Dale Frank, Artist. Artworks 2006–2023 social theory and conceptual approaches

and conceptual approaches

Katrien Van Haute

By including photographs of his neighbourhood in Long Island City

Contributions include FormaFantasma

he created hundreds of puppets for his own performances

Dale Frank, Artist. Artworks 2006–2023 social theory and conceptual approachesDale Franks paintings are an experiment in raw chemistry, time, and motion. Perhaps the most prolific, radical, and singular Australian artist of his generation, Franks work made by pouring and layering varnish over prolonged periods embodies the transgressive power of art making. It is alchemy and abstraction in one turbulent, bubbling, mirror slick concoction; intensely deliberate, but searing with a kind of dirt under your fingernails psychedelic