Lynette O’Kane is a Taos  based artist with an extensive exhibition history.  Her works have been shown both nationally and internationally, including  exhibits in New York, Los Angeles, Munich and Frankfurt Germany. She has obtained numerous commissions, both private and public, including a Percentage for the Arts commission in Kodiak Alaska, a public commission from the Center for the Study of Applied Ethnicity at Colorado State University and most recently, a commission for the private dining area at the Ritz Hotel in Bachelor Gulch Avon, Colorado. Lynette was the sole 2018 Artist in Residence at the Great Sand Dunes National Park and Reserve.

My artistic process endeavors to activate an immediate and ongoing relationship with the natural world. I gather and create using earth based materials. The collaboration with both the materials and their location has a ritualistic component. The works are a meditation and honoring of this partnership.

“In our world, nothing can be known or even exist unless it is in relationship to other things. We exist to form these relationships, which make up the energy that holds creation together. When knowledge is patterned within these forces of connection, it is sustainable over deep time.” Tyson Yunkaporta Sand Talks