CHRISTINE FLYNN
Artwork
Photography with mixed media finished in resin 60 x 40 in. Edition of 7
Photography with mixed media finished in resin 60 x 36 in. Edition of 7, Variation I/III
Mixed media and resin 36 x 36 in. Edition of 3
Photography with mixed media finished in resin 60 x 40 in. Edition of 7
Biography
Finding inspiration in rural and urban scenery, Christine Flynn creates mixed-media works that are both timeless and unique. Flynn photographs everyday sights and landscapes: a field of buffalo in the snow, a lifeguard station on a beach, electrical towers above a streetcar. She augments her large-scale photographs with graphic elements—lines and numbers that often suggest the markings of analog film processes—coating their surfaces with high-gloss resin. The resulting images appear softened and timeworn, as though seen through a nostalgic haze.
The experience of traveling is central to Flynn’s work. Based in Toronto, she photographs across north America, from the California coast to the forests of New York state, and her images conjure a feeling of longing and wanderlust.
Their perspective is one of distance: mountainsides are pictured from afar; surfers’ bodies appear tiny in the pacific; wind turbines spin blurrily in the desert. Such views mimic the sensation of traveling—the difficulty of appreciating details when the landscape is continually changing.
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The artist has said that she wants her photographs to depict experiences rather than merely scenes, and in their transcendence of particulars, their ability to inspire feelings of familiarity, they succeed.
