NYAB Event - David Alexander Flinn “Nor Here Nor There”

David Alexander Flinn “Nor Here Nor There”

Envoy Enterprises (87 Rivington St.)

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envoy enterprises presents our third solo exhibition of new work by David Alexander Flinn, Nor Here Nor There, featuring an array of metallic sculptures ranging from delicate roses inset in the gallery’s ceiling to a large driftwood branch cast in solid aluminum poised on a stone.

There once was

One day a long time ago

Once there lived a King

Once upon a time

At the beginning of time

In A Very Old Time

Long, Long time ago

The exploraion of nostalgia and one’s moral gauges begins with our first interactions

with the world, when our caretakers begin to sing to us and tell us stories.

This serves as an introduction to the world of human interaction, and the beginning of a long moral molding.

The show explores the stories from another perspective, allowing the viewer to ‘hear’ a different angle to this often simplistic metaphor.

The presentation of alternate versions allows for these grand constructions to fail and begin to existence in our reality, serving a palpable purpose.

The breaking of the sword in the stone, the horse pull hanging from a pipe, a neon bulb behind a gate, are the removal of the idyllic and the insertion of the tangible.

The magical is internal and permanent.

David Alexander Flinn was born in 1987 in New York City where he lives and works. He received his education at the School of Visual Arts (2005-2009) and the Scuola Internazionale Grafica, Venice, Italy (2004). Recent exhibitions include: Nostrum, NP Contemporary Art Center, NY, NY (solo exhibition, 2010), By Request, Click Gallery, NY (2013), After Nothing, Idea City, in collaboration with The New Museum, NY (2013), New Mysticism, SPRING/BREAK, New York, NY (2012), Nuove Proposte, Fusion Gallery, Turin, Italy (2010). Press articles include Inked USA (2012), Vman (2012), Unlimited Magazine (2013), Hercules Magazine (2013).

[Image: David Alexander Flinn “IL PICCOLO CADE GIU” (2013) digital print 16 x 12 in.]