Nathanael Flink is an artist based in Minnesota. He earned a BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 1994. Flink has been the recipient of the Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship and the Knight Foundation Arts Challenge Grant. His work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions in South Korea, Chattanooga, Tennessee and Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. He has exhibited in group exhibitions in Brooklyn, New York, Greece, California and in the midwest nationally. He is represented in Minnesota by Veronique Wantz gallery. His work is held in private collections in North America and Asia.

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

A new direction has been emerging in my work in the last year that connects my past with the present. In a body of textile works, I stitch together fabrics seeking unexpected visual occurrences. The materials are stained or dyed in multiple bathings of color, then assembled. The fragments are combined together with various other fiber materials that have been treated or painted. Sometimes reminiscent of furniture from one's living room or patio, a drama is played out that suggests the domestic experience, and the emotions that conjures. In this work there is a juxtaposition of color, that operates on a dramatic level. It stems from memory, politics or emotive experiences.