Aaron Fink, Very Large Coffee Cup Painting by Aaron Fink, 1984

Description

Aaron Fink (American, b. 1955)
Coffee Cup
Signed and dated "Aaron Fink 84" lower right. framed.
Provenance: From an important … more Aaron Fink (American, b. 1955)
Coffee Cup
Signed and dated "Aaron Fink 84" lower right. framed.
Provenance: From an important Massachusetts corporate collection.

Floated against a foam core backing so that the edges of the sheet are visible. The two tiny tears are probably at site of old tack holes, where the tacks pulled through the paper due to the weight.

Born in Boston, Fink received his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and his MFA from the Yale University School of Art. His work has been exhibited widely throughout the U.S., Europe, Japan and Australia. He has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Muskegon Museum of Art, Michigan, the Rockford Art Museum, Illinois, and Colorado State University, Fort Collins.
In 2002 a monograph on Fink’s work, Out of the Ordinary, was published, with text by Eleanor Heartney. In 1983 Fink met the collector John Powers, who remained a strong supporter of his work until his death in 1999. Fink’s work is represented in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Hara Museum, Tokyo, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, among many others. Fink currently divides his time between Boston and Rockport, Massachusetts.

S E L E C T E D C O L L E C T I O N S

Art Institute of Chicago
Bank of America
Boston Public Library
Bouwfonds Netherlandse Gemeenten, The Netherlands
Brooklyn Museum of Art
Castelli Collection, New York
Chase Manhattan Bank
Chemical Bank
Childrens Hospital, Chicago
Choate Rosemary Hall, Wallingofrd, CT
Citizens Bank, Boston
Coopers & Lybrand
Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA
Danish House of Parliament
Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park Lincoln, MA
Farnsworth Museum, Maine
Fidelity Investments, Boston
Firstbank of Minneapolis
Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA
G.E. Corporation
Goldman Sachs & Company
IBM, New York
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Library of Congress
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
New York Public Library
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine
United States Department of State
University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Awards
Residency, Anderson Ranch, Snowmass, CO, 1998, 1996
National Endowment for the Arts, 1987, 1982
Artist Fellowship, Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities, 1984
American Academy in Rome, Prix de Rome – Alternate in Painting, 1979
Yale University, Ford Foundation Special Project Grant, Fall 1979
Skowhegan Scholarship Award, conferred by the Maryland Institute College of Art, Spring 1976

Selected Shows:

Hartje Gallerie, Frankfurt, Germany, 1989
David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY, 1988
Jack Shainman Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1988
Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, 1987
Gallery Barbara Farber, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1977
Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, NY, 1987
Hartje Galerie, Frankfurt, Germany, 1986
Leo Castelli Uptown, New York, NY, 1986
Jack Shainman Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1985
Galerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1977
Galerie Barbara Farber at The Forum Art Fair, Zurich, 1985
American Graffiti Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1982, 1981
Hayden Corridor Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge, MA,1980 less