Exhibition – Coalescence By Delfin Finley

Delfin Finley

Mantellum, 2023

oil on canvas

24 x 20 x 1 1/2 inches
(61 x 50.8 x 3.8 cm)
framed:
24 3/4 x 20 3/4 x 2 inches
(62.9 x 52.7 x 5.1 cm)

Exhibition – Coalescence By Delfin Finley.

ABOUT COALESCENCE BY DELFIN FINLEY

David Kordansky Gallery is pleased to present Coalescence, an exhibition of new paintings by Delfin Finley, on view in Los Angeles at 5130 W. Edgewood Pl. from May 13 through June 16, 2023.

Finley explores ideas of representation in painting, posing questions not only about who gets represented, but also about how and at what scale. The figures featured in Finley’s paintings, typically friends, family, or the artist himself, exhibit a photo-realist quality, a mark of the artist’s skillful depiction of highlights, depth of color, and shadow that hearkens back to the Old Masters. In Coalescence, the artist exhibits a portrait series that has developed over the course of several years in an effort to distill and illustrate the weighted experience of Black and Brown people in the United States.

Each figure in the series is draped with a layered assortment of red, white, and blue rope that is carried, repositioned, and held in a way that feels natural or instinctual to the subject at that moment in time. Although the idea of weight carried may seem abstract, Finley’s work deftly portrays its physical manifestation in the figures’ posture, hand gestures, stance, and overall expression which help represent and honor the multi-perspectivity held within the Black American story.

Delfin Finley

2 Up 2 Down, 2022

oil on canvas

60 x 50 x 1 1/2 inches
(152.4 x 127 x 3.8 cm)
framed:
60 3/4 x 50 3/4 x 2 inches
(154.3 x 128.9 x 5.1 cm)

Delfin Finley

Regalia, 2022

oil on canvas

96 x 70 x 1 1/2 inches
(243.8 x 177.8 x 3.8 cm)
framed:
96 7/8 x 70 7/8 x 2 inches
(246.1 x 180 x 5.1 cm)

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Delfin Finley

Coalescence

May 13 – June 16, 2023

LOS ANGELES
5130 W. Edgewood Pl.
Los Angeles, CA 90019
T: 323.935.3030
Tuesday–Saturday, 10 AM–6 PM