Brian Hinkle
Biography ~ Resume
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Biographical Information
Brian Hinkle lives and works in Wichita, Kansas, where he has lived for most of his
life. When he is not painting, he keeps busy with his day job as gallery director at
The Wichita Center For The Arts. He has also been teaching painting, drawing,
portraiture, figure study and enameling at The Wichita Center For The Arts since
1996.
Brian is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate from Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa with a
bachelors degree in Mathematics in 1986. He spent a semester abroad at Sterling
University, in Sterling, Scotland, in 1985 and later went on to receive his M.F.A.
degree in painting from Wichita State University in 1992. It was during his semester
in Scotland that Brian decided to dedicate his life to painting.
Brian exhibits his paintings across the United States in Kansas, Arkansas, Missouri,
Illinois, Iowa, Florida and New Mexico, and Florence, Italy at the Bienalle
Internazionale Dell’Arte Contemporanea 2003. His artwork is included in numerous
collections regionally, as well as in New York, California, Florida, Texas, and
Germany. Brian has been active on the Wichita Art Scene for many years, as one of
the founding members of Acme Gallery, and showing regularly in exhibitions at the
Big Sky Gallery Hall and City Arts. His paintings were featured in a solo exhibition at
Trish Higgins Fine Art in 2002, and at the Dennis Morgan Gallery in Kansas City in
2004. His artwork is currently represented by Leopold Gallery in Kansas City,
Missouri, Strecker-Nelson Gallery in Manhattan, Kansas, and Taylor’s
Contemporanea in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Brian has also accomplished a number of
commissioned portraits of people, their pets, and their homes!
Brian Hinkle lives and works in Wichita, Kansas, where he has lived for most of his
life. When he is not painting, he keeps busy with his day job as gallery director at
The Wichita Center For The Arts. He has also been teaching painting, drawing,
portraiture, figure study and enameling at The Wichita Center For The Arts since
1996.
Brian is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate from Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa with a
bachelors degree in Mathematics in 1986. He spent a semester abroad at Sterling
University, in Sterling, Scotland, in 1985 and later went on to receive his M.F.A.
degree in painting from Wichita State University in 1992. It was during his semester
in Scotland that Brian decided to dedicate his life to painting.
Brian exhibits his paintings across the United States in Kansas, Arkansas, Missouri,
Illinois, Iowa, Florida and New Mexico, and Florence, Italy at the Bienalle
Internazionale Dell’Arte Contemporanea 2003. His artwork is included in numerous
collections regionally, as well as in New York, California, Florida, Texas, and
Germany. Brian has been active on the Wichita Art Scene for many years, as one of
the founding members of Acme Gallery, and showing regularly in exhibitions at the
Big Sky Gallery Hall and City Arts. His paintings were featured in a solo exhibition at
Trish Higgins Fine Art in 2002, and at the Dennis Morgan Gallery in Kansas City in
2004. His artwork is currently represented by Leopold Gallery in Kansas City,
Missouri, Strecker-Nelson Gallery in Manhattan, Kansas, and Taylor’s
Contemporanea in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Brian has also accomplished a number of
commissioned portraits of people, their pets, and their homes!
A Note on Changes in Brian's STYLE
Over the years, Brian's artwork has ranged over a number of stylistic phases. His
periods can be roughly divided as follows:
Early pastel and oil landscapes done at Grinnell 1982-1986 under the influence of
Bobbie McKibbin, his first significant mentor.
Starting in the late 1980's, Brian explored abstraction at W.S.U. and into the
mid-1990s. This initial period of abstract exploration shows the influence of Picasso,
Paul Klee, Joan Miro, Rufino Tamayo and other early 20th century Modernist
painters. Artwork from this period includes stylistic references to Cubism, Naive and
Outsider art, pictographic symbols, and whimsical lyrical abstraction.
In 1999, Brian's paintings took a turn from abstraction toward representation.
Pictographic symbols were "fleshed out" into more solid illusionistic forms. Paintings
from this period are painted using glazing techniques derived from the Old Masters,
and show the influence of Gothic & Renaissance painting and American Regionalist
painters such as Grant Wood. This period includes figurative narrative paintings,
landscapes, nudes, and commissioned portraits.
In 2004, Brian's paintings took another turn, this time back toward abstraction. His
goal was to "loosen up" after growing increasingly more precise and detail oriented in
his figurative work. The new paintings veered back toward abstraction, and Brian is
currently enjoying a 2nd wave of abstract exploration. Brian's painting in this period
is strongly influenced by the music of Prokofiev and Shostakovich.
Over the years, Brian's artwork has ranged over a number of stylistic phases. His
periods can be roughly divided as follows:
Early pastel and oil landscapes done at Grinnell 1982-1986 under the influence of
Bobbie McKibbin, his first significant mentor.
Starting in the late 1980's, Brian explored abstraction at W.S.U. and into the
mid-1990s. This initial period of abstract exploration shows the influence of Picasso,
Paul Klee, Joan Miro, Rufino Tamayo and other early 20th century Modernist
painters. Artwork from this period includes stylistic references to Cubism, Naive and
Outsider art, pictographic symbols, and whimsical lyrical abstraction.
In 1999, Brian's paintings took a turn from abstraction toward representation.
Pictographic symbols were "fleshed out" into more solid illusionistic forms. Paintings
from this period are painted using glazing techniques derived from the Old Masters,
and show the influence of Gothic & Renaissance painting and American Regionalist
painters such as Grant Wood. This period includes figurative narrative paintings,
landscapes, nudes, and commissioned portraits.
In 2004, Brian's paintings took another turn, this time back toward abstraction. His
goal was to "loosen up" after growing increasingly more precise and detail oriented in
his figurative work. The new paintings veered back toward abstraction, and Brian is
currently enjoying a 2nd wave of abstract exploration. Brian's painting in this period
is strongly influenced by the music of Prokofiev and Shostakovich.
