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
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Nate’s use of color and texture consistently evoke a sense of delight. His palettes unfold in beautiful ranges, each color enhancing and responding to the next. Through his thoughtful orchestration of texture and material, Nate positions himself at the intersection of textile art, painting, and assemblage.
Collected and found fabrics are given a second or tenth life —whether worn with age or newly chosen for inclusion—becoming essential elements in a larger visual language. Nate’s process and finished works offer a fresh way of thinking about the painted canvas. While the term mixed media could be applied, it feels insufficient. His approach is far more intentional and rigorous, marked by a fastidious process of selecting and constructing materials through dyeing, silkscreening, mark-making, and sewing.
A new direction has been emerging in my work in the last year that connects my past with the present. In a body of textile works, I stitch together fabrics seeking unexpected visual occurrences. The materials are stained or dyed in multiple bathings of color, then assembled. The fragments are combined together with various other fiber materials that have been treated or painted. Sometimes reminiscent of furniture from one's living room or patio, a drama is played out that suggests the domestic experience, and the emotions that conjures. In this work there is a juxtaposition of color, that operates on a dramatic level. It stems from memory, politics or emotive experiences.
The work shown here is new direction which has been emerging in my work in the last year that connects my past with the present. In a body of textile works, I stitch together fabrics seeking unexpected visual occurrences. The materials are stained or dyed in multiple bathings of color, then assembled. The fragments are combined together with various other fiber materials that have been treated or painted. Sometimes reminiscent of furniture from one's living room or patio, a drama is played out that suggests the domestic experience, and the emotions that conjures. In this work there is a juxtaposition of color, that operates on a dramatic level. It stems from memory, politics or emotive experiences.
The works shown here is a new direction which has been emerging in my work in the last year that connects my past with the present. In a body of textile works, I stitch together fabrics seeking unexpected visual occurrences. The materials are stained or dyed in multiple bathings of color, then assembled. The fragments are combined together with various other fiber materials that have been treated or painted. Sometimes reminiscent of furniture from one's living room or patio, a drama is played out that suggests the domestic experience, and the emotions that conjures. In this work there is a juxtaposition of color, that operates on a dramatic level. It stems from memory, politics or emotive experiences.
My work blurs the barrier between disciplines. Like graffiti on the side of a train, the material of the object contributes to the aesthetic experience as much as the gesture. The material is the idea, existing within a painting framework, but not perceptible solely "as a painting." I endeavor to manufacture surprise, to challenge viscerally – sometimes nostalgically – through pattern and a reminiscence to household objects. The shapes and asymmetrical compositional structures reveal contrary and paradoxical elements – I try to expose unobvious relationships. As Jean-Luc Marion writes ...to let burst into the scene much more than what one desires or wills.
A new direction has been emerging in my work in the last two years that connects my past with the present. In a new body of textile works, I stitch together fabrics seeking unexpected visual occurrences. These assemblages are comprised of cut apart fragments combined with various other fiber materials such as yarn, burlap, canvas, drop-cloths or other substrate. Sometimes reminiscent of furniture from one's living room or patio, a drama is played out that suggests the domestic experience, and the emotions that conjures. In this work there are curious tropes and cartoon figures, that operate on a dramatic level stemming from memories or emotive situations.
Thematically my work is a reaction to throw 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
Thematically my work is a reaction to throw 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.


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