Kim Fink
Kim Fink
Kim William Fink received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Painting from the Museum Art School (now the Pacific Northwest College of Art), Portland, Oregon in 1975, studying painting from Mike Russo and printmaking from Clifford Smith, the first Education Director of Tamarind Institute. In 1979, he graduated form Tyler School of Art at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA and Rome, Italy with an MFA in Printmaking, studying under Romas Viesulas, John Dowel and Rochelle Toner.
My work primarily is an act of exploration and discovery. Working with a vocabulary of accumulated images drawn largely from contemporary mass-media, and influenced by banal objects, myth, philosophy, literature and political and social concerns. I hone down these images to essential visual elements. I make the best use of process and media to inform and express my ideas. Open-ended outcomes of this process have no obvious interpretations, all the while loading the viewer ultimately to the word’s rich encoded patterns of identity and place. These arrangements attempt to create a resonance between color and objects and the space they occupy, creating a visual poetry.
