Vivian Flynn
“Lacing Arms”
January 11- March- 6, 2008
Reception: Friday, January 11 6:00-8:00
Artist dialogue: Saturday 10:30–12:00 February 2nd, 2008
First Standard Art Gallery
1000 Wilshire Blvd #100
LA, CA 90017
First Standard Art Galley announces the opening of the solo painting exhibit ”Lacing Arms.”
This exhibition features twenty (20) sanctuary paintings from the artist’s latest body of work and includes paintings from her signature work “Urgency of Being,” conveying a deepening of the theme of constructed sanctuary.
“Flynn seeks to preserve and celebrate her sense of place and voice within our natural world while coded messages stored in time and memory, are inherent in each work.
Her [Vivian Flynn's] structures are at once physical, (the hand of the artist is always present), and deeply personal. The intimate work of this artist, which easily combines the mundane with the more heroic aspects of art-making, conveys the simple yet elusive purpose of expression: the artist as keen observer, and the ability to create meditative, thought provoking and challenging works of art.”- Paul Evans
“After years of creating virtual and actual landscapes inspired by the effects of aircraft shadows sweeping our environment, I began a process of layering metallic skins over seeds and natural detritus materials. My paintings evolved into diverse luminous topographies.
Rips, tears and patches occurred, punctuating my urgency to create their grounds and moorings. The reflexive skin of each metallic relief echoes an underlying fragility inherent in refuged territories.”-- VF
Vivian Flynn is a graduate of Chouinard art institute in Los Angeles and studied photography at The Rhode Island School of Design. Her work has been exhibited in numerous museum and gallery shows, noteably, the Newport Harbor Museums’ “California State of the Landscape 1889-1989” Curated by BettyTurnbull and the Oceanside Museums’ “Fifty Years of Chouinard.”
She currently teaches painting at the Flynn Art Studios in Atwater Village. And continues to develop the permanent landscape installation, “A Natural Extension,”living oak grove that defines the contours of the SST Concorde on a terraced slope in Los Angeles’s Elysian Park.
