Frank Rodick
Title 97532,nr.1-Frances Rodick, in deathYear 2010
Print Inkjet prints
Paper size 100 x 62 cm
Price €3.000,00
Edition of 5+2 AP.
Print provenance Artist
Markings Signed and numbered by the artist on the verso
Extra print info Hahnemuehle Photo Rag Ultra Smooth paper
Artist Biography
Born and raised in Montréal, and now based in Toronto, Frank Rodick is a visual artist who has, over the course of his career, progressively integrated traditional photography with alternative darkroom techniques, video, and digital imaging. Before embarking on a full time art career, he studied politics, economics, film, and psychology, doing graduate work in the latter and practicing as a psychotherapist.
Frank Rodick’s first body of photographic work was a set of 40 images entitled Liquid City, completed during the years 1991 to 1999. With these photographs he reimagined the contemporary city as a personal vision and state of mind as opposed to a specific location. During the 1995-97 period, Rodick completed another series, entitled sub rosa, in which he explored a traditional subject—the nude figure—using nontraditional processes that included Polaroid technology, aesthetically fusing elements of ambiguity, tension, and secrecy. In 2002, Rodick completed the first set of works from Arena, a project that attracted critical praise from a number of quarters. In 2006, Katherine Ware, then curator of photographs at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, stated that the Arena images “bring us into direct confrontation with that physiological self which is, for many, frightening and forbidden -- yet so fascinating it compels our gaze” and that
“Rodick has boldly tackled with his camera a subject both fleeting and inchoate, with haunting results.” Similar in spirit to Arena, Rodick’s next project—entitled Faithless Grottoes—took his work in a number of new directions, incorporating digital technology, an expanded color palette, and much larger scale imagery. His current and ongoing project is a set of pieces entitled Revisitations, which radically rescales his work and incorporates handcrafted wooden cases as integral formal elements.
Frank Rodick has exhibited his work in over 65 solo and group exhibitions across four continents and is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards. Noted public collections that have acquired his work include those of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Brooklyn Museum; the National Museum of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires; the Museet for Fotokunst in Denmark; the Museum of Photography in Charleroi, Belgium; Lehigh University Art Galleries; the Kinsey Institute Art Collection, and the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography. His work is also part of W.M. Hunt’s acclaimed private collection, The Dancing Bear.
Artist published in EYEMAZING
#3-2011
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