Current Exhibitions

¡Life's Good Times!

I. Tink

August 2 to November 7, 2008

Opening reception: August 2, 2008, 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM

The opening reception will be a benefit for Mr. Tink's non-profit, ¡Life's Good Times!, that has the mission to provide PhotoArt and other art pieces and performance art in nursing homes, psychiatric facilities and other places where people have limited access to the wonderful sights most of us see every day. "My style of photography is highly compatible with my experiences as a psychologist, and I have a very large repertoire of images that would be interesting and calming to people who are shut in."

I. Tink, in consideration of his many friends who will be in attendance at the Opening, will offer his PhotoArt at a 40% discount for purchases made at the reception. In addition, he is giving free DVDs, for personal use, of 200 of his favorite PhotoArt images to the first 300 people in attendance at the August 2nd event. Given the large number of the artist's personal friends and associates who will be attending, it is anticipated that the DVDs will go quickly. I. Tink will talk about his PhotoArt at 6:00 PM at the Reception.

A photographer for almost 50 years, I. Tink has taken over a half a million photographs since he won his first camera in a contest at the age of seven. He now has well over 100 PhotoArt Collections including Finding Faces; People Shooting People; Talking Hands; Up in Clouds; Antigua, Guatemala; Making Waves; Dancers in Motion; Lowell, City of Factories; Alhambra, Spain; Sturbridge Village; Flowers and Art of Versailles; Samaná Beaches; Flowers of the Dominican Republic; and Flowers of Guatemala.

For the "¡Life's Good Times!" exhibition, I. Tink's PhotoArt Show will emphasize Boston; Lowell; the California Coast; Paris; The Dominican Republic; Antigua, Guatemala; The Vatican in Rome; and Madrid among other locales. Themes will carry the viewer from the most basic essentials of life—rocks and cobblestones, buildings and bridges, flowers and birds, and the sea and the sky—to how we harness the elements around us to build great civilizations.

"Most exciting to me are those shots that result from adversity or mistakes – weather that just won't cooperate or the flash misfiring," Mr. Tink says. The plan to photograph one subject results in something else entirely. "I want my photography to challenge the viewer, to make the viewer take a second look, to do some thinking about how I got that picture, or the way I play with light."

I. Tink's photographic work includes an extensive collection of photographs taken in travels around the world, weddings and social events, advertising and insurance photography. "I learned to combine my interest in art and photography with each of my jobs," and he has done so throughout his careers in sales, psychology and health systems administration, and consulting.

Two years ago, after surviving a heart attack on a flight from Boston to Florida, Mr. Tink decided to refocus his life on his photography and how to share it with others. He decided to use ¡Life's Good Times!, as a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing art into the lives of people who have limited mobility, who are shut-in, incarcerated or resident in nursing homes and hospitals.

Mr. Tink is a consultant in health mental health and criminal justice systems, computer installations, grant writing, change management and human resources. A member of The Westboro Gallery for two years, Mr. Tink currently serves on the Gallery's Board of Directors.

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