This monumental strawberry is the creation of painter, Aaron Fink. The world according to Fink is one in which things are not what they appear. At first glance one sees a lushly painted embodiment of sensuahty and Eros. But upon closer inspection, we reahze that it is embedded within a canvas which has been blotted, scraped, and otherwise manipulated. Initial sweetness masks an undercurrent of fundamental creative and sometimes violent forces. The explosive energy with which Fink literally attaehs the canvas informs us that destruction is inherent in creation. For Fink, art is the progeny of a dynamic system in which change and metamorphosis are revealed through acts of deconstruction.

Aaron Fink: Out of the Ordinary

Essay by Eleanor Heartney

Sources

Technique

  Using the Materials at Hand

   Elements Portfolio

   Head Series

   Shell Portfolio

   Perhaps Portfolio

   Poems by Paul Genega

Counterproofs

Woman: States

Meanings: Objects as Givers of Life

Plates

Sculpture

Endpiece

Are You A Painter?

  Poem by Paul Genega

Biography

Chronology

Solo Exhibitions

Selected Group Exhibitions

Selected Bibliography

Selected Collections

Awards, Positions & Education

Plate List

Index