Robert Flynt
Untitled

ArtistAmerican, born 1956
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Untitled
  • from the series Compound Fracture
Date1993
MediumInkjet print
DimensionsImage: 15 1/4 × 9 5/8 in. (38.8 × 24.4 cm)
Sheet: 17 1/2 × 11 3/4 in. (44.5 × 29.8 cm)
Frame: 18 3/8 × 16 7/8 × 1 1/2 in. (46.7 × 42.8 × 3.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Edward Osowski
Object number2024.361
Current Location
The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building
Gallery 313
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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

Robert Flynt has long been interested in layering imagery through double exposures in the camera or sandwiched negatives in the darkroom. In the early 1990s, he often combined images copied from old engravings, illustrated books, and instructional manuals with photographs of figures underwater, resulting in a dreamlike mix of imagery and allusion. Here, history—in the form of an ancient funerary stele—and phantom images are conflated as photographed and carved figures appear to be locked in a tender embrace, leaving the viewer not only to wonder about the context of this encounter, but also about the identities of the subjects unseparated by time.


ProvenanceEdward Osowski, Houston; given to MFAH, 2024.

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