Artist’s Statement

I am a printmaker and a percussionist, sometimes practicing both disciplines within the same body of work; other times borrowing from the sensibilities of one mode to strategize abstraction and storytelling within the other. I approach graphic language through a sense of musicality, looking for visual polyrhythms and the expression of time. Likewise, my percussion work is influenced by the same geometries, linear patterns, and layered textures that emerge through printmaking. Finding inspiration in ideas of paradox and translational ambiguity, subjects take the form of comparative anatomies, exploring juxtapositions of sense and scale through imaginings of the body and cosmos, puppetry and atmospheric buoyancy, nebulae, and other puzzles.

Bio

Chris Flynn currently teaches Printmaking and works with the Makerspace Facilities at Columbia College Chicago, where he earned his MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts in 2017. After earning his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1999, Flynn was the master printer for Anchor Graphics until 2016, collaborating with an extensive range of artists and teaching printmaking to students of all ages and levels of experience.

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