Brian Flinn

Brian Flinn is a mixed media and digital artist from Derby, CT whose work explores issues of paradox and fragments of time. In his digital work, he uses scanned objects, drawings and photographs as the ingredients for collages which draw from his experiences with painting and illustration to build images of multiple layers and surfaces. His recent work explores themes of loss and memory through texture, shape and symbolism.

Brian Flinn earned his B.F.A. in Illustration and an M.S. in Art Education from the University of Bridgeport and his M.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts in NYC where he studied with Marshall Arisman, Tom Woodruff and the painter Paul Vazquez. Brian began teaching in 1995 and spent 17 years teaching in the Amity School District. Since 2013 he has served as an Associate Professor of Art at Central Connecticut State University, teaching Painting, Digital Art and Art Education courses for undergrad and graduate students.

In addition to multiple exhibitions throughout Connecticut including the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, University of Bridgeport’s Shelfhaudt Gallery, Canton’s Gallery On the Green, and the New Britain Museum of American Art, Flinn’s work has been shown in galleries throughout the U.S. and Europe. These include Partium Christian University in Oradea, Romania, the Los Angeles Center for Digital Arts, Verum Ultimum Gallery in Portland, OR, Gallery 66 in Cold Springs, NY and the Modern Visual Arts Gallery in Bethlehem, PA .