Artist Bio
Lynn Burnes is a Denver abstract and nonobjective artist who has been painting in oils, acrylics, and mixed media for over 20 years. Her work has been described by others as vibrant, exploratory, colorful, expressionist, geometric, and sometimes Cubist. Her fields of study have included mathematics, philosophy, and science, which have inspired her love of space, geometry, and time, revealed in many of her works. She has exhibited in over 40 art shows and galleries in the United States and has received several awards for artistic achievement. She has studied under various artists, including Victoria Kwasinski, Joan Fullerton, Joanne Burney (Art Students League of Denver), Pat Dews, and Gretchen Norwalk. Recently, she was added to the board of the Colorado Women's Art Center and Museum.
Exhibitions and Shows
She Makes an Impression, Colorado Women's Art Center and Museum exhibition, December 2025
Second Place in show, 30th Annual Gateway to the Rockies Show, Aurora Artists Guild, November 2025
Women's Caucus for Art (national), Looking Out: A Connected Perspective (online), Summer 2025
HMVC New York Gallery 2023, 2024, and 2025
Red Bluff Art Gallery, Abstract Expressions 2022, 2023, 2024, Corning, California
28th Annual Gateway to the Rockies Show, Aurora Artists Guild, November 2023, Aurora, Colorado
Las Laguna Art Gallery, June 2021 and July 2022, Laguna, California
Colorado Visions, North Metro Arts Alliance, Westminster, Colorado, 2011, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2021
Foothills Art Center, Members' Show, Golden, Colorado, 2018
32nd Annual National Fine Art Show, Louisville Art Association, Louisville, Colorado, 2017
31st Annual National Fine Art Show, Louisville Art Association, Louisville, Colorado, 2016
Annual Members' Exhibit, Paletteers Art Club, College Hill Library, Westminster, Colorado, 2016
New Trends, Colorado Watercolor Society, Avista Adventist Hospital, Lafayette, Colorado, 2016
Square Deal Gallery, Denver, Colorado 2015