Mary Frank Ceramic Sculpture

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Frank works across disciplines as a sculptor painter photographer and gifted ceramic artist. Shows featuring mary frank. In the early 1950s she began carving wood sculpture and studied with hans hoffman and max beckmann. Sam stephenson is the author of the jazz loft project.

Black and white prints and works on paper. In the early 1950s she studied with hans hoffman and max beckmann. Mary frank reveals herself once more to be the visual poet of the inner life evoking the pain and the mystery of our human embeddedness in the natural world. Mary frank s career spans five decades.

View mary frank s 140 artworks on artnet. She is not afraid of the large subjects nor is she reluctant to deploy her extraordinary skills as a creator of memorable imagery in the service of our darkest memories. Check back soon for more of stephenson s dispatches. Aug 15 2020 jan 1 2021.

As she increasingly began working in two dimensions she translated many of the symbolic elements that she had developed in clay into her explorations of new mediums. She is largely self taught and never had any formal training as a sculptor. The mid century modern aesthetic. The artist s market biography price levels and indices of his her artworks.

However in the past 10 years or so she has turned to painting creating an impressive body of work that is rich in. Mary frank created and exhibited ceramic sculpture from the late 1960s to the early 1990s. Jul 28 nov 30. Find an in depth biography exhibitions original artworks for sale the latest news and sold auction prices.

Painting print multiple sculpture volume drawing watercolor ceramic objects. Mary frank is best known for her ceramic sculpture and work in printmaking. Wood sculpture 1957 1967 and recent photographs runs through june 4 at dc moore gallery new york. She was elected to the american academy and institute of arts and letters in 1984 the recipient of numerous awards and honors including two guggenheim foundation fellowship awards in 1973 and 1983 the lee krasner award of the.

Born in london england in 1933 mary frank moved to the united states with her family in 1940. He is currently at work on a biography of w. Eugene smith for farrar straus and giroux. Feb 20 dec 31.

Jul 10 nov 27. Mary frank is a british born american artist best known for her abstract paintings and sculptures which depict the emotional impact of memory and loss. In 1969 she began working on large multi part figurative clay sculptures until the early 80 s.