowing her biological parents, and of being adopted. "I work from the heart. I frequently cry…I am so overwhelmed by the process, as I am overwhelmed by the reaction people have to my work." The evocative titles she assigns to her works are meant to give clues to reading her work. In Several months before you were born, I married a man who wasn’t your father, Cline was reacting to a true statement made by her biological mother and reported to her by a social worker. About the symbolism included in the sculpture, Cline stated, "The four chairs in the piece represent the people involved."

After a number of years as an advertising executive, Cline redirected her career to the fine and applied arts in 1997, when she began to focus on her study of sculpture, ceramics, and furniture design at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington D.C. and the Maryland Institute College of Art and Design. She served as a teaching assistant, studio assistant, and was involved in educational outreach projects at the Corcoran College of Art and Design and is currently an adjunct professor at that school. Cline also serves as a board member for the Washington Sculptors Group. Her sculptures have been shown in various exhibitions at venues in the Washington, D.C. area, New York City, Massachusetts and other states in the Northeast.

More information on this artist can be found at: http://www.lyndencline.com/.

Several months before you were born, I married a man who wasn't your father, 2002
bronze, stainless steel
64' x 24" x 24"
Courtesy of The Sculpture Foundation, Inc.
Photo: Ricardo Barros.com