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Dale Frank
‘Untitled Art Miami Beach 2024’
Untitled Art Miami Beach 2024
4 Dec.–8 Dec.
2024
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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 characterised 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.

Frank has held fourteen solo projects with Neon Parc including recent presentations at Art Cologne and Untitled Miami. Earlier this year, Neon Parc published Frank’s first major monograph, ‘Dale Frank, Artist, Artworks 2006 - 2023’, a collaboration with the artist’s studio and graphic designers Ziga Testen and Stuart Geddes.

In his early to mid to career as a figurative painter and performance artist, Frank had a strong presence in Europe regularly exhibiting both solo and in group exhibitions across Brussels, Naples, Milan, Venice, Amsterdam, Dublin, Bologna, Zurich, Frankfurt and Antwerp.

He has been the subject of career surveys at Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane and Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth.

Dale Frank’s work is held in all major Australian state galleries, and a number of regional and university collections. Frank’s work is held in significant 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, Switzerland; as well as distinguished corporate and private collections internationally.

Most recently, Frank was the subject of a documentary feature film shot over the last three and a half years, ‘Nobody’s Sweetie.’ The film premiered at multiple festivals in Australia and was released for International Distribution in 2024.

Artworks
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Exhibitions (15)
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Dale Frank, ‘He had an obsessive fondness, a desire for clearly lonely women’, 2024. Translucent dye, colour powder pigment in easycast, epoxyglass, on perspex, 63 x 47 1/4 inches; 160 x 120 cm.
Dale Frank, ‘She used sex as her medium and in no time, no time at all was a highly successful well paid artist with a huge influential social following’, 2024. Translucent dye, colour powder pigment in easycast, epoxyglass, on perspex, 63 x 47 1/4 inches; 160 x 120 cm.
Dale Frank, ‘Mathieu’, 2024. Powder pigment and translucent dye in easycast, epoxyglass on perspex, 63 x 47 1/4 inches; 160 x 120 cm.
Dale Frank, ‘His penis had deceived, abandoning him spending far more time with his male colleagues, trapping him helplessly at the centre of a claustrophobic sticky cobweb’, 2024. Translucent dye, colour powder pigment in easycast, epoxyglass, on perspex, 78 3/4 x 78 3/4 inches; 200 x 200 cm.
Dale Frank, ‘Prudence’, 2024. Powder pigment and translucent dye in easycast, epoxyglass on perspex, 63 x 47 1/4 inches; 160 x 120 cm.
Dale Frank, ‘Jason and his wife Erica from Lara near Geelong long thought and spoke about setting up a brothel catering for clients who had arrived at the wrong airport’, 2024 Powder pigment and translucent dye in easycast, epoxyglass on perspex, 78 3/4 x 78 3/4 inches; 200 x 200 cm.
Dale Frank, ‘John was overwhelmed, not by his own great credit rating, not by the overtly personal attentiveness shown in him by his assistants, not the public success he had achieved in some circles, but rather by his own thoughts, alone, thoughts in the dark, thoughts that made him bristle, threats to engage and engorge with’, 2024. Powder pigment and translucent dye in easycast, epoxyglass on perspex, 200 x 200 cm.
Dale Frank, ‘Alice, 54yo, Roseville, lives in a relationship with Mi Lae, 26yo, from Singapore, and Pip, an adopted 3 legged stray cat they found, meeting at their first Grief Counselling session after the death of Jonathan, Alice’s late 60yo husband, and Mi Lae’s, partner from the Sex Addicts Clinic’, 2022. Epoxyglass and colour pigment, epoxyglass on perspex, 78 3/4 x 78 3/4 inches; 200 x 200 cm.