A solo show of new work by Shannon Fincke that focuses on the dialogue between herself and the materials—as well as in conversation with her father, Gary Fincke’s poetry, fiction and nonfiction—to create a bond between the image, color and spatial relationships, media, surface, and scale—be it intimate or encompassing.

Shannon Rae Fincke is the Founder/Director of The Middle Room and Institute for Visual Arts, and is a Los Angeles-based artist who creates paintings on wood, clay, canvas and yupo paper. Her work explores ephemerality, interconnectivity, memories, emotions and psychology, and is influenced by motherhood and interpersonal and ancestral trauma. Fincke focuses on the alchemy of mixed water-based media and how it interacts with various substrates. She concentrates on control and intentionality versus the organic nature of the media. Her intimate and colorful figurative and landscape paintings range widely in scale and push the limits of materiality, surface, and abstraction. Fincke’s work is in private and public collections throughout the U.S., has been exhibited in solo and group shows at museums and galleries internationally, and has been featured in print, film, and television. Fincke attended the Pennsylvania Governor’s School for the Arts in high school, completed her undergraduate degree in Studio Art at Washington & Jefferson College and Susquehanna University, both in Pennsylvania, and The Marchutz School of Fine Arts in France, and earned her master’s in painting and art education with high honors at New York University, where she was the recipient of a Gallatin Dean’s Graduate Scholarship and studied intensively with Arnold Mesches.