Out of the Ordinary by Aaron Fink

Aaron Fink
Critical Praise

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Out of the Ordinary
By Aaron Fink

ISBN 1-889097-61-6

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This beautiful, deluxe 230-page art book features the work of major artist, Boston-born painter Aaron Fink. Eleanor Heartney, features writer for Art in America, has written the definitive essay on Aaron Fink's work around which the book is fashioned. The book contains 203 color plates each exhibiting Fink's expertise with paint, color, stroke and texture. The strength of this painterly skill in creating evocative illusions of form of ordinary commonplace objects draws a wide range of audience. Finks art appeals to a broad audience because of its subject matter while his technique and execution are widely regarded as masterful.

Aaron Fink has gained recognition through the masterful painting of objects we all know, use and see daily. The universality of this subject matter i.e.: fruit, flowers, sandwiches, matrches, light bulbs, coffee cups, etc. coupled with his widely recognized artistic virtuosity within different media draws the viewer into a personal and intimate relationship with each work.

Fink is in major museum collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Museum of Modern Art, NY; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; National Gallery of Art, Washington DC and the Denver Museum of Art. Fink's work is also in collections of the New York Public Library, Sundance Institute, Paine Webber, Chase Bank, Citizens Bank, and Wellington Corporation.

Eleanor Heartney is an independent art critic. A recipient of the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Distinction in Art Criticism, she is a contributing editor to Art in America and Artpress. Her previous books are Critical Condition: American Culture at the Crossroads (Cambridge University Press) and Postmodernism (Tate Modern and Cambridge University Presses).

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