Lynda Frese’s work conveys ideas about the abundant social life of forests and the sentience of plants. Trees from different biomes are especially featured. They alone are witnesses to the flying saucers that dot the landscapes. Tapping into the surreal aspects of collage, her work speaks to our own private and mysterious experiences in nature.

Lynda Frese’s artwork has been exhibited across the United States, and in Europe and South America. Her pieces are represented in private and public collections including the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the Center for Photography at Woodstock, the Manetti Shrem Museum in Davis, and the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, and the Center for Louisiana Studies. Lynda Frese is 2016 professor emeritus at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, where she served on the visual arts faculty. She received BFA (1978) and MFA (1986) degrees from the University of California at Davis, and fellowships from Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine; the Bogliasco Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, Italy, Vashon Artist Residency, WA; ArtLab at the Mountain Lake Biological Station, University of Virginia; and Willapa Bay AiR, Willapa, Wa.

Dates: April 12 - June 28, 2025

Location:  Acadiana Center for the Arts - Side Gallery