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Lorrie Fink is a painter and designer who lives and works in Oakland, California. A founding partner of the graphic design company Seventeenth Street Studios, Fink changed careers in 2008. After painting on nights and weekends for many years, in 2009 she built a studio in her back yard, providing an environment for creativity and focus where she could devote herself to her studio work. Fink frequently travels to locations where she records the landscape in photographs and study sketches. Working with oils, she interprets images of plant life she has observed, using the attitude and expressiveness of botanical forms to examine human perceptions.
Born and raised in Washington, DC, Fink acquired her life-long curiosity about the arts and sciences while roaming the galleries of the Smithsonian Institution. Her father — a physical scientist who trained as a glassblower — encouraged her to ask questions and find her own answers.
Ms. Fink earned a B.S. in Broadcasting and Film, and a Masters of Education degree in Media and Technology, from Boston University. From 1973 to 1974, she was an instructor of Communication Arts classes at Becker Junior College in Worcester, Massachusetts, teaching photography, design, and television studio production. In 1977, she traveled throughout Japan with the band Santana during their 20-city concert tour, manually operating a multiple-image rear-screen projected slideshow.
While working in the Exhibition Design and Preparation department at the Oakland Museum in the late 1970s, Fink was first introduced to the Society of Six California Colorists, whose work inspired and influenced her desire to explore color and light through painting. She enrolled in her first painting class at UC Berkeley Extension in 1982, continuing her painting studies in workshops and classes at the California College of the Arts, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Truro Art Center, Kala Art Institute, and City College of San Francisco.
Fink's 2008 exhibition Above and Below the Surface: An Atlas at the EBMUD Gallery in downtown Oakland, California, was her first solo show. Wild Things: The Unintended Landscape at the El Cerrito City Hall Gallery is her third solo exhibition.
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