Robert Flynt
BFA, TYLER SCHOOL OF ART, 1978
Robert Flynt (b. 1956) received his BFA at Tyler School of Art (1978). The core of Flynt’s work addresses issues of gay activism by reimagining the male body by means of combining the mechanics of motion and the passage of time. During the AIDS pandemic of the 1980s, Flynt began his imagemaking with black-and-white negatives of male figures engaged in underwater theatrical performances, or in the dark using flashlight. Next, with no pre-visualized destination, he would integrate these images in the darkroom with what he calls “photogrammic elements,” such as anatomical drawings on ...
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