Lynn Beldner responds to the world around her by using domestic processes to create works that are spontaneous, immediate and personal. By sewing, drawing, and combining, she creates delicate objects that subtly pair the fragile interior, with the dangers of the external world.
Lynn Beldner studied photography at the San Francisco Art Institute. Her sketchbooks/journals from the past 36 years were acquired by the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at Harvard University. She is the recipient of the James Phelan Award, Bemis Art Residency, Public Glass Residency, and Paulson Bott Residency. Her work is in collections at Stanford University, the Crocker Art Museum, the Oakland Museum of California, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Berkeley Art Museum, and many other private collections.