Galerie Fenna Wehlau - David John Flynn

David John Flynn

"stations"

a few words on my paintings - by David John Flynn

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. This advances the visual comprehension that these paintings are not merely vestiges of a spontaneous or reasoned painting process, but the conclusive application of combining intuition with the rational, an intuitive painting constructed out of a formal process.

The foundation of my work is the interest in these shifts of comprehension and deciphering the many facets of reality in painting

Vita

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
1972	Summer Academy Edinburgh Arts ‘72, Richard DeMarco Gallery, Edinburgh GB, with Magdalena Abakanowicz
	Selected Solo Exhibitions
2017	stations, Galerie Fenna Wehlau, München, Germany
2015	painting, Max-Planck-Institute für Biochemie, München
2013	tribute, Galerie Schütte, Essen
2011	David John Flynn, new work, H&Z, München
2010	andenken, Theologisches Studienseminar der velkd, Pullach
2009	recognitions, Galerie Harthan, Stuttgart 9. Austellungsprojekt, projektraum-bahnhof25, Kleve
2008	schichten, Stadtmuseum Penzberg, Penzberg
2007	Keepsakes, Galerie Knyrim, Regensburg inflections, Kunstverein Landshut e.V., Landshut
2006	keepsake, Galerie Harthan, Stuttgart (Cat.)
2005	David John Flynn, Torre Villa, centre cultural Salou ES (Cat.) David John Flynn, Galerie Piñyol, Reus ES
2003	buoyage, Galerie von Tempelhoff, Karlsruhe
2002	A Painters Missal, Galerie Harthan, Stuttgart Standards of Memory, Warsaw Project Space, Cincinnati US Notes on the Paintings, Cloister Aldersbach, Aldersbach in association with the Europäischen Wochen Passau
2001	Patterns of Choice, Galerie Schweden, München
2000	New Paintings, Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee US
1999	New Paintings, Galerie Harthan, Stuttgart (Cat.) marina del rey, Galerie Schweden, München
1997	William Turner Gallery, Los Angeles US Paintings, Galerie Oliver Schweden, München
1996	Paintings, Galerie Harthan, Stuttgart
1994	Paintings, Galerie Schweden, München (Cat.)
1992	Ginko Biloba, Galerie X, München
1991	Galerie Harthan, Stuttgart
1988	Galerie Albrecht, München Letters Home, Kellergalerie im Schaezler Palais, Augsburg (cat.)
1987	Galerie X, München
1979	Works on Paper, Modlin Fine Arts Center, University of Richmond

	Selected Group Exhibitions
2017	Hydrophil, Galerie Schmidt und Schütte, Köln Shortcut to Kettwig, Galerie Schmidt und Schütte zu Gast im Kunstraum der Scheidt’schen Hallen, Essen, Germany
2016	VOL1, Galerie Schmidt und Schütte, Köln
2015	monochromosen, curated by electric art cube, Halle 50, München
2014	33 nach 9, with Andreas Stetka and Monika Reinhart, UBO9, München
2013	Probability Flux, with Michael Lukas, Gabriela Obermaier and Kathrin Pfaff-Lukas, Produzentengalerie Landshut, Landshut
2008	Together, Jordan National Gallery of Fine Art, Amman JO (Cat.)
2007	one artist, one piece, Galerie Knyrim, Regensburg
2006	1000 KunstWerke, Galerie Knyrim, Regensburg
2004	Destination Germany, with Liz Bachhuber, Jon Groom, and Sean Scully, Kunst Galerie Fürth, Fürth (Cat.)
2003	glücks griffe, Galerie Harthan, Stuttgart
2002	Galerie Hanstein, Saarbrücken
2001	gegen[d], Amerikahaus, München
2000	3+5, Alram 20, München
1999	Überraschung, Galerie Schweden, München
1998	One piece only, Galerie Harthan, Stuttgart
1996	Made in Germany, Synchronicity Space, New York, US
1995	Black and White, Pope Gallery, Santa Cruz, US
1994	Kunst, Design und Barbie, Werkbund Archive, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin
1986	Internationale Kunst aus Münchner Ateliers, Künstlerwerkstatt Lothringerstraße, München (Cat.)
1978	Small Works, 1708, Richmond US
2004	Hochzeit in Kana, Painting for the Fellowship Hall, Aichschieß
2003	Paramente, Feldkirche Unserer Lieben Frauen, Aichelberg
1998	site specific installation for M & W Zander, from the series Marina del Rey, Stuttgart
1996	Realization of a site specific installation, LandesBauSparkasse, München
Collections
Bayerisches Staatsgemäldesammlung, München
Städt. Kunstsammlungen Schaezlerpalais, Augsburg
Städt. Galerie Filderhalle, Leinfelden-Echterdingen
Regierungspräsidium Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart
Regierungspräsidium Baden-Württemberg, Karlsruhe
European Patent Office, den Haag NL
Evangelische Kirche Baden-Württemberg
Bayerische Landesbank, München
HypoVereinsbank, Münster
LandesBauSparkasse, München
Stadtsparkasse Fürstenfeldbruck, Fürstenfeldbruck
ADIG, München
Deutsche Kontor Privatbank, Grunwald
Verlag Unterwegs, Singen
Rodenstock, München
H&Z, München

Vertretungen
Galerie Schmidt und Schütte, Köln
Harthan Kunstvermittlung, Stuttgart
Galeria Pinyol, Reus
William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, California