By Aaron Fink
Located in Surfside, FL
"Rose Bouquet (Tenor) (2002)" by Aaron Fink (American, b. 1955)
Signed, titled, and dated verso.
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.
Selected Group Exhibitions
Contemporary Responses to Modernism: A New England Perspective, University of Southern Maine, Gorham, 2019, with Martha Armstrong, Ben Aronson, Gideon Bok, Sascha Braunig, Bernard Chaet, Susanna Coffey, Aaron Fink, Jon Imber, Dinorá Justice, David Kapp, György Kepes, Kayla Mohammadi, Jim Ritchie, Ann Weber
Color and Line: Expressive Tradition in Boston, Endicott College, Beverly, MA, 2017 Boston’s unique approach to Expressionism by uniting works from the late 1930s to the present day through an examination of subject, process, and materials. Influenced by the teachings of German Expressionist Karl Zerbe, and the early work of Hyman Bloom and Jack Levine.
Summertime 16: The Big Annual Group Show, Galerie Christoffer Egelund,
Copenhagen, Denmark, 2016
Beautiful Decay, Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA, 2016
MICA Then and Now, Ethan Cohen Gallery, Beacon, New York, 2013
Stuart Abarbanel, Donald Baechler, Brock Enright, Aaron Fink, Frank Hyder, Peter Greaves, Morris Louis, Herman Maril
The Expressive Voice, Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA, 2012
Bon Appetit, Concord Art Association (curated by Meredyth Hyatt Moses), 2010 Celebrating Ten Years, Galerie D’Avignon, Montreal, Canada, 2008
New England Impressions II: Exploring the Woodcut, Concord Art, Concord, MA, 2008 with artists: Doug Andersen, Leonard Baskin, Aaron Fink, Don Govett, Peik Larsen, Michael Mazur, Barry Moser, Brian Shure,
Heidi Siebel, Annie Silverman, Andrew Stevovitch, James Stroud.
Right to Print: Segura Publishing Company, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art,
Go Figure: The Figure in Contemporary Art – A Response to Art History,
McIninch Art Gallery, Southern New Hampshire University, 2007
Fourteen Artists/Fourteen Years: Mahaffey Fine Art, Portland Art Museum,
Portland, OR, 2006-2007
More Than One: Prints and Portfolios from the Center Street Studio, Boston
Painting in Boston: 1950-2000, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA, 2002
A Tribute to John Powers, Hatton Gallery, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 2000
A Salute to Boston, Wiggin Gallery, Boston Public Library, Boston, MA, 1998
Be Still Dear Art, New England School of Art and Design, Boston, MA, 1998
Attributes of the Artist, The Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA, 1997
Working Sources: The Painter and the Photographic Image, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, 1997
The Unique Print: Six Innovative Approaches to the Monotype, Starr Gallery, Newton, MA, 1997
Face and Figure, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 1996
Grand Illusions: Four Centuries of Still Life Painting, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 1994
The Label Show, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 1994
Selections from Atelier Mourlot, Hankyu Department Store, Tokyo, Japan, 1993
Yale Collects Yale, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, 1993
Includes works by Thomas Bang, Jennifer Bartlett, Jonathan Borofsky, Chuck Close, Steve Currie, Rackstraw Downes, Aaron Fink, Audrey Flack, Nancy Graves, Eva Hesse, Brice Marden, Claes Oldenburg, and more.
Fast Forward: Six Years of Collecting for a New Museum, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL, 1993
A Decade of Print Publishing, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY, 1993
The Art Collection of the Federal Reserve Board: Five Years of Accessions, Board of Governors Building, Washington, DC, 1992
The Object: Found, Observed, Imagined, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA, 1991
The Unique Print, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 1990
8 Artists/8 Visions, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA, 1990
The 1980s: Prints from the Collection of Joshua P. Smith, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1989-1990
The Age of Pluralism, Centro di Cultura Ausoni, Rome, Italy, 1989
Award Candidates Show, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY, 1987
70’s into 80’s: Printmaking Now, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Skowhegan Alumni, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, and Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine, 1986
Public and Private: American Prints Today, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, 1986
Highlights: Selections from the Bank of America Headquarters, San Francisco, CA, 1984
Local Visions IV: Portraits, Hayden Gallery, MIT, Cambridge, 1984
Contemporary Miami Collectors, Metropolitan Museum, Coral Gables, FL, 1984
The Modern Art of the Print: Selections from the Lois and Michael Torf Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Williams College Museum of Art, 1984
Painting and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1984
The New Portrait, Institute of Art and Urban Resources, Project Studio One, Long Island City, New York, 1984
The American Artist as Printmaker, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, 1983-84
Boston Now: Part II, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, 1983
Jon Abbot, Aaron Fink, Tom Lieber, Chris Wool, Delahunty Gallery, New York, NY, 1983
The Figure Beside Itself: Contemporary Figurative Prints, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 1982
Art of the State, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 1982
Boston Now: Figuration, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, 1982
A Private Vision: Contemporary Art from the Graham Gund Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 1982
Boston Printmakers 32nd National Exhibition, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA, 1979-1980
Works on Paper from the Yale School of Art, Victorian College of the Arts Gallery, Melbourne, Australia, 1978
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 Nederlandse Gemeenten, The Netherlands
Brooklyn Museum of Art
Castelli Collection, New York
Chase Manhattan Bank
Chemical Bank
Children's Hospital, Chicago
Choate Rosemary Hall...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Linen Paintings
