AARON FINK (b. 1955, Boston, MA)

'Red, White and Blue Guitar', 1994

SIGNED Limited Edition Lithograph Print

Color lithograph on wove paper. Dimensions: 27" x 20" sheet, 20" x 14" image. Printed by Fox Graphics Editions, Ltd., Boston, MA. SIGNED, dated '94' (lr) and numbered '47/150' (ll) by artist in pencil on recto under image. Printer's drystamp l.l. Good condition. Some foxing to left margin. A few soft handling creases in margin.

PROVENANCE: From the Collection of Lois B. Torf (1927-2020), a prominent Boston, MA print collector. Clifford Ackley, Museum of Fine Art (MFA) Boston's curator of prints and drawings, called Ms. Torf "the most important collector of modern prints in the country" (Boston Globe 9/23/2020 obituary).

Another impression from this edition is in the permanent print collection of the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Contemporary Art Museum, Cambridge, MA.

Born in 1955, Aaron Fink received a BFA from the Maryland Institute, College of Art (1977) and an MFA from Yale University School of Art and Architecture (1979). For the past four decades, he has composed powerful two and three-dimensional compositions that depict quotidian objects such as fruit, vegetables and ice cream scoops on both monumental and intimate scales. To achieve this, the artist works with a wide range of materials, which include such diverse media as oil, prints, monotypes, clay, plaster and fiberglass.

Fink has gained recognition through the masterful painting of objects we all know, use and see daily. The universality of this subject matter (i.e. fruit, flowers, sandwiches, matches, light bulbs, coffee cups, etc.) coupled with his widely recognized artistic virtuosity within different media draws the viewer into a personal and intimate relationship with each work.

Through his recent artwork, Fink explores the nature of perception, grappling with the gaps that exist between signifiers and the signified, as well as between the intention and the reception of thought. In the end, his paintings and counterproofs are less about mimetic representation than about the acts of painting and of seeing. As curator Ben Mitchell writes, “these images lead us toward the inviolable enigma of the otherness in all things, and by doing so, they animate presence. Aaron Fink’s making—forming images with the pigment, the clay, and the fiberglass—aims to make strangeness even stranger, so that we may learn something new.”

In addition to being a two-time National Endowment for the Arts Grant recipient, Aaron Fink has garnered such prestigious awards as the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities Artist Fellowship, the Prix de Rome from the American Academy in Rome, and the Ford Foundation Special Project Grant from Yale University. His work is represented in numerous museum collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, IL, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, the Hara Museum, Tokyo, Japan, the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York and the Fogg Museum at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

SELECT RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2026
'Aaron Fink: Objects of Contemplation', Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA (2/6 - 3/14)

2024
'Aaron Fink: Rapture', Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA

2023
'Aaron Fink: Slice', Jane Deering Gallery, Gloucester, MA

2022
'Aaron Fink: For Anne', Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA

2021
'40 Years of Printmaking: From the Center Street Studio Archives' (group exhibition), University of Richmond Museums, Richmond, VA

2019
'Contemporary Responses to Modernism: A New England Perspective' (group exhibition), University of Southern Maine (USM) Art Galleries Gorham and Portland, ME
'Masterworks of the Kano School from the Hara Rokuro Collection' (group exhibition), Hara Museum ARC, Shibukawa, Gunma, Japan

2018
'Aaron Fink: Steaming Cup: A Brief History, 1982-2019', Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA

2017
'Aaron Fink: Remedy', Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA

2016
'Summertime '16: The Big Annual Group Show' (group exhibition), Galleri Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen, Denmark
'Beautiful Decay' (group exhibition), Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA
'Aaron Fink: Homer', Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA

2015
'Aaron Fink: Monotypes', Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA

2014
'Aaron Fink: The Rite of Spring', Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA

2013
'Still Life Lives!' (group exhibition), Fitchburg Art Museum (FAM), Fitchburg, MA

2011
'The Expressive Voice: Selections from the Permanent Collection' (group exhibition), Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA
'Aaron Fink: Sail On: New Work/New World', Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA

2010
'Aaron Fink', Galerie d'Avignon, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

2009
'Aaron Fink: Americana', Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
'Aaron Fink: Americana', 212 Gallery, Aspen, CO

2008
'Aaron Fink: Small Pleasures', Galerie Egelund, Copenhagen, Denmark

2007
'Aaron Fink: Recent Work', Galerie d'Avignon, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
'Aaron Fink', Galerie Egelund, Copenhagen, Denmark
'That 80’s Print Show' (group exhibition), Hartje Gallery, Brookline, MA
'Aaron Fink', Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
'Aaron Fink: Paintings', Magidson Fine Art, Inc., Aspen, CO
'Aaron Fink: New Paintings', Galerie Mourlot, New York, NY

2006
'Aaron Fink: Paintings', Alysia Duckler Gallery, Portland, OR
'Aaron Fink: Elements and Other Prints', The Dean's Gallery, MIT Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, MA
'Aaron Fink: Venus and Sundae, Works on Paper', Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA

2005
'Aaron Fink: New Paintings', Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
'Aaron Fink: Recent Paintings', Magidson Fine Art, Inc., Aspen, CO

2004
'Aaron Fink: Recent Paintings', Galerie d'Avignon, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
'Aaron Fink', Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
'Aaron Fink: Recent Paintings and Works on Paper', Elins Eagles-Smith Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Aaron Fink', Galerie Egelund, Copenhagen, Denmark

2003
'Aaron Fink: Out of the Ordinary', Gallery Susan DeWitt, Naples, FL

SELECT PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, NY
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Boston Public Library, Boston, MA
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
Denver Museum of Art, Denver, CO
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Hara Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Norton Gallery of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
New York Public Library, New York, NY
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ

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