Clouds Part 2024
48”x60”, Jacquard Piñata alcohol inks on canvas.
In Bloom 2024
48”x36” Jacquard Piñata alcohol inks.
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Barbara Mink
United States
Barbara Mink was born in Buffalo, New York, started painting in 1998, and studied with Stan
Taft, Bill Benson, and the late Bente King and Thomas Buechner. Her latest body of work in on
unprimed canvas and linen, balancing exuberant color with a geometrical rigor.
“I grew up with art all around me. My father was an abstract painter, and Buffalo featured a
wonderful modern art gallery and a lively arts scene. I started painting relatively late, and went
through as many styles, subjects, and media as I could, before coming happily to rest in a
world of the spare, the muted, and the geometric. Now I am back to color and texture, but
incorporating some of the architectonic lines I love.”
A Summa cum Laude graduate of SUNY Buffalo, she moved to Ithaca, New York in 1976
where she pursued a PhD in Comparative Literature, was a freelance actor in television and
radio commercials, News Director of WHCU radio station, and received an MA degree in
History from Cornell Univeristy.