Comments about the Artist

"Friedman's works pay homage to the sun,soaking up its brilliance and capturing its intoxicating glow... Friedman is the recorder, the storyteller who creates pictorial tales full of movement and energy. the result is a body of work that inspires reverence and respect for the land." James Burns, Curator, Booth Western
Art Museum, Jan 2007

"Friedman takes us on a tour of intimate settings and vistas...her personal response provides a rich and nuanced journey through paint blending immediacy and essence with structure and color."
B.Esmark, be Gallery, Dec 2007

"Friedman combines energetic brushwork and dazzling chiaroscuro in a succulently painterly landscape..."
Ed McCormack, Gallery & Studio,

"Like Wolf Kahn and Neil Welliver, Lynne Friedman is a painter for whom landscape provides a springboard to pictorial solutions...not imitative of nature...endeavors to approximate its energy...Imbues landscape with the power of subjective vision..."
Barbara Lee Foster, Gallery & Studio,

"Friedman's treatment of rich green foliage is reminiscent of the lush paintings by English artist John Constable..." Mary Cassai, Kingston Daily Freeman

"Friedman's paintings are dense with detail..." Vernon Benjamin, Hudson Valley Historian & author

"The poetic grandeur of nature is expressed eloquently...creates work that embodies the emotive properties..."
Artists in the 1990's, Manhattan Arts