PAST PROJECT
Robert Flynn
Paintings & Drawings
September 9 - November 11, 2012
WORK
ABOUT
Robert Flynn
Born October 25, 1967
Died September 23, 2007
Robert Flynn received his MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ and his BFA from Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL. Flynn's work was exhibited in several group and solo shows across the country since the early 1990s.
Flynn's late work was heavily influenced by gardening, yard work and the competition in American culture for the "trophy lawn." Creating sculpture, drawings and paintings that celebrated the various elements of the yard, Flynn objectified nature – making the backyard a modern day fetish.
Flynn's work can be found in collections across the country, such as Bascom Palmer Eye Institute; University of Miami, Naples, FL; Cisneros Capital Group, Miami, FL; Hale & Dorr LLP, Boston, MA; Key Largo Grand Resort; Marriott Corporate Collection; Neiman Marcus Corporate Collection; Miami Dade Public Library; Omni Hotel, Orlando; Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI.
awards
2006/97 Artist Fellowship: Florida Individual Artist Award
2000 Tigertail Artist Award
Chestler Contemporary Visual Artist Award / Dade Community Foundation
1996 Artist Fellowship: National Endowment for the Arts / Southern Arts Federation
one person exhibitions
2007 Koelsch Gallery, Houston, TX
2006 Verdure, Walker Fine Art, Denver, CO
Special Summer Time Offer, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY
Lot Lines, CRC Gallery, Miami, FL
2005 Garden Variety, Barbara Gillman Gallery, Miami, FL
2003 Elements: Selections from 1992-2002, CRC Gallery, Miami, FL
2002 Spiller Vincenty Gallery, Jacksonville, FL
2001 Rice Polak Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Peep, Wolfsonian Museum, Miami Beach, FL
2000 Wallpaper, Miami International Airport, Florida-Brazil Festival
1998 Marked, The Chocolate Factory, London, UK
1997 New Works, Cindric Meyer Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
1996 Fancy, Art 800, Miami Beach, FL
New Works, Alliance Gallery, Miami Beach, FL
1994 621 Gallery, Tallahassee, FL
selected group exhibitions
2006 Au Courant, Bentley Projects, Phoenix, AZ
Images on the Edge; Interpreting the American Coastline, Florida Gulf Coast University, Ft Myers, FL
Home and Garden, Lisa Coscino Gallery, Monterrey, CA
2005 All-Terrain, Average Industries, Miami, FL
A New View, Julie Baker Fine Art, Grass Valley, CA
Between the Lines, Broward Community College Gallery, Davie, FL
2004 Mark Humphrey Gallery, Southampton, NY
Rice Polak Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2003 Soho Myriad Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Rice Polak Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Miami Rocks, NJ curated by Barbara Frank
2002 Stewart Gallery, Boise, ID
The Miami Alphabet, Miami-Dade Public Library, Miami, FL
Mark Humphrey Gallery, South Hampton, NY
2001 New Works, Rice Polak Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Subdivisions, Art800, Miami Beach, FL
2000 Making Art in Miami: Travels in Hyperreality, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Home Invasion, Eugenia Vargas, Miami, FL
Down to Earth, MIA Gallery, Miami, FL
Second Nature, Art 800, Miami Beach, FL
Departing Perspectives, Espirito Santo bldg, Miami, FL
1999 The Art of Work/The Work of Art, Art 800, Miami Beach, FL
1998 Florida Fellowship Exhibition (traveling), Florida
Press and Palette, Broward Community College Gallery, Davie, FL
2 x 2, Groundlevel Gallery, Miami Beach, FL
1997 SAF/NEA 1996-7, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
From the Core, Cindric Meyer Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
Transition/Transformation, Ground Level Gallery, Miami Beach, FL
Random Impressions, Artsite, Miami Beach, FL
1996 MTV'S Real World Miami, Miami Beach, FL
Town and Country, National Union of Artists, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
New Work, Ambrosino Gallery, Coral Gables, FL
1995 Sprawl, City Gallery at Chastain, Atlanta, GA
1994 Best of Show, Albany Museum of Art, Albany, GA
1993 Sprawl, Space Gallery, Tallahassee, FL
By Foul Subtraction, Jersey City College Museum of Art, Jersey City, NJ
bibliography
2007 Contemporary Miami Artists, Shiffer Publishing
Margery Gordon, ArtNews, The Grass Isn't Greener, February 2006
New American Paintings, Open Studios Press, 2006
Kyle MacMillan, The Denver Post, Verdure, June 23, 2006
2005 Lindsey Westbrook, ArtNews, A New View, September 2005
Cherie Louise Turner, Artweek, A New View, July / August 2005
2002 New American Paintings, Open Studio Press, Spring 2002
2001 Bonnie Clearwater, Making Art in Miami, MoCA exhibition catalog
Necee Regis, Youngish and Hyperreal, Miami Art Exchange, January 1, 2001
Arthur Fagan, Not Forever Blowing Bubbles, Miami Art Exchange, March 14, 2001
Nina Korman, New Times, Avian Etchings, January 4, 2001
Elisa Turner, The Miami Herald, Gallery Stroll…, March 25, 2001
2000 Elisa Turner, The Miami Herald, The Artful Home, January 16, 2000
Alfredo Triff, New Times, Art in the Airport, June 1, 2000
1999 Roni Feinstein, Art in America, Miami Heats Up, November 1999
Lou Anne Colodny, John Dorschner, The Art of Work/The Work of Art
Gean Moreno, Art Papers, 2 x 2, Jan/Feb 1999