Nathan Lynch

“I think a lot of my work has to do with Americans and their well-intentioned efforts going awry. A lot of these sculptures look like they were inflated and then collapsed. Whether it’s fitness, economics, politics or that salmon ladder on the golf course, it comes up all the time—the folly of improvement. And I’m not being critical, but it’s good to laugh at it. Something about the unlimited aspiration of humans to make things better is endlessly amusing to me.” -Nathan Lynch, 2023 in @squarecylinderart Morgann Trumbull Projects will be presenting the work of Nathan Lynch and Rebekah Goldstein at FOG FOCUS. We look forward to seeing you at the fair from January 21 to January 25 at Booth 505 FOG FOCUS Fort Mason Pier 2 San Francisco, CA Preview Gala Wednesday, January 21, 2026: 4:00 - 10:00pm (tiered entry) Fair Hours Thursday, January 22: 11:00am - 7:00pm Friday, January 23: 11:00am - 7:00pm Saturday, January 24: 11:00am - 7:00pm Sunday, January 25: 11:00am - 5:00pm Nathan Lynch, Twenty-Six Reasons, 2026, glazed ceramic, 36 x 22 x 18 inches. Photograph by @johnjanca Portrait photograph by @ekaterinaizmestieva for Studio Ahead @nathanlynchart @rebekahgoldstein @fogfair @sf_artweek

So excited to be included in this talented group @jbblunkestate for 100 Candleholders. opens Saturday 3pm. Blunk Space 11101 CA–1, #105 Point Reyes Station, CA 94956 Hours: Friday and Saturday, 11am–5pm #blunkspace 📷 by Rich Stapleton @rvstapleton Please join us this Saturday for the opening reception of 100 Candleholders, the second iteration of our ‘100’ series, inspired by JB Blunk's 1981 exhibition 100 Plates, which playfully pushed the visual and functional boundaries of one of his most prolific forms. This group exhibition will feature 100 esteemed artists from around the world, each responding to the same brief: to create a candleholder of any material inspired by JB Blunk’s work or the Blunk House.

Doubledrink, @headlandsarts commission 2017. A post for new friends and old fans. A sculpture that brings friends or strangers together to share a drink, a toast, a glance. To lock eyes, wet lips, share an unusually intimate moment in public space. The Headlands Commons. Thanks to @maidensharon for her trust. To @shawnhibmacronan and Archie Wessels and Michael Brown and Swaine for fabrication and counseling. Thanks to the @headlandsarts for being a second home, a place to find family, creative souls, and inspiration among friends. Have you had a drink here? Send me a photo! Thx @taybeepboop for the push and reminder to revisit work!

Block to Block.

Morgann Trumbull Projects’ two-person booth presenting the work of Rebekah Goldstein and Nathan Lynch is now on view at FOG FOCUS 2026. We look forward to seeing you at the fair through January 25 at Booth 505. FOG FOCUS Fort Mason Pier 2 San Francisco, CA Fair Hours Friday, January 23: 11:00am - 7:00pm Saturday, January 24: 11:00am - 7:00pm Sunday, January 25: 11:00am - 5:00pm Photography by @shaun.roberts.photo @rebekahgoldstein @nathanlynchart @fogfair @sf_artweek

@nathanlynchart is one of A-B Projects earliest supporters and continues to be one of our biggest champions. Nathan lead our second ever Studio Session back in 2021 ‘Corner Posts on Cliffs’ and then ‘Useful Clues’ in 2022, and now he’s joining us again this March with ‘Performance Sculpture’! He has recently joined our team of Advisors working with our A-B Ceramics Certificate (ABCC) participants and continues to show us what it means to have ceramics community. In this March Studio Session we will consider how a sculpture can be both an object and a space for fleeting interactions, or a ‘performance sculpture’. Moderately absurd experiments with objects to sit on, stand on, sing from, speak upon, hold, poke, and turn, will spur consideration of the breadth of what ‘functional’ ceramics can be, and how a redefinition of this term can both expand upon and deviate from ‘utilitarian’ ceramics. You still have a chance to sign up for this Studio Session, if you’re interested, head to our website to register!

FOG FOCUS opens today! We will be presenting the work of Rebekah Goldstein and Nathan Lynch. We look forward to seeing you at the fair tonight or over the next few days, from January 21 to January 25 at Booth 505. FOG FOCUS Fort Mason Pier 2 San Francisco, CA Preview Gala Wednesday, January 21, 2026: 4:00 - 10:00pm (tiered entry) Fair Hours Thursday, January 22: 11:00am - 7:00pm Friday, January 23: 11:00am - 7:00pm Saturday, January 24: 11:00am - 7:00pm Sunday, January 25: 11:00am - 5:00pm Right - Rebekah Goldstein, Dial “J” for Johnny, 2025, oil paint and mixed media on shaped panel, 20 1/2 x 16 inches Left - Nathan Lynch, Nowhere Near the Water, 2025, glazed ceramic, 13 x 21 x 16 inches + planting @rebekahgoldstein @nathanlynchart @fogfair @sf_artweek

Morgann Trumbull Projects will be presenting the work of Rebekah Goldstein and Nathan Lynch at FOG FOCUS. We look forward to seeing you at the fair from January 21 to January 25 at Booth 505 FOG FOCUS Fort Mason Pier 2 San Francisco, CA Preview Gala Wednesday, January 21, 2026: 4:00 - 10:00pm (tiered entry) Fair Hours Thursday, January 22: 11:00am - 7:00pm Friday, January 23: 11:00am - 7:00pm Saturday, January 24: 11:00am - 7:00pm Sunday, January 25: 11:00am - 5:00pm @rebekahgoldstein @nathanlynchart @fogfair @sf_artweek

100 Candleholders opens today 3pm @jbblunkestate congrats to the team, the artists and @mariah_nielson for the feature in @wallpapermag

Morgann Trumbull Projects is proud to announce our inaugural participation in FOG FOCUS 2026. We will present the work of Bay Area artists Rebekah Goldstein and Nathan Lynch. The self-reflective abstract, colorful paintings of Goldstein, which have become increasingly built up and textural, will be in dialogue with the ceramics of Lynch, which play with the concept of interaction and utility. We look forward to seeing you at the fair from January 21 to January 25 at Booth 505 FOG FOCUS Fort Mason Pier 2 San Francisco, CA Preview Gala Wednesday, January 21, 2026: 4:00 - 10:00pm (tiered entry) Fair Hours Thursday, January 22: 11:00am - 7:00pm Friday, January 23: 11:00am - 7:00pm Saturday, January 24: 11:00am - 7:00pm Sunday, January 25: 11:00am - 5:00pm Images: 2 - Rebekah Goldstein, Tomorrow Waits for Today, 2025, oil on shaped canvas, 2025, 56 x 72 1/2 inches 3 - Nathan Lynch, Nowhere Near the Water, 2025, glazed ceramic, 13 x 21 x 16 inches + planting. Photograph by @johnjanca 4 - Rebekah Goldstein in her studio, 2025. Photograph by @airykarock 5 - Nathan Lynch. Photograph by @ekaterinaizmestieva for Studio Ahead 6 - Rebekah Goldstein, Dial “J” for Johnny, 2025, oil paint and mixed media on shaped panel, 20 1/2 x 16 inches 7 - Nathan Lynch, Forever Games, 2024, glazed ceramic,18 x 20 x 16 inches. Photograph by @johnjanca @fogfair @rebekahgoldstein @nathanlynchart

Final days to view Nathan Lynch’s work in Ceremony, On view through Saturday, November 22. The exhibition brings together a group of contemporary artists to explore themes of ritual making in art through the themes of light, shadow, and time. @nathanlynchart employs absurdity, humor, and irony to reflect on political conflict, environmental upheaval, and psychological distortion. His abstract ceramic sculptures share qualities with surrealist traditions—their rounded, organic shapes feel viscerally familiar and yet ambiguous, contributing to a feeling of uncanniness. By being surprising or slightly imperfect, his characteristically blobby, primordial forms create an opening for the viewer to tap into their instinctive response. The exhibition also features Lynch’s wood sculptures, which are considered by the artist to be the complementary “shadows” of his ceramics—not just in form, but in essence. While the ceramics are tactile and dense, the wooden pieces feel like their ghostly counterparts, echoes of the originals. In this way, Lynch plays with the concept of shadow as both visual trace and psychological absence. On view at: 445 S First Street San José, CA 95113 Gallery hours: Saturday, November 15, 12:00 to 5:00pm Friday, November 21, 12:00 to 5:00pm Saturday, November 22, 12:00 to 5:00pm **Closing Party from 2:00 to 5:00pm** And by appointment Images: Individual and installation views of Nathan Lynch, Doubledown, 2017, burned cedar, wax, 65 x 68 x 13 inches Photography by @shaun.roberts.photo Other artists in the show: @windychien @christopherrobinduncan @markfoxstudio @stopjoshgo @rachelle_reichert