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. Subjects take form as comparative anatomies, exploring juxtapositions of sense and scale through imaginings of the body and cosmos, puppetry and atmospheric buoyancy, nebulae, and other puzzles.

My printworks are made using both traditional and contemporary techniques, including a range of hand-printed intaglio printmaking methods, such as etching, copperplate photogravure, and polymer gravure, as well as lithography, risography, and woodcut. Images are built in combinations of drawing, sculpture, photography, collage, and handmade paper.

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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