Matt Fink
"Mostly Good Things"
April 6 to 29, 2001
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Born
in 1965 in Bithow, Florida, Matt Fink lost his foster father in a freak
accident in 1971. Shortly thereafter, he moved North to Whitelaw, Wisconsin,
to work on a relative's hog farm where an alleged ritual abuse at the
hands of a brother-sister duo ensued. Despite this, he earned his GED
in 1984 and traveled the country selling magazine subscriptions. Presently
a blue-collar worker residing in Milwaukee, his art records the travesty
of America's underclass struggle and the hard-scrabble life they endure.
Self-taught and inspired by the lack of talent evidenced by his wife's
art school buddies, Fink rivets viewers using images fraught with black
humor and tainted with seeming layers of decay and urban grime. Fink's
latest erasures and echoes: arcane symbols hinting at mystery cults
and third world calligraphic residue glows beneath countless Vermeer-ish
over-glazes. Like pages ripped from a borrowed library book, Fink's
dyslexic 21st century ramblings alchemically mix classical formulae
from the Old Masters with those of his heroes: Crumb, Coleman, Dali
and Stonehouse. As a cataclysmic result of this heady witch's brew are
these most recent works in his first show at La Luz de Jesus Gallery.
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"Dumb Luck" 11x14" |
"El Gaucho" 10x14" |
"On
Entre En Guerre, 11x14" |
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"E Puoco Male" 10x14" |
"Fleeting Thoughts" 11x14" |
"Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor" 11x14"
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"Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor Part II" 11x14"
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"King of Asses" 10x14" |
"May - June Bug" 11x14" |
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"Metamorphosis" 11x14"
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