Galerie d'Avignon

Aaron’s iconic images from our everyday lives challenge us to evaluate what we see, and what we think we see. To call them simply paintings would be an understatement. He uses common everyday objects as subject matter and along with his deft handling of paint, creates evocative illusions of form, color and texture. It is because of these qualities that Aaron Fink is considered one of America’s contemporary masters.

In addition to his numerous museum exhibitions (solo and group) Aaron exhibits regularly in galleries across the United States and in Europe. His work has also been presented at the prestigious Art Chicago at Navy Pier, The Art Show at the Park Avenue Armory, New York and the FIAC (Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain) in Paris.

‘’The materials of painting and sculpture are malleable but inert. When handled properly, they take on a life of their own and become the embodiment of human thought and expression. In painting there is the reality of the material and the flatness of the surface upon which it is applied in contrast to the sense of illusion that is created on that surface. This is the contradiction that consumes my mind as I work. It is the pursuit of possibilities unknown that I believe drives human creativity.’’

Aaron Fink

“ ….. So stepping up close to Aaron’s paintings, my experience became a whole new set of values and sensations of color, texture, scale, and surface movement and relationships.

Renaissance painting used certain mechanics to create depth, converging lines, receding color intensity, and receding size. None of these things are here. But the painting has an impressive sense of volume. The paint is on a two-dimensional surface, but it relentlessly asserts three- dimensionality.”

John G. Powers, Carbondale, Colorado, Sunday, June 28, 1992
Education

Aspen Institute, 1997
Yale University School of Art & Architecture, MFA, 1979
Maryland Institute, College of Art, BFA, 1977
Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, 1976

Positions

Artist in Residence, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, CO. 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996

Awards

National Endowment for the Arts, Grant, 1987
Artists Fellowship, Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities, 1984
National Endowment for the Arts, Grant 1982
American Academy in Rome, Prix de Rome-Alternate in Painting, 1979
Yale University, Ford Foundation Special Project Grant, 1979
Skowhegan Scholarship Award, conferred by the Maryland Institute College Art, spring 1976