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Dale Frank

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b. 1959

Born in 1959, Australian artist Dale Frank creates paintings that traverse between solid and liquid, minimalist and expressionist, purity and the abject. Over a 36-year career, Frank has exploredpainting's potential through experimentations of materials and process that challenge the conceptof painting by embracing the full physical transformation process of the medium itself.

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Using universal codes such as colour and form, Frank engages with the audience on a subconscious level. He transports this non-verbal communication to another parallel dimension, as if his paintingswere a kind of wormhole to another universe.

The pigmented varnishes melt and fold into abstract impressions, and unique unexpected colours from acrid pastel pink to cobalt blue are utilized. Bound to reflective Perspex, the works createimmersive and mirrored distortions, and they emit both a pop sheen and jewel-like luminosity.

Frank's work titles inject a social and psychological element and sardonic bite. His recent paintings enact biological and chemical processes that are analogous to synaptic and molecular experiments.Like living beings, the painted surfaces continue to flow and rupture. Frank remains unsure with itsoutcome but always faithful with his process and formal decision making. As Frank claims: "Paintingshould formally create a kind of schizophrenia among the mediums and aesthetics, an abstractconceptual schizophrenia". The work in its pure form exists only where you are not looking at it, forit is the afterimage in the viewer's mind is where the work lies.

Selected solo exhibitions include Dale Frank (2021), Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand; The Super Spreader (2021), Neon Parc Gallery, Melbourne, Australia; Shaun taught piano (2020), Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia; Dale Frank (2019), Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand; Dale Frank (2018), Sabco Peroxide (2016), and Toby Jugs (2014), Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia; Dale Frank (2017), Pearl Lam Galleries, Hong Kong; The Silence Rode a Donkey into Town (2012), Gallery Reis, Singapore; Dale Frank (2012), Art Statements Gallery, Hong Kong, China; and Ecstasy: 20 Years of Painting (2000), the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia. Selected group exhibitions include Accidents[Part II] (2020), Pearl Lam Galleries, Hong Kong, China; Penumbra (2019), Olsen Gruin Gallery, New York, USA; Dystopian Forms (2018),Pearl Lam Galleries H Queen's, Hong Kong, China; Every Brilliant Eye: Australian Art of the 1990's (2017), National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia; Dancing Umbrellas (2016), Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia; Lurid Beauty (2015), National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia; the Adelaide Art Biennale (2014), Adelaide, Australia; the 55th Venice Biennale (2013), Venice, Italy; Les Arts de L'effervescence. Champagne! (2013), Musée des Beaux Arts de Reims, Reims, France; Inner Worlds: Portraits and Psychology (2011), National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, Australia; and the 17th Biennale of Sydney: The Beauty of Distance, Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age (2010), Sydney, Australia.

Text courtesy Pearl Lam Galleries.

Recent Exhibitions

Contemporary art exhibition, Dale Frank, When his wife went away on her frequent business trips Alex would often wear nothing but Huggies disposable nappies around their apartment at Pearl Lam Galleries, Pedder Street, Hong Kong, SAR, China Closed 16 September–30 October 2021 Dale Frank When his wife went away on her frequent business trips Alex would often wear nothing but Huggies disposable nappies around their apartment Pedder Street, Hong Kong
Contemporary art exhibition, Group Exhibition, Dystopian Forms at Pearl Lam Galleries, H Queen's, Hong Kong, SAR, China Closed 27 August–10 September 2018 Group Exhibition Dystopian Forms H Queen's, Hong Kong
Contemporary art exhibition, Dale Frank, Solo Exhibition at Pearl Lam Galleries, Pedder Street, Hong Kong, SAR, China Closed 18 January–9 March 2017 Dale Frank Solo Exhibition Pedder Street, Hong Kong

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Hairy Musso Gavin’s naked Sunday afternoons. 1. by Dale Frank contemporary artwork painting
Dale Frank Hairy Musso Gavin’s naked Sunday afternoons. 1., 2021 Interference colour pigments in epoxyglass, on perspex
150 x 100 cm
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Delun often dreamed of taking his parents from theirhome in Zhuhai Charming Holiday 3 star Polished Hotelin Macao, in the boot of his Volkswagen Lavida, toHohhot were he now lives as a government Climatescientist, poisoning them, and burying their bodies in thenearby sand desert, and claiming their Casino creditsand Cathay Pacific Airline Frequent Flyer points. 2. by Dale Frank contemporary artwork painting
Dale Frank Delun often dreamed of taking his parents from their home in Zhuhai Charming Holiday 3 star Polished Hotel in Macao, in the boot of his Volkswagen Lavida, to Hohhot were he now lives as a government Climate scientist, poisoning them, and burying their bodies in the nearby sand desert, and claiming their Casino credits and Cathay Pacific Airline Frequent Flyer points. 2., 2021 Interference colour pigments in epoxyglass, on perspex
160 x 120 cm
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AJ, Colin and Trent by Dale Frank contemporary artwork painting
Dale Frank AJ, Colin and Trent Interference colour pigments in easycast, epoxyglass, on perspex
200 x 150 cm
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James and John by Dale Frank contemporary artwork painting
Dale Frank James and John, 2021 Interference colour pigments in epoxyglass, epoxyglass, on perspex
200 x 200 cm
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Crouching in the Korengal Valley simultaneous dual latrine by Dale Frank contemporary artwork painting
Dale Frank Crouching in the Korengal Valley simultaneous dual latrine, 2021 Interference colour pigments in easycast, on varnish, epoxyglass, on perspex
200 x 150 cm
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When his wife went away on her frequent business trips Alex would often wear nothing but Huggies disposable nappies around their apartment by Dale Frank contemporary artwork painting
Dale Frank When his wife went away on her frequent business trips Alex would often wear nothing but Huggies disposable nappies around their apartment, 2021 Interference colour pigments in easycast, epoxyglass on perspex
200 x 150 cm
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Hairy Musso Gavin’s naked Sunday afternoons. 4. by Dale Frank contemporary artwork painting
Dale Frank Hairy Musso Gavin’s naked Sunday afternoons. 4., 2021 Interference colour pigments in epoxyglass on perspex
150 x 100 cm
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Grasshoppers as a term of affection by Dale Frank contemporary artwork painting
Dale Frank Grasshoppers as a term of affection, 2016 Varnish pieces in liquid glass on Perspex
160 x 120 x 7 cm
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Dale Frank In Ocula Magazine

Spring1883 in Melbourne: Artist Highlights Ocula Insight Spring1883 in Melbourne: Artist Highlights By Sherry Paik

This year, Melbourne's Spring1883 art fair returns with an online programme featuring 29 galleries from Australia and New Zealand.

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The West Bund Art & Design fair seals Shanghai art's gentrification Ocula Feature The West Bund Art & Design fair seals Shanghai art's gentrification By Sam Gaskin, Shanghai

As the strength of global galleries attending has increased, the proportion of participating galleries with a base in Shanghai has decreased.

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Dale Frank at Art Los Angeles Contemporary Ocula Insight Dale Frank at Art Los Angeles Contemporary

I feel as though the new paintings are much more intimate as opposed to purely reflecting what the viewer sees or projects.

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Dale Frank In Ocula Advisory

Explore Sydney Contemporary: Artwork Highlights Advisory Perspective Explore Sydney Contemporary: Artwork Highlights 11 November 2021

'Explore Sydney Contemporary', the digital edition of Australian art fair Sydney Contemporary, runs until 21 November 2021. Ocula Advisory presents their selection of artwork highlights.

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Dale Frank at Pearl Lam Galleries Hong Kong Related Press Dale Frank at Pearl Lam Galleries Hong Kong 8 March 2017, ArtAsiaPacific

Entering Dale Frank’s solo exhibition at Pearl Lam Galleries in Hong Kong was comparable to stepping into a parallel universe where shapes are distorted and luminescent colors reign supreme. It was an

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Material world: Dale Frank latest explorations in paint, resin and fire foam Related Press Material world: Dale Frank latest explorations in paint, resin and fire foam 27 January 2017, Wallpaper*

‘It is not important to me if the image is flat or extends so far out from the wall that it touches the floor.'

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Hotel Windsor to become a contemporary art hub for Spring 1883 Related Press Hotel Windsor to become a contemporary art hub for Spring 1883 14 August 2016, The Weekly Review

A sculpture in the bathtub, a horse on the couch and a disco in the loo are just some of the ways artworks have been exhibited at what is emerging as Melbourne’s most exciting art fair. The Hotel Windsor is, once again, about to be transformed by SPRING 1883, a high-end contemporary art show to be held as part of Melbourne’s Art...

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'Structures of Recollection: Contemporary Approaches to Materials and Memory' at Pearl Lam Galleries, Hong Kong Related Press 'Structures of Recollection: Contemporary Approaches to Materials and Memory' at Pearl Lam Galleries, Hong Kong 23 April 2016, ArtAsiaPacific

Exploring the idea of memory recollection, Paul Moorhouse, curator of 20th-century art at London’s National Portrait Gallery, drew together six international artists for Structures of Recollection: Contemporary Approaches to Materials and Memory,  currently showing at Pearl Lam Galleries in Hong Kong. Moorhouse’s curatorial...

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