Lochlyn McClure was born in Austin, Texas. She spent her childhood half in Georgia and half in Texas and greatly enjoyed exploring the natural setting no matter where she was. Lochlyn earned her B.F.A. in Studio Art concentration in Printmaking, as well as B.S. in Ecology for Environmental Sciences, from the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas. Now back in Austin, she is developing her personal practice while working as a Gallery Attendant at the Blanton Museum of Art and teaching afterschool art classes with Creative Action.
Artist Statement
All living things build their lives by responding to their environment and the other living things around them. While human behavior, emotions, and relationships seem complex, they are not too far from the struggles of other living things. Moving through our lives, living things gather experiences that affect how they respond to new events in the future. These memories, no matter the form, make us what we are. As do the relationships we form with other living things. My work aims to analyze these collected layers of memory and relationships through depictions of our flora and fauna siblings. I am highly inspired by the natural regions in which I live and grew up, as well as my education in ecology. Primarily working in printmaking, I also branch into sculpture and fibers to bring the printed image to the tangible environment of the viewer. I hope to wrap the viewer in a sense of empathy for oneself, other people, and other living things as we are all not so different from one another.