Nathaneal Flink

Flink's aesthetic vocabulary involves searching for emotive and pure gestures that suggest a relationship with other compositional elements. Flink's most recent work utilizes unlikely combinations of mark, color, and pattern that suggest open-ended narratives relating to domestic experience, consumerism, and an urbanized world. 

Thematically my work is a reaction to throwing away culture and overt American commercialism. I utilize found and recycled textiles (often originating from furniture), sewing them together with bright thread, to reformulate compositions into new collaged amalgamations. My work is a study of the superficiality of society and relationships. Utilizing techniques from the world of textiles, my work offers subtle challenges to masculinity. It is an exorcism and an intuitive unearthing of narratives relating to personal history that bring about vulnerability and innocence both in terms of the personal-familial as well as cultural manifestations