Robyn A. Frank
Albuquerque, NM
Look/ see 02
Acrylic paint on baltic birch panel, gesso, varnish
Diptych, overall dimensions 14" x 28"
2023
$1200
About
Robyn A. Frank (she/ they) grew up in Tampa, Florida and moved to Brooklyn, New York, where they earned a BFA in Printmaking from Pratt Institute. As a professional fine-art fabricator, Frank created paintings and prints for worldrenowned artists including Takashi Murakami and Y.Z. Kami. Now, as a full-time studio artist living in Albuquerque, NM, they make paintings, prints, and art objects for galleries, retail, and wholesale clients. Their art practice explores relationships, change, and our sense-of-self through a visual language of color and shape.
Artist Statement
My work is a celebration of change. Thinking about change as the cyclical duality of creation and loss. Creation and loss like ebb and flow, birth and death, inhale, and exhale — a constant cycle. Building further, the work frames change as relational practice or relational experience. Something like the constant co-creation of experiences amongst people and surroundings, given any particular conditions. And to bring to that idea of relationships, that idea of we, as active and create-able, changeable. Just as we are, right now, creating this moment together through words and print. Repeating or reflecting shapes represent the duality of self — the innate up and down of all things — or to symbolize change across time or context. Color is used symbolically. Gradients are a literal expression of transformation, of change. The gradient fields depict observable sky hues during specific times of the day and times of the year. Color grounds my work in NM. My paintings are made with highly pigmented, fluid acrylic paint on baltic birch wood panels. Painting many, many, thin layers of paint, and hand-sanding between passes minimizes surface texture and brush strokes. I create well-crafted and lasting work that offers a meaningful contemplative respite, a place for quiet conversation.
