Delfin Finley Celebrates Release of Limited Edition Print
Artist Delfin Finley celebrated the release of his latest limited edition print, Mantellum with guests including actress Janelle Monáe, artists, musicians, Kelela, Fousheé, and Kilo Kish, gallerist, Hannah Traore, skateboarder, Sage Elsesser, artist, Devin B. Johnson and more…
To announce the release of his latest edition print, Mantellum, Delfin Finley hosted an intimate dinner during Miami Art Week with friends at Sushi Bar, Miami. Finley exhibited 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.
More About the Delfin Finley
Delfin Finley (b. 1994, Los Angeles, California, lives and works in Los Angeles) attended Art Center College of Design, Pasadena. 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. Most recently, Delfin mounted a solo exhibition at David Kordansky Gallery in Los Angeles 2023. Delfin’s work currently resides in public and private collections throughout the world.
Here is his artwork below.
