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Matt Frank’s sculptures. Taking conventional reduced two dimensional renderings of
images such as skulls, nuclear bomb explosions, swirls and vortexes, Franks
solidifies these graphic simplifications into three dimensional forms in ludicrously
bright acidic or pastel colours. Composited into intricate near baroque, comical and
outlandish objects, Franks’ sculptures don’t seem to be depictions of either
straightforwardly inanimate things nor of creatures in their own right. Rather they seem
to be bodies that lie somewhere between the two, hybrids with their own mysterious
exuberance.” Copyright Suhail Malik 2004
Lives and works in London
Education: M.A. Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Selected Publications:
Pop magazine Jan-Feb 2006
The Nature of things, ex cat 2005
Into My world, New British Sculpture ex cat 2004
Contrapop, ex cat 2004, Joao Ribas
Great Expectations, Art Review, June
Art Monthly, December 2002, Clare Manchester, review of Tate solo show
Time Out, October 2002, Sarah Kent, review of Tate show
Art Now, 2002, ex cat, ‘transcendent plastic infinite’, text by Tim Batchelor
My Way, 2002, ex cat, editor Frank Lamy
Contemporary, March 2002, international news, Richard Dyer
Tank magazine, Vol 3, Issue 1
Time Out, January 2002, Martin Herbert
Tail sliding, ex cat 2001, editors Stephen Hepworth and Colin Ledwith. Benedict
Seymour
Wooden Heart, Art Monthly, April, Gilda Williams
These Epic Islands, Art Monthly, March 2001, Assembly, ex cat, 2000
Selected Solo shows:
2005: ‘I am alive and you are dead’ Vamiali Gallery, Athens, Greece
2004 One in the Other Gallery, London UK
2002 ‘transcendent plastic infinite’, Art Now, Tate Britain
‘New Gods’, alison jacques gallery, London
Selected Groups shows:
2006:
'Kamikaze Blossom', Fieldgate Gallery, London
‘8x8x8,’The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, USA then New York & London
2005: ‘Know what they mean?’ at Chez Valetine, Paris
‘Mysterium’ at artrepco, Zurich, Switzerland
‘Only minutes to live’ temporarycontemporary, London
‘The Nature of Things’, at Birmingham Museum of Modern
2004:
‘Into my world’ New British Sculpture at The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art,
Connecticut, U.S.A.
‘Contrapop’ at Vamiali gallery, Athens, Greece
‘Shape Shifters’ M. Projects, Paris
‘Mind the Gap’ at Triangle Arts. Marseille, France
‘Material Faith’ at Kontainer Gallery, Los Angeles, USA.
2003:
‘This Was Tomorrow’ at New Art Centre, Roche Court, Salisbury, Hampshire, UK
‘Attention. Vous étes face d' un espace intermédiaire...’ at galerie Air de Paris & Praz
Delavallade, Paris,
2002:
‘Craft’, Cell Project Space, London
‘My Way’, at LE CREDAC, Galerie Fernand Leger, Paris
2001-2003
Tailsliding, British Council touring exhibition, touring to Spain, Czech Republic, Lithuania
2001:
‘Hallucinating Love’ at Alison Jacques, London
‘Ego Tripping’, at Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London
2000:
These Epic Islands, at Vilma Gold Gallery, London
