Dale Frank is represented by Neon Parc Melbourne, Roslyn Oxley9 Sydney, Gow Langsford Auckland, and Pearl Lam Hong Kong. And he is everywhere at the moment.
‘Dale Frank, Artist. Artworks 2006-2023’ is a beautiful large format art book co-published by Perimeter Books and Neon Parc. Designed by Stuart Geddes and Žiga Testen – and featuring major new texts by Edward Colless, Erik Jensen, Amelia Winata, and Georgina Reidwhich, it was launched at the end of May. He is already the subject of two previous monographs, Dale Frank, published by Craftsman House in 1992, and So Far: the Art of Dale Frank 2005-1980 published by Schwatz Publishing in 2007.
Dale Frank- Nobody’s Sweetie is the documentary which premiered at Sydney Film Festival. It turns a fascinated eye to both his art practice, and the living sculpture that is his 50-hectare Botanical Garden at his rural estate. He’s expansive and brilliant in it, as well as socially phobic and in chronic pain. His assistants and his alcohol and cigarettes play the major supporting roles. Irresistible will publish a review later in the year before its general release which is slated for the first half of 2025.
He was in a group show ‘Summer Paintings‘ at Gow Langsford 17 January- 10 February this year.
At the National Art School in Darlinghurst Sydney ‘Growers and Showers’ took place 11 May- 1 June, a significant survey exhibition of over 40 large scale paintings made over the last decade. The show incorporated sculpture, sound and performance, and remembering that the artist has had an unbelievable number of shows and sales over the time period, it was a joyous look back at Frank’s prolific output.
His show, ‘Alicia’s thirteen puppies in an old Adidas bag’, that is about to close at Roslyn Oxley9 is his 40th at the pioneering Sydney gallery. Dale Frank was actually the first artist to show at the what is now a cornerstone of the Sydney art scene, and his long collaborative relationship with Roslyn Oxley is evidently important to both the artist and the gallerist.
He’s currently in the group shows ‘THE EVANESCENT,’ at Pearl Lam, Hong Kong and ‘Summer’ at Rarity Gallery, Mykonos, Greece.
And new works in ‘Those Excited Colon Polyps’ are coming up at Neon Parc in Melbourne.
Whether you’re in the market, or just in the mood to stare and wonder, there is no such thing as Dale Frank overload. The titles of his paintings are like mini short stories; “He said he came from France but it was unusual because he couldn’t speak a word of French,” was at the National Art School. “She would most often like to turn up to her shifts at Hush Escorts when she had bouts of recurring Herpes,” was at Roslyn Oxley9. He is collected, adored, revered and studied throughout the world, and his work is held in significant public collections from New York to Zurich to Wellington. The pieces are huge, painterly and structural at the same time. He’s always had a multidisciplinary practice, and these swirling giants are typically made of translucent dyes, coloured powder pigments, easycast, and epoxyglass, the elements poured onto and goaded across perspex into a being, a form, that simultaneously invites you to drown in its liquid cosmos, while making you aware that’s it’s own state of being does not at all depend on you looking at it, and it could just as easily wonder off and make itself a drink. A complete universe to lose yourself in. It’s not just his year we’re living in, it’s his whole world.
last chance to catch
Dale Frank ‘Alicia’s thirteen puppies in an old Adidas bag.’
13 June – 6 July, 2024
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery
8 Soudan Lane
Paddington 2021
Australia
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coming up
Dale Frank ‘Those Excited Colon Polyps.‘
30 August – 28 Sept, 2024
Neon Parc
15 Tinning Sweet
Brunswick 3056
Australia
