My painting concurrently expresses contradicting themes in art. The aim is not to nullify these themes, not to mesh them together but to have them challenge each other.
I compel the accidental and the restrained to occur in a painting. Marks on the canvas are traces, vestiges of the act of painting, and suggest spontaneous gestures that describe the image.
In my work a library of stencils (made of marks drawn from incidents, recollections and painting) assist in constructing a visual language. Paintings are created by using, reusing and distorting these elements.
David John Flynn
| Born in Manchester, Connecticut US on the 29th of February 1952 | |
| 1975 |
Bachelor of Fine Arts Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Studio assistant for Gerald Donato, Lithography |
| 1973 |
Summer Academy Edinburgh Arts ‘73, Richard DeMarco Gallery, Edinburgh GB, with Josef Beuys |
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1972
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Summer Academy Edinburgh Arts ‘72, Richard DeMarco Gallery, Edinburgh GB, with Magdalena Abakanowicz |