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BRIAN FINKE


BRIAN FINKE: AMERICAN PICTURES
February 26 – March 26, 2022

Artist’s Reception: Saturday, February 26, 2022 6.00 – 8.00 p.m.

“Finke shuffles visual stimuli, bouncing us between genres, eras and moods. Blending raw naturalism with hyper-reality, his lurid and transgressive images send up all the red flags. You’ll do a double take, unsure of the narrative you just saw. Finke’s grasp of the fetishistic, of cloaked emotions and stalled dreams is so convincing that you can’t help but feel party to things you weren’t meant to see.

Finke has a particular slant on what makes America tick. His total immersion in boundary pushing subjects reveal a range of human behaviors that capture the core of contemporary life. At work is a certain romanticism to his approach, with psychological intricacies of inner worlds. Finke’s portraits and stories are rooted in the humanistic photojournalism of W. Eugene Smith, and a generation of photographers – Jim Goldberg, Larry Sultan, Larry Fink, among others- whose intensely personal images blurred the lines between documentary and staged elements of outside-the-mainstream and suburban life. It’s easy to get sucked into Finke’s world, as easy as getting caught up in the American Dream.”

Kirk Hopper Fine Art
1426 N. Riverfront Blvd., Dallas, Texas 75207


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