Kathryn Lynch: Rare Earth at Night Gallery
6 June – 15 August 2026 · Night Gallery, Los Angeles
We are delighted to share that Kathryn Lynch, who joined us in residence at Colstoun in 2025, is among the thirty-four artists in Rare Earth, a major group exhibition opening this June at Night Gallery in Los Angeles.
The show gathers an international roster of painters and sculptors whose work returns to the landscape — the oldest subject in image-making, and one that feels newly urgent. Its title carries a deliberate double meaning. Rare earth elements are the hidden minerals inside our screens, sensors and satellites: strategically vital, fiercely contested, and yet, finally, just earth. Matter underfoot. Rare Earth holds that tension open — the land as something extracted from, and something we live within.
It is a premise that sits close to our own. Colstoun Arts has always taken the land not as a backdrop but as a collaborator, and Rare Earth's proposal is that the landscape genre is itself a kind of community, built on the shared practice of turning toward the world and looking again, is one we recognise and feel passionately about.
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On Kathryn Lynch
Few painters answer that proposal as convincingly, as Lynch. Born in 1961, she holds an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Her work moves between the harbours and skies of New York and the open country of the Hudson Valley, but it is rarely a record of what stood in front of her. She paints from memory and feeling — boats, moons, trees, weather — building atmosphere from a few unhurried marks. The result is landscape held at the temperature of recollection: intimate, weathered, and unmistakably hers.
That sensibility was a natural fit for Colstoun. During her residency she worked amid the grounds, woodland and changing light of East Lothian, and the affinity between her practice and this place was immediate. Her inclusion in Rare Earth — alongside artists such as March Avery, Jane Freilicher, Wanda Koop, Jake Longstreth and Dana Powell — places her within a serious international conversation about what it means to depict landscape now.
Lynch's recent solo exhibition Weather at Huxley-Parlour in London affirmed the same qualities the residency drew out: a painter attentive to fragility and resilience in equal measure.
Watching a former resident step into a survey of this scale is among the most rewarding parts of what we do. The residency exists to give artists time, space and the company of the land — and to see that time carried outward, into rooms far from Colstoun.
Rare Earth runs from 6 June to 15 August 2026 at Night Gallery, Los Angeles. We warmly encourage anyone able to visit to do so.
Kathryn Lynch photographed by John McKenzie Fine Art Photography
FAQ
When and where is Rare Earth? 6 June – 15 August 2026 at Night Gallery, Los Angeles.
What is the exhibition about? A group show of thirty-four artists whose work returns to the landscape, holding nature as both resource and presence. It continues the line of enquiry begun in Night Gallery's 2022 exhibition Shrubs, this time tilting toward something more openly celebratory — the land as a living subject rather than an elegiac one.
What is Kathryn Lynch's connection to Colstoun Arts? Lynch was an artist in residence at Colstoun in 2025, working amid the grounds and changing light of East Lothian.
Which artists are in the exhibition? The full list of participating artists is: Marcel Alcalá, March Avery, Hayley Barker, Ross Caliendo, Josh Callaghan, Sean Cavanaugh, Cynthia Daignault, Gracie DeVito, Catherine Fairbanks, Jane Freilicher, Lizzy Gabay, Samara Golden, Katayoun Hosseinrad, Daniel Ingroff, Wanda Koop, Lily Kwong, Tidawhitney Lek, Grant Levy-Lucero, Jake Longstreth, Kyle De Lotto, Kathryn Lynch, Mariko Makino, Claire Milbrath, Madeline Peckenpaugh, Dana Powell, Hayal Pozanti, LaRissa Rogers, Anna Rosen, Mars Singleton, Isshin Tanisaki, Ben Tong, Patrick Walsh, Lisa Williamson and Losel Yauch.
Colstoun Arts is an international residency and exhibition programme at Colstoun House, East Lothian — Scotland's oldest continuously inhabited house. To follow our residents and exhibitions, join our mailing list.
