Bad Outdoorsmen, John Muir, Alone, and the Outdoor Industrial Complex

Meredith Laura Lynn and Katie Hargrave met as graduate students in 2010. In 2017, they attended a residency in Oregon that connected artists with the environment. On the way there and heading back east afterward, they stopped in national parks and conceived what became their ongoing, long-distance collaboration. Lynn now lives in Florida and Hargrave in Tennessee. They often develop ideas and conduct research in the field then take on developmental parts of projects separately and join forces at crucial junctures on visits to each other’s studios, camping, or in culminating moments for exhibitions.