About Frank
The universal themes I attempt to address in my abstract paintings are:
truth, uncertainty, identity, leave taking and memory. I utilize color, form
and texture. Words are also often used as an integral part in many of these
abstract paintings in the form of script, printing or text. They sometimes
give a clue to the ideas expressed while at other times serve solely as a
compositional element. Script (very soon to be archaic) can often regress
into an… more
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New Cities
Mixed media paintings of the past few years reflecting the move back to the city.
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Tresspass Diptychoil +mixed media on 2 canvas panels, 48''x60'', 2015
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Find a City IImixed media on canvas, 12''x12'', 2015
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Swan Song IImixed media, 30''x30'', 2014
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Tresspass (left panel)oil + mixed media on canvas, 48''x30'', 2015
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Tresspass ( right panel)oil + mixed media, 48''x30'', 2015
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Swan Song Imixed media on canvas, 30''x30'', 2014
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Find a Citymixed media on canvas, 12''x12'', 2014
Here and Now
The present themes dealing with power, greed and corruption in high places.
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Reprieveoil, collage on canvas, 36'' x 36'', 2018
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TwinsOil, mixed media on canvas, 30'' x 30'', 2017
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Age of ReasonOil, crayon, pencil, paper, collage on canvas, 36'' x 36'', 2017
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Surface IdentityOil, paper, pencil, crayon, collage on canvas, 36'' x 36'', 2017
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Sacrilege IIOil, fabric, cardboard, collage on canvas, 20'' x 16'', 2017
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Extreme Unction IVOil, mixed media on canvas, 12'' x 12'', 2017
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Extreme Unction IIIMixed media on canvas, 12'' x 12'', 2017
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Sacrilege IOil, fabric, cardboard, collage on canvas.
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Here Come the Priests I, II, IIIOil, gouache, collage, crayon,wooden cross on canvas, 64'' x 14'' (each panel), 2018
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Excavation IIOil, collage on canvas, 2018
Aceboo series
These mixed media works are a response to the technologic ubiquity of the present, where communication and emotions have been replaced by the click of a button and beliefs have been packaged into demographic blocks on a seemingly infallible graph labeled: human truth.
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aceboo IIOil, fabric, paper, collage on canvas, 19''(variable) x 12'', 2016
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aceboo IOil, fabric, paper, collage on canvas, 17''(variable) x 12'', 2016
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aceboo IVOil, fabric, paper, collage on canvas, 13''(variable) x 12'', 2016
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aceboo V
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Relicoil, fabric on canvas, 15''(variable) x 12'', 2016
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aceboo III (742x800).jpgMixed media on canvas, 2016
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aceboo VIoil, fabric, collage on canvas, 12'' x 12'', 2016
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FossilOil, fabric on canvas, 12.5'' x 12.5''(variable), 2016
On the Ledge
Mixed media paintings of the On the Ledge series.
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Evacuation Routemixed media on canvas, 48''x30'', 2013
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End of Ledge Imixed media on canvas, 48''x30'', 2013
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Over the Thresholdmixed media on canvas, 48''x30'', 2013
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End of the Ledge IImixed media on canvas, 48''x30'', 2013
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Revisionist IImixed media on canvas, 30''x30''
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Other Cheekmixed media on canvas, 48''x30'', 2013
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Caravanmixed media on canvas, 48''x30'', 2013
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Air is Thinmixed media on canvas, 36''x36'', 2013
Summer Silence
The goal of the Summer Silence series was to create a group of abstract paintings to express the essence of summer. Reality intrudes (summer 2016). Noteworthy or perhaps prescient is that the book leaves for these mixed media works are from the John Hersey novel The Wall about the Warsaw ghetto imposed by the Nazis during WW II.
Contemplations
Abstract mixed media works contemplating truth, power, identity, the passage of time and the state of the world.
Figurehead Series
The rise of totalitarianism and fascism across the world led to brief exercise in the figurative realm. The paintings in this series grew from the Summer Silence series.
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War is PeaceOil, gouache, collage on canvas, 20'' x 16'', 2017
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I Protest!Oil, gouache, collage on canvas, 20'' x 16'', 2017
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Sticks and StonesOil, collage on canvas, 20'' x 16'', 2017
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Water ProtectorOil, gouache, paper collage on canvas
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CandidateOil, gouache, paper collage, pencil on canvas, 20'' x 16'', 2017
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Ministry of FearOil, gouache, paper collage on canvas, 20'' x 16'', 2017
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Water is Lifeoil, gouache, collage on canvas, 20'' x 16'', 2017
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Minister of ArmsOil, paper collage on canvas
Oil Paintings
Oil paintings . 2014 through 2019. On canvas, paper and panel. Oil paint!
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Summer BeachOil on panel, 12''x12'', 2019
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Autumn Beachoil on canvas, 12''x12'', 2019
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This Dayoil on canvas, 30''x22'', 2015
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History of Art in Green Ioil on canvas,18''x10'', 2014
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Night BeachOil on canvas, 12''x12'', 2019
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Harbor BeachOil on canvas, 12''x12'' 2019
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History of Art in Green IIoil on panel, 20''x16'', 2014
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History of Art in Green IIIoil on canvas, 14''x18'', 2014
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Masqueoil on canvas, 28''x20'', 2015
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Masque II