WORK
These paintings are from the mid 1980’s - 2016.
“These paintings are my interpretation of what I see in nature or what I would like to see. They are unique plant forms created by my imagination. I carefully work and rework the colors, shadings, depth and forms.
The process of creating a new painting is laborious, challenging, sometimes depressing, but at the completion - satisfaction.”
This was Frank's final painting.
These large stretched-canvas paintings are from 1975-1981
“I returned to the figure and did a series of silkscreens which then led to shaped canvases of figures at one and a half life size. These paintings were extremely difficult to produce and took months just to fabricate the stretchers and stretch the canvas.
At this same time, I was doing portraits which are also shaped, and this led to my later paintings on shaped masonite.”
From 1975, editions of 80. 22x30
“I returned to the figure, and did a series of silkscreens which then led to shaped canvases.”
Frank did many paper cut-outs in the early 1970’s. These are a selection.
These are a selection of some of the abstract, color sculptures that Frank created in the early 1970’s.
Electrical conduit and auto tail pipes, with polyurethane foam and polyester resins to introduce color.
All the sculptures of this period have color.
There are no white sculptures.
“In the early 1960's I was doing welded sculpture, which were at first figurative, then developed into abstracts projecting from the wall or hung from the ceiling.”
