Magzoid Magazine - Luxury Magazine in the Creative Space | April 2022

“I’m interested in bringing the grandeur
and gravitas of Renaissance and Baroque
compositions to the mundane, suburban scenes
of domestic life,” says Zoey Frank
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Zoey Frank is an artist
based in Boulder,
Colorado who received
her MFA in painting
from Laguna College of
Art and Design in Laguna Beach,
California after studying for four
years with Juliette Aristides in the
Classical Atelier at Gage Academy
of Art in Seattle, Washington.
From early frescos and basrelief
sculptures to abstract
expressionism, she has been
increasingly interested in paints
that reinforce the rigidity of the
surface. She has started breaking
up her images using abstract color
patterns and planes to alternately
expand and compress the illusion
of depth in the images, drawing the
spectator back to the surface level.
Her fascination lies in how diverse
techniques, ranging from realism
to abstraction to sculpture, may
Zoey has been working
on a series of summer
paintings, which she has
arranged in the backyard,
inside her house, and at the
pool. Families and friends
are crammed together in
the paintings interspersed
with the vivid colors.
coexist and enrich one another as
our gaze wanders from one to the
next.
She's particularly interested
in bringing the grandeur and
seriousness of Renaissance and
Baroque compositions to the
everyday suburban scenes; a
seventy-year-old woman's birthday
party, a family picnic on the grass.
Focusing on the commonplace
allows her to experiment with the
painting's more formal elements,
such as the angles of repetitive
gestures, the arrangement of light
and dark shapes, and the color
pathways. The bright plastics offer
another compositional tool to move
our gaze across the canvas.
For several years now, Zoey
has been working on a series of
summer paintings, which she has
arranged in the backyard, inside
her house, and at the pool. Families
and friends are crammed together
in the paintings interspersed with
the vivid colors of plastic inflated
toys and sun hats. Three Elizabeth
Greenshields fellowships and
the Avigdor Arikha Memorial
International Residency Scholarship
are among the distinctions and
awards she has earned. Her work
has been shown in galleries across
the US and Europe.
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