Brian Finke

Untitled (Atlantic Challenge no. 33)

2011

Untitled (Hip Hop Honeys no. 35), 2013 Women have been an essential part of decades’ worth of rap videos yet rarely get the spotlight. The works in the series Hip Hop Honeys attempt...

Untitled (Lily and Azriza, Air Asia), 2006 From the monograph Flight Attendants powerHouse Books, 2008 Signed, numbered, and dated (archival label, ...

Untitled (Frat Boys no. 1), 2005 This series of pictures shows a very different frat culture than many of us remember. Originally an assignment for Details ...

Untitled (Sapphires no. 11), 2020 Untitled (Sapphires no. 11) was drawn from a story titled “Brunch with Extra Sausage,” photographed for The Cut at Sapph...

Untitled (Cheerleading no. 81), 2002 Untitled (Cheerleading no. 81), (2002), was published in the artist’s monograph 2.4.6.8: American Cheerleaders & Football Players, Umbrage Editi...

Untitled (Cheerleading no. 115), 2002 For several years, artist Brian Finke, traveled across the country photographing high school and college-level cheerleaders and football player...

Series: FEMME FATALE All available sizes & editions for each size of this photograph: 40" X 26.6"- Edition of 10 60" X 40"- Edition of 7 60" X 40" - Edition of 3; Lightbox In a uniq...

"XIX 330 v- Buddhist Monks - Ganden Monastery - Tibet, 2011 The approximate 5.5 million Tibetans are an ethnic group with specific traditions. Archaeological and geological discover...

Palazzo Martelli 2009 Chromogenic print Edition of 5 Signed, dated, and numbered on verso label Mounted on aluminum Framing options available 39.5 x 47.5 inches edition of 5 4...

Officer's Wives Club (29 Palms, CA), diptych - 1999 Edition of 23/25, 40x40cm each, installed 40x87cm, including gap. 2 Analog C-Prints, hand-printed by the artist, based on the 2 Polaroids. Signed on back with Certificate. Artist inventory number: 316. Mounted on Aluminum with matte UV-Protection. 29 PALMS, CA is a film / art piece that explores and chronicles the dreams and fantasies of a group of individuals who live in a trailer community in the Californian desert. The world depicted in the film is inspired by the photographs of German artist Stefanie Schneider in that it combines the notions of reality and fantasy and explores the resonance of both within a desert landscape and a transient culture. The characters portrayed in the film, (an actress, a singer, a DJ, a motel owner and his wife, a US army soldier, a mystic, a princess, a recluse, a movie ticket seller, two hitchhikers, a doctor, and so on), are to be played by both actors and non-actors. The story is constructed through the interpretation of real-life communications (i.e. phone calls, emails, conversations) that have taken place as the individuals depicted in the story try to make sense of events that have occurred in real life. In this sense, the story is, in part, a biography and social commentary, and the characters are the exaggerated alter egos of the individuals who play them. The structure of the plot is fairly simple. An actress working as a telemarketer is inspired by a singer who is new to town and is featured on the local radio station. The radio station runs a program for lonely hearts and a charismatic DJ uses the show to reveal the hopes and dreams of the town's “hottest women”. One night a panicked German female caller captivates the community with a painful story about a sexy “Smoke Jumper” (a mysterious and super real alpha male). Everybody in town is listening to the program and nobody is quite sure what to say. Life in general continues and we witness and explore the various interactions. The actress meets the singer and they become famous. The US Army soldier dies on his way to battle. The foreign princess discovers that the jewels she has come to sell are fake. The motel owner‘s wife has an affair with the pool boys and so on. All the while the community is united by their loyalty to the “Lonely Hearts” radio show and through the disturbing revelations of the German woman...

Buried (Stranger than Paradise) - 1999 Edition of 10, 58x56cm, Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on the Polaroid. Artist inventory N...

Car Wash (Stranger than Paradise) - 1999 64.6x59.5cm including the white 'Polaroid' frame. Edition 2/10. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, mounted on Aluminum with mat...