Lynne Golob Gelfman (1944-2020) was a Miami-based artist known for her groundbreaking experimentation with abstract painting techniques. Her first solo show was a prize awarded by Miami Metropolitan Museum and Art Center in 1974, then under the leadership of Arnold Lehman. Her prolific art career includes over 40 solo shows and she has exhibited in galleries and museums both nationally and internationally. In 2018, the Perez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) presented the solo exhibition, Grids: A Selection of Paintings by Lynne Golob Gelfman, which examined her practice from the 1970s onwards. Gelfman explored the natural world through a language of mark-making and investigation that transcended conventional artmaking.

The Gelfman Archive is dedicated to preserving and documenting Lynne Golob Gelfman’s contributions to American contemporary art. The archive offers an insight into her life and work by sharing artwork and archival materials that span over forty years. Gelfman’s art career was prolific and through the archive, we gain a critical understanding of her contributions to Miami’s art history as well as the larger movement of gestural abstraction in America.