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Artist Exhibitions:
Grace M. Frankforter
1948 Custer Ave
Billings, MT 59102
406-860-1093
gfrankforter@bresnan.net
Solo Shows:
July 7 August 2006
Meditations on Philosophy,
McIntosh Art, Upper Gallery,
McIntosh Art, Billings MT, Oil
Paintings
May & June 2006 Homage to
Miro, McIntosh Art, Upper
Gallery, McIntosh Art,
Billings MT, Oil Paintings
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Artist Galleries:
Coming Soon!
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Artist Reviews:
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Collections:
Dick and Roz Stern, Fort Smith
MT, USA
Jean Bruggeman, Phoenix AZ,
USA
Pete Langen, Billings MT, USA
Jim Waldhalm, Billings MT,
USA...
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Commissions:
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Artist Statement for Grace Frankforter
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Grace Frankforter
1948 Custer Ave
Billings Mt. 59102
406-860-1093
gfrankforter@bresnan.net
Artist Statement 2006
Rather than anonymity, my present work seeks commonality while maintaining a comfortable level of obscurity and discretion. It speaks in a manner that is universally indicative of the human condition as well as minutely personal. To a large degree, the work is intimately autobiographical and speaks about my relationships with the physical, mental, and spiritual world, mirroring my ideas, my perceptions, my sense of humor. It reflects my associations with other people and with me and is imbedded with clues about my interaction with ideas, concepts, emotions, and information, my needs, and my preferences as an artist and a woman. Infested with the joy and confusion I experience on a daily, sometimes hourly basis, it is about you, them, history, and politics. It is everything that is real and still nothing more than fantasy. At once derivative and highly original, it is about reviewing old perceptions about life, art, and myself in the light of newly gained information and moving onto new ground with out abdicating territory already claimed. It is about sweet daydreams, terrifying nightmares and temporarily binding philosophical constructions. Dancing lightly from place to place, it conceals its intent to blow an interstellar doorway through turbid obscurity to a new universe of art and ideas while leaving intact those things that are sound, whole, and good.
This recent work adopts many physical forms due to explorations of new media. Wood, wax, steel and plaster, bronze, stone, glass and paint unite in a common effort to reveal the current manifestations of self I offer to the universe. Another readily apparent feature of my recent work is a concern with depth and texture, both implied and actual, with the interest mirrored equally in all media. Deliberately flattened compositions are now seeking the movement and solidity offered by advancing in the direction of sensual clarity.
My art is democratic in its choice of style. Expressive use of color and atmospheric perspective activate my canvases, bringing life to my ideas and bearing witness to my fascination with the work of Wassily Kandinsky whose bright colors resonate joyfully whether engaged with the non-objective or with the geometric forms of his later works. His influence is obvious in my work wherever there are bright clear colors, fine lines, and intensely worked compositions. Formal order finds itself in the carefully balanced compositions my current works bear as their trademark, and lends stability to both the ideas and the forms contained with in them while bearing witness to a profound admiration for the highly experimental, tightly executed and delightfully playful works of Paul Klee. whimsical work of Joan Miro inspires me. Like him, I am prolific and interested in formulating and depicting ideas in both two-dimensional and three-dimensional expression with out a loss of clarity and intent.
Much of my recent work has been affected to some degree by the instruction of this newly considered hero, so closely associated with the surrealists and yet having in common with Kandinsky and Klee, a commitment to an elevation of the spirit. Like Klee by whom he was inspired, the work of Miro is playful and eerily intuitive in nature. In my work, the influence of Miro is evident in subject matter and palette as he provides a good alternative to the palette of Kandinsky and the tightly bound color theory of Klee while allowing me the freedom through his upbeat surrealist manner, to approach content I might not other wise consider.
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