Photo: Self-portrait
The elusive flow state is nurtured through daily practice. Showing up is the one thing I can control, and I do my best to let painting be a mirror and lens of life.
Ari Lankin (b. 1980, West Chester, Pennsylvania) is a New York and Brasil based painter whose work engages the intersection of the picture plane and material experimentation. His work includes abstraction and representation, he approaches painting as a physical and visual based practice shaped by intuition, revision, and direct engagement with paint, observation, and memory.