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Aaron Fink
Very Large Coffee Cup Painting by Aaron Fink

1984

About the Item

Aaron Fink (American, b. 1955) Coffee Cup Signed and dated "Aaron Fink 84" lower right. framed. Provenance: From an important Massachusetts corporate collection. Floated against a foam core backing so that the edges of the sheet are visible. The two tiny tears are probably at site of old tack holes, where the tacks pulled through the paper due to the weight. Born in Boston, Fink received his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and his MFA from the Yale University School of Art. His work has been exhibited widely throughout the U.S., Europe, Japan and Australia. He has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Muskegon Museum of Art, Michigan, the Rockford Art Museum, Illinois, and Colorado State University, Fort Collins. In 2002 a monograph on Fink’s work, Out of the Ordinary, was published, with text by Eleanor Heartney. In 1983 Fink met the collector John Powers, who remained a strong supporter of his work until his death in 1999. Fink’s work is represented in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Hara Museum, Tokyo, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, among many others. Fink currently divides his time between Boston and Rockport, Massachusetts. S E L E C T E D C O L L E C T I O N S Art Institute of Chicago Bank of America Boston Public Library Bouwfonds Netherlandse Gemeenten, The Netherlands Brooklyn Museum of Art Castelli Collection, New York Chase Manhattan Bank Chemical Bank Childrens Hospital, Chicago Choate Rosemary Hall, Wallingofrd, CT Citizens Bank, Boston Coopers & Lybrand Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA Danish House of Parliament Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park Lincoln, MA Farnsworth Museum, Maine Fidelity Investments, Boston Firstbank of Minneapolis Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA G.E. Corporation Goldman Sachs & Company IBM, New York Indianapolis Museum of Art Library of Congress Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Museum of Modern Art, New York National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC New York Public Library Philadelphia Museum of Art Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine United States Department of State University of Massachusetts, Amherst Awards Residency, Anderson Ranch, Snowmass, CO, 1998, 1996 National Endowment for the Arts, 1987, 1982 Artist Fellowship, Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities, 1984 American Academy in Rome, Prix de Rome – Alternate in Painting, 1979 Yale University, Ford Foundation Special Project Grant, Fall 1979 Skowhegan Scholarship Award, conferred by the Maryland Institute College of Art, Spring 1976 Selected Shows: Hartje Gallerie, Frankfurt, Germany, 1989 David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY, 1988 Jack Shainman Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1988 Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, 1987 Gallery Barbara Farber, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1977 Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, NY, 1987 Hartje Galerie, Frankfurt, Germany, 1986 Leo Castelli Uptown, New York, NY, 1986 Jack Shainman Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1985 Galerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1977 Galerie Barbara Farber at The Forum Art Fair, Zurich, 1985 American Graffiti Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1982, 1981 Hayden Corridor Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA,1980
  • Creator:
    Aaron Fink (1955, American)
  • Creation Year:
    1984
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 79 in (200.66 cm)Width: 66 in (167.64 cm)Depth: 2.5 in (6.35 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
    Studio tack holes along edges of the sheet, two small tears (each about 1/4 in.) to u.c. edge, subtle rippling, not examined out of frame.
  • Gallery Location:
    Surfside, FL
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU38211158292

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