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BIOGRAPHY

Lynda Fay Braun spent her early years between the rugged environment of the Adirondacks and the museums of New York City. A natural attraction toward the ineffable, combined with an affinity towards

nature and an independent spirit compelled her to seek a life in art.

Braun's artistic journey is driven by a desire to find order and spirituality within the chaos of life, essential

for her during these tumultuous times. This pursuit has led her from the large-scale abstract paintings

she was doing to more recent explorations in the digital realm. Nevertheless, her work remains grounded in abstraction with spiritual resonance. Braun brings to her artwork a sensibility developed over a lifetime of painting and years of meditation that included a year spent with her spiritual teacher in India, now creating what she refers to as digital paintings.

Her education included undergraduate studies at Cooper Union School of Art and an MFA in Painting from Cornell University, where she was assigned the role of being hostess to renowned visiting artist

Agnes Martin, who came out of seclusion to accept the invitation. After graduation, Lynda received a

residency at the Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos, NM, which enabled her to continue a relationship with Martin. This served as a touchstone for her approach to art. Their informal mentorship, extending until Martin’s passing, served as a role model for Braun for her life as an artist, fostering a devotion to discipline and the expressive power of abstraction. Later, her education continued, which facilitated a drift toward digital art, including study with John Paul Caponigro at the Santa Fe Photography Workshops and SFCC, where she majored in Media Arts for 2 years.

A solo print exhibit at BIG ARTS Cultural Center on Sanibel Island, FL. 8/22-7/23, was well received despite

the interruption caused by Hurricane Ian. Her work has been honored with selections from many gallery

sites, including Daniel Miller/Your Daily Photograph, Serenity LA Curator,2019, Featured Artist at

Artsy Shark, Rfotofolio/ Lensbaby Award, and Rfotofolio selection for Depth of Field exhibition at the Center

for Photography, Carmel. CA, Color, curated by Diane Bloomfield, 2022. Her digital work was chosen for

inclusion at the Atlantic Gallery by painter Judith Krueger in 2019.

Lynda’s paintings and prints are in numerous corporate and public collections, including 6 large paintings

in the Neiman Marcus Collection and, Cornell University Permanent Collection. The Ritz Carlton Collection, Naples Art Institute, Naples, FL, Braun’s art has been described as an engagement with beauty

as necessity, her images serving as meditations on the possibility of a shared, meaningful experience.