Christine Flynn

Flynn composes images that hinge on nostalgia to ground the viewer. With the advent of Instagram, we have become inundated with travel photographs that are aspirational. Flynn's art pushes against the genre of travel photography whose purpose is to create envy and instead allows the viewer to access a feeling of recognition or belonging in a place they've never been. She presents photographs that embody the memory of a place, rather than a straight-forward depiction.

In studio, Flynn's captures are brought to life beyond the photograph. The abstract elements in her work are applied by hand-coats of paint and gold leaf are layered on top of an image -to create a photograph with the texture of a painting. Float framed in oak with art glass, the work is simultaneously reminiscent and contemporary.

Christine Flynn received her BFA from Houghton College, western New York State in 1994. During her studies, Flynn focused on an intensive fine art photography practice. Her work has been exhibited extensively in galleries in Canada, the U.S. and Internationally. Since her first solo show at Pulse Contemporary Art Fair in New York, Flynn's work has been widely exhibited in North America at art fairs such as Context Art Miami, Scope, New York, Art Hamptons as well as solo shows in Boston, New York and Toronto galleries. Internationally, her work has been shown at major art fairs in London, Paris, Brussels, Hong Kong, Amsterdam, Stockholm and Hamburg.