Stephen Basso

Balance, Whimsical female with flowers, roses, bright golden sky

2017

Seated woman in a pink suit strong yet warm color consistent with the artist's palette. It is painted on jute a coarse type of burlap mounted on a cradled wood board . Framing recomm...

oil on cradled wood board framing not necessary Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are ...

She once loved and lost— left holding wilted promises, growing strength in silence. But still, she stood. Time healed what hurt tried to ruin. And when love came again, It came gent...

"Rose Bouquet (Tenor) (2002)" by Aaron Fink (American, b. 1955) Signed, titled, and dated verso. Born in Boston, Fink received his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and his MFA from the Yale University School of Art. His work has been exhibited widely throughout the U.S., Europe, Japan and Australia. He has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Muskegon Museum of Art, Michigan, the Rockford Art Museum, Illinois, and Colorado State University, Fort Collins. In 2002 a monograph on Fink’s work, Out of the Ordinary, was published, with text by Eleanor Heartney. In 1983 Fink met the collector John Powers, who remained a strong supporter of his work until his death in 1999. Fink’s work is represented in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Hara Museum, Tokyo, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, among many others. Fink currently divides his time between Boston and Rockport, Massachusetts. Selected Group Exhibitions Contemporary Responses to Modernism: A New England Perspective, University of Southern Maine, Gorham, 2019, with Martha Armstrong, Ben Aronson, Gideon Bok, Sascha Braunig, Bernard Chaet, Susanna Coffey, Aaron Fink, Jon Imber, Dinorá Justice, David Kapp, György Kepes, Kayla Mohammadi, Jim Ritchie, Ann Weber Color and Line: Expressive Tradition in Boston, Endicott College, Beverly, MA, 2017 Boston’s unique approach to Expressionism by uniting works from the late 1930s to the present day through an examination of subject, process, and materials. Influenced by the teachings of German Expressionist Karl Zerbe, and the early work of Hyman Bloom and Jack Levine. Summertime 16: The Big Annual Group Show, Galerie Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2016 Beautiful Decay, Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA, 2016 MICA Then and Now, Ethan Cohen Gallery, Beacon, New York, 2013 Stuart Abarbanel, Donald Baechler, Brock Enright, Aaron Fink, Frank Hyder, Peter Greaves, Morris Louis, Herman Maril The Expressive Voice, Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA, 2012 Bon Appetit, Concord Art Association (curated by Meredyth Hyatt Moses), 2010 Celebrating Ten Years, Galerie D’Avignon, Montreal, Canada, 2008 New England Impressions II: Exploring the Woodcut, Concord Art, Concord, MA, 2008 with artists: Doug Andersen, Leonard Baskin, Aaron Fink, Don Govett, Peik Larsen, Michael Mazur, Barry Moser, Brian Shure, Heidi Siebel, Annie Silverman, Andrew Stevovitch, James Stroud. Right to Print: Segura Publishing Company, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Go Figure: The Figure in Contemporary Art – A Response to Art History, McIninch Art Gallery, Southern New Hampshire University, 2007 Fourteen Artists/Fourteen Years: Mahaffey Fine Art, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, 2006-2007 More Than One: Prints and Portfolios from the Center Street Studio, Boston Painting in Boston: 1950-2000, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA, 2002 A Tribute to John Powers, Hatton Gallery, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 2000 A Salute to Boston, Wiggin Gallery, Boston Public Library, Boston, MA, 1998 Be Still Dear Art, New England School of Art and Design, Boston, MA, 1998 Attributes of the Artist, The Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA, 1997 Working Sources: The Painter and the Photographic Image, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, 1997 The Unique Print: Six Innovative Approaches to the Monotype, Starr Gallery, Newton, MA, 1997 Face and Figure, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 1996 Grand Illusions: Four Centuries of Still Life Painting, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 1994 The Label Show, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 1994 Selections from Atelier Mourlot, Hankyu Department Store, Tokyo, Japan, 1993 Yale Collects Yale, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, 1993 Includes works by Thomas Bang, Jennifer Bartlett, Jonathan Borofsky, Chuck Close, Steve Currie, Rackstraw Downes, Aaron Fink, Audrey Flack, Nancy Graves, Eva Hesse, Brice Marden, Claes Oldenburg, and more. Fast Forward: Six Years of Collecting for a New Museum, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL, 1993 A Decade of Print Publishing, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY, 1993 The Art Collection of the Federal Reserve Board: Five Years of Accessions, Board of Governors Building, Washington, DC, 1992 The Object: Found, Observed, Imagined, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA, 1991 The Unique Print, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 1990 8 Artists/8 Visions, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA, 1990 The 1980s: Prints from the Collection of Joshua P. Smith, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1989-1990 The Age of Pluralism, Centro di Cultura Ausoni, Rome, Italy, 1989 Award Candidates Show, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY, 1987 70’s into 80’s: Printmaking Now, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Skowhegan Alumni, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, and Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine, 1986 Public and Private: American Prints Today, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, 1986 Highlights: Selections from the Bank of America Headquarters, San Francisco, CA, 1984 Local Visions IV: Portraits, Hayden Gallery, MIT, Cambridge, 1984 Contemporary Miami Collectors, Metropolitan Museum, Coral Gables, FL, 1984 The Modern Art of the Print: Selections from the Lois and Michael Torf Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Williams College Museum of Art, 1984 Painting and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1984 The New Portrait, Institute of Art and Urban Resources, Project Studio One, Long Island City, New York, 1984 The American Artist as Printmaker, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, 1983-84 Boston Now: Part II, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, 1983 Jon Abbot, Aaron Fink, Tom Lieber, Chris Wool, Delahunty Gallery, New York, NY, 1983 The Figure Beside Itself: Contemporary Figurative Prints, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 1982 Art of the State, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 1982 Boston Now: Figuration, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, 1982 A Private Vision: Contemporary Art from the Graham Gund Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 1982 Boston Printmakers 32nd National Exhibition, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA, 1979-1980 Works on Paper from the Yale School of Art, Victorian College of the Arts Gallery, Melbourne, Australia, 1978 S E L E C T E D C O L L E C T I O N S Art Institute of Chicago Bank of America Boston Public Library Bouwfonds Nederlandse Gemeenten, The Netherlands Brooklyn Museum of Art Castelli Collection, New York Chase Manhattan Bank Chemical Bank Children's Hospital, Chicago Choate Rosemary Hall...