By Peter Milton 1, Karl Blossfeldt, Joseph Cornell, Franz Kline, Robert Rauschenberg
Located in Round Top, TX
Monumentally Scaled Mixed Media Original Drawing in Graphite and Charcoal by Robert Flynn (1967-2007). This piece is titled "St. Augustine #3", retains the original artist's tag en verso, and is signed and dated across the bottom of the work. This is one of Mr. Flynn's last pieces of art, created in 2005, before his untimely passing two years later.
Robert Flynn received his MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ and his BFA from Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL. Flynn's work was exhibited in several group and solo shows across the country since the early 1990s.
Flynn's late work was heavily influenced by gardening, yard work and the competition in American culture for the "trophy lawn." Creating sculpture, drawings and paintings that celebrated the various elements of the yard, Flynn objectified nature – making the backyard a modern day fetish.
Flynn's work can be found in collections across the country, such as Bascom Palmer Eye Institute; University of Miami, Naples, FL; Cisneros Capital Group, Miami, FL; Hale & Dorr LLP, Boston, MA; Key Largo Grand Resort; Marriott Corporate Collection; Neiman Marcus Corporate Collection; Miami Dade Public Library; Omni Hotel, Orlando; Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI.
awards
2006/97 Artist Fellowship: Florida Individual Artist Award
2000 Tigertail Artist Award
Chestler Contemporary Visual Artist Award / Dade Community Foundation
1996 Artist Fellowship: National Endowment for the Arts / Southern Arts Federation
one person exhibitions
2007 Koelsch Gallery, Houston, TX
2006 Verdure, Walker Fine Art, Denver, CO
Special Summer Time Offer, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY
Lot Lines, CRC Gallery, Miami, FL
2005 Garden Variety, Barbara Gillman Gallery, Miami, FL
2003 Elements: Selections from 1992-2002, CRC Gallery, Miami, FL
2002 Spiller Vincenty Gallery, Jacksonville, FL
2001 Rice Polak Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Peep, Wolfsonian Museum, Miami Beach, FL
2000 Wallpaper, Miami International Airport, Florida-Brazil Festival
1998 Marked, The Chocolate Factory, London, UK
1997 New Works, Cindric Meyer Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
1996 Fancy, Art 800, Miami Beach, FL
New Works, Alliance Gallery, Miami Beach, FL
1994 621 Gallery, Tallahassee, FL
selected group exhibitions
2006 Au Courant, Bentley Projects, Phoenix, AZ
Images on the Edge; Interpreting the American Coastline, Florida Gulf Coast University, Ft Myers, FL
Home and Garden, Lisa Coscino Gallery, Monterrey, CA
2005 All-Terrain, Average Industries, Miami, FL
A New View, Julie Baker...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Minimalist Robert Natkin