For Immediate Release

William Flynn: Assembled, Combined, Configured

Through October 10, 2026

HallSpace is pleased to have the opportunity to exhibit new collages by William Flynn. Flynn has been working with older drawings and paintings on paper to create this collection of work.

The title, Assembled, Combined, Configured, describes the process. It is the truth that is the action, but the results are far more complex. The new pieces are physical. His manipulation of the parts transform two-dimensional amorphous shapes into something new, unknown. It’s like looking at a new galaxy or something under the microscope. There is a saying that, “good design is invisible.” Flynn’s drawings are: bright, dark, colorful, alive, serene, explosive, private, relevant. They flow as naturally and seemingly as subconscious as breathing. William Flynn is in his 80s continuing to experiment, take risks, and make.

William Flynn recently co-curated Gorky and the Language of Drawing: Observation, Transformation and Metaphor in April 2025 at the Mosesian Center for the Arts.

William Flynn is an artist teacher and author of Armed Chair, a collection of more than 220 drawings of a stripped down antique chair that became a metaphor for the war in Iraq. Flynn served as a drawing instructor at the School of the Museum Fine Arts, Boston for 45 years. His additional teaching experiences have been at the Rhode Island School of Design Summer Program in Pont-Aven, France and he has served as a faculty advisor for the Tufts University MFA program.

In addition to awards for his teaching excellence, Flynn has received the James William Paige Traveling Fellowship award from the Museum of Fine Arts for study in Japan, a Mellon Foundation grant to study in Spain, and a Ford Foundation grant for the production of the award-winning film about drawing called Paper Targets. Flynn has exhibited extensively in the Boston area and New York His solo exhibition at Philips Academy in Andover evolved into the visual book Armed Chair. He has had several solo exhibitions, and his work is in many private collections including The Boston Public Library and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. He has shown with Victoria Monroe Fine Art, Boston.