Kristin Flynn "Threshold"
Cheryl McGinnis Gallery
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Flynn’s figurative painting are quiet narratives of private moments lived in the most intimate spaces and rooms of the house. These full visual narratives often depict women alone reflecting on their lives, the loss of youth, beauty, fertility, love. They are confronting life’s most profound changes. These narratives are of deeply personal moments with a glimpse of sorrow and uncertainty. Flynn’s compositions consist of often stark light used to define form and reveal truths juxtaposed by deep shadows which shelter the hidden sorrows and secrets of the subjects.
Flynn has been influenced by Northern European painters’ quiet stillness and cool light, the clarity of their compositions and the framing of their subjects. Flynn’s paintings often consist of domestic tabletop scenes. The egg in her bird paintings is removed and alone, outside a nest, away from parents and separated yet surrounded by the trappings of daily domestic objects. Flynn’s treatment to the textiles has a wonderfully luscious baroque beauty.
Flynn’s take on the still life and domestic interiors has a decidedly strong feminist sensibility. She places her subjects in domestic environments yet she never let’s them or us forget that there is a deeply personal drama and struggle being contemplated within the safety of their personal spaces, a drama that is at its core the cycle of life and death with all its complexity, sorrow and beauty.
[Image: Kristin Flynn "Bedroom Bruceville Road"]
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from September 09, 2009 to October 31, 2009