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Dale Frank
‘Melbourne Art Fair 2024’
Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre
22 Feb.–25 Feb.
2024
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Neon Parc is thrilled to announce participation at Melbourne Art Fair 2024, with a solo presentation of new paintings by Dale Frank.

Celebrated in Australia and internationally as one of the most important artists of his generation, with a career spanning from 1975 to the present, Dale Frank has pursued a diverse and influential practice characterized by a decades-long commitment to painting and its formal and conceptual possibilities. The artist has consistently probed the relationship between painting and the viewer engaging a variety of styles and innovative techniques in a complex repositioning of genres. In Frank’s work dual modes of representation and abstraction fundamentally question the way in which we relate to images.

For the artist’s twelfth solo project with the gallery, a new suite of paintings reveal a powerful evolution of Frank’s honed technique and trace his development using a new medium—translucent dye— in concert with various resins and processes. In this body of work, vivid colours ranging from sapphire blue to deep scarlet red to luminous neon pink oscillate between tiny galaxies of colour and large opulent, gestural spills, creating a vivid, immense physicality.

Dale Frank’s work is held in all major Australian state galleries, and a number of regional and university collections. It is also held in international collections, including Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA; Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, New Zealand; Musée de Ville de Leige, Leige; Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Zurich Kunsthaus; and significant corporate and private collections internationally.

A major monograph of over 400 pages covering the last seventeen years of Frank’s art practice will be published and available for pre-order during the fair, co published by Perimeter Editions.

And a 100-minute feature film shot over the last three and a half years, is scheduled for cinema release with Australian and International distribution in June.

Artworks
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Exhibitions (13)
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Dale Frank, ‘Sue’s partner Tracy, together now for 16 years, was fond of telling their friends, Sue’s, head was too small for her body, her nipples were hairy, her clitoris was the size of a cockatoo, in bed she smelt like Flinders Street Station public toilets, and she spat food when she ate’, 2023. Transparent dye, colour powder pigment in epoxyglass, epoxyglass on perspex, 200 x 200 cm.
Dale Frank, ‘Tiffany is suing the Hornsby Workers Club for Sexual Harassment after she insisted that the new migrant African kitchen workers were looking at her in a particularly funny way’, 2022. Easycast and colour pigment, epoxyglass on perspex, 200 x 200 cm.
Dale Frank, ‘Little did the hundreds of native wood ducks know gliding across the lake that they would become part of the dialogue in the dusk cacophony of voices’, 2023. Translucent dyes in pigment and easycast, epoxyglass, on perspex, 200 x 260 cm.
Dale Frank, ‘In the afternoon of his life, the recollections of past different purposes, different reasons, seemed to him to justify his decision after all, the large blowflies scraffing his summer morning, strafing his midday intention, with the stench of the bodies under covers in the adjoining rooms’, 2023. Transparent dye, colour powder pigment in easycast, epoxyglass on perspex, 200 x 180 cm.
Dale Frank, ‘Having overeaten the overrated Prawns late the night before, Samuel lost his much admired social cool when he shit his Tommy Hilfiger shorts running to the toilets through the express checkout at Prahran Coles’, 2023. Transparent dye, colour powder pigment in epoxyglass, epoxyglass on perspex, 200 x 150 cm.
Dale Frank, ‘Marion lost her two Chihuahua dogs, ‘Bitch’ and ‘Bitchie’ and her long haired Persian cat ‘Tom’, when her house burnt to the ground’, 2023. Transparent dye, colour powder pigment in epoxyglass, epoxyglass on perspex, 200 x 150 cm.
Dale Frank, ‘Nick grew up in Deer Park wanting to be a geriatric nurse, but spent his life from the age of 15 working in the change rooms at Melbourne City Baths, until he developed a genital fungal infection, then at 32 he turned his life around, becoming a life aspiration coach at Crown Day Spa, until his recent arrest’, 2023. Transparent dye, colour powder pigment in easycast, epoxyglass on perspex, 200 x 150 cm.
Dale Frank, ‘Evan had always wanted so much to be an artist, at Art School he would often spend the weekends with the Senior Painting Lecturer naked on his bed, sore for days, he starred as the male lead in the Feminism and Sociology Lecturer’s secret 3 hour porn film video, he even had the charm to be the paid weekend boyfriend when the Assistant Dean had to attend her sisters wedding in Wodonga, which is where Evan coincidentally all these years later, is now the Regional Gallery Director, painting, doing his Art, most weekends’, 2023. Transparent dye, colour powder pigment in epoxyglass, epoxyglass on perspex. 200 x 200 cm.
Dale Frank, ‘His face looked like she had been stung by 13 bees’, 2023. Translucent dyes in pigment and easycast, ‘Van Gogh’s, ‘Sunflowers’ cardboard 500 piece jigsaw puzzle, epoxyglass, on perspex, 200 x 150 cm.