“The journeys, the movement through space and time and the experiences along the way offer powerful insights into how we interpret the world we inhabit.”
Circumnavigation: Landscape as subject in my work is rare, but I’ve spent a good amount of time walking through landscapes; from here to there, back around, and many, many times off on a tangent. This series draws a good deal of its imagery from some of these walks. There are scans, and graphic elements included in the compositions, but most of the imagery derives from the camera and what it notes along the way when I push the shutter button. Relationships between the images in each piece hold a compatible dissonance for me and build a narrative of time passed more than the moment experienced. They represent in various ways the imaginative wanderings of the mind as much as the meanderings of my legs along various trails.
There is a strong tradition of the walk in our collective stories. It can be an adventure or an escape, something we confront or avoid. The journeys, the movement through space and time and the experiences along the way offer powerful insights into how we interpret the world we inhabit. The spaces we discover can challenge us in unexpected ways - what we expect to see and what really appears, and what happens on the next visit to the same space (which is never really the same space at all).
Brian Flinn is a mixed media and digital artist from Derby, CT whose work explores issues of paradox and fragments of time. In his digital work, he uses scanned objects, drawings and photographs as the ingredients for collages which draw from his experiences with painting and illustration to build images of multiple layers and surfaces.
He earned his B.F.A. in Illustration and an M.S. in Art Education from the University of Bridgeport and his M.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts in NYC where he studied with Marshall Arisman, Tom Woodruff and the painter Paul Vazquez. Brian began teaching in 1995 and spent 17 years teaching in the Amity School District. Since 2013 he has served in the Art Department at Central Connecticut State University, teaching Painting, Digital Art and Art Education courses for undergrad and graduate students.
In addition to multiple exhibitions throughout Connecticut including the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, University of Bridgeport’s Shelfhaudt Gallery, Canton’s Gallery On the Green, and the New Britain Museum of American Art, Flinn’s work has been shown in galleries throughout the U.S. and Europe. These include Partium Christian University in Oradea, Romania, the Los Angeles Center for Digital Arts, Verum Ultimum Gallery in Portland, OR, Gallery 66 in Cold Springs, NY and the Modern Visual Arts Gallery in Bethlehem, PA . He is a member of Kehler Liddell Gallery in New Haven.
