Lynette Charters
Artist Statement
Well known paintings throughout history are referenced and presented in a gallery setting. The Missing Women/Parents Series is a playful yet earnest look at how women are presented but not represented in art, society, and history. Our verbal and visual communications present a white, heterosexual, cis-male perspective, leading to women's bodies seemingly on display for male appreciation. Women and girls are encouraged to succeed while taking on supportive roles. They juggle multiple responsibilities; all while being underpaid and pressured to look picture perfect. The image of the woman's body is omitted from renderings of famous paintings and photographic images, leaving on show the board it was painted on, to highlight the lack of documented female genius recorded in history, lack of proportional representation in politics, how their accomplishments are uncompensated, unrecorded, and appropriated; their bodies are ill considered and controlled.
Similarly, The Missing Parents Series calls to attention the lack of societal appreciation and wage equality for childbearing and stay-at-home parents. Some of these disparities have been exacerbated with the mass exodus of parents from the work force to care for family members during the pandemic and are due to worsen yet more with the current attacks on reproductive rights.
Bio
Charters was born in The Yorkshire Dales in The North of England where she grew up as a child. She is a conceptual artist intent on offering up a new perspective of society and history from the female identifying point of view. She holds a BA (hons) degree from Cardiff College, Wales and an MFA from Chelsea College of Art, London. She studied under the painter Graham Crowley, printmaker Amanda Faulkner, was assistant to the sculptor Andy Goldsworthy and she has travelled internationally working in the animation industry. Charters has exhibited in many parts of America, most recently in Old Courthouse Arts Center (Chicago) and at Marin County Society of Artists (Bay Area), Fogue Gallery and Gallery 110 in Seattle, and Gallery 839 in Los Angeles, also in exhibitions in the UK. She has won awards at Ryan James Fine Arts, Tacoma Community College and South Puget Sound Community College. She has featured in articles in Kirkland Lifestyle Magazine, Shoutout LA, The Olympian, and Oly Arts magazines. She currently works from her studio in Olympia, Washington.
Well known paintings throughout history are referenced and presented in a gallery setting. The Missing Women/Parents Series is a playful yet earnest look at how women are presented but not represented in art, society, and history. Our verbal and visual communications present a white, heterosexual, cis-male perspective, leading to women's bodies seemingly on display for male appreciation. Women and girls are encouraged to succeed while taking on supportive roles. They juggle multiple responsibilities; all while being underpaid and pressured to look picture perfect. The image of the woman's body is omitted from renderings of famous paintings and photographic images, leaving on show the board it was painted on, to highlight the lack of documented female genius recorded in history, lack of proportional representation in politics, how their accomplishments are uncompensated, unrecorded, and appropriated; their bodies are ill considered and controlled.
Similarly, The Missing Parents Series calls to attention the lack of societal appreciation and wage equality for childbearing and stay-at-home parents. Some of these disparities have been exacerbated with the mass exodus of parents from the work force to care for family members during the pandemic and are due to worsen yet more with the current attacks on reproductive rights.
Bio
Charters was born in The Yorkshire Dales in The North of England where she grew up as a child. She is a conceptual artist intent on offering up a new perspective of society and history from the female identifying point of view. She holds a BA (hons) degree from Cardiff College, Wales and an MFA from Chelsea College of Art, London. She studied under the painter Graham Crowley, printmaker Amanda Faulkner, was assistant to the sculptor Andy Goldsworthy and she has travelled internationally working in the animation industry. Charters has exhibited in many parts of America, most recently in Old Courthouse Arts Center (Chicago) and at Marin County Society of Artists (Bay Area), Fogue Gallery and Gallery 110 in Seattle, and Gallery 839 in Los Angeles, also in exhibitions in the UK. She has won awards at Ryan James Fine Arts, Tacoma Community College and South Puget Sound Community College. She has featured in articles in Kirkland Lifestyle Magazine, Shoutout LA, The Olympian, and Oly Arts magazines. She currently works from her studio in Olympia, Washington.
