I like that painting can seduce, that the content can be provocative, sublime, and aggressive at the same time.

—Dale Frank

Exhibition Dates: 13 June – 6 July 2019

I like that painting can seduce, that the content can be provocative, sublime, and aggressive at the same time. You never know what you are looking at. The reflective surface is like escapism; it shows the image of something that happens somewhere else. The work in its pure form, it could be said, exists only when you are NOT looking at it. In a way you never know what the work is, conceptually speaking. Painting today must live with its own contradictions, in the ugliness of its own beauty, and in the beauty of its own impossibility. —Dale Frank

Dale Frank’s abstract paintings have been exhibited internationally since the 1980s, showing at PS1, New York, in 1981, the 1982 Biennale of Sydney, 42nd Venice Biennale in 1984, and in 1983, Frank was included in the exhibition Panorama della post - critica: critica ed arte at the Museo Palazzo Lanfranchi in Pisa along with Thomas Lawson and Anselm Kiefer. Recent selected group exhibitions include Unpainting, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (2017-18); Dark Heart, curated by Nick Mitzevich, Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia (2014); Mix Tape 1980s: Appropriation, Subculture, Critical Style, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2013); and Les Arts De L’effervescence Champagne, Musée des Beaux Arts de Reims, France (2013). In 2013, his work was featured in Personal Structures at the Palazzo Bembo as part of the official program of the 55th Venice Biennale. A major solo retrospective of his work was held at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney in 2000. Frank’s work is held in all major Australian state galleries, and a number of regional and university collections. It is also held in international collections, including Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA; Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, New Zealand; Musée de Ville de Leige, Leige; Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Zurich Kunsthaus; and a number of corporate collections.

Dale Frank has been represented by Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery since 1982.

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Dale Frank He found he was obsessively thinking of his death every day, 2019; acrylic, tinted varnish, epoxyglass on perspex; 200 x 260 cm; enquire
He found he was obsessively thinking of his death every day, 2019
acrylic, tinted varnish, epoxyglass on perspex
200 x 260 cm
Dale Frank Cody Williams and Cody Walker from Dungog, 2018; epoxyglass on Perspex; 200 x 150 cm; enquire
Cody Williams and Cody Walker from Dungog, 2018
epoxyglass on Perspex
200 x 150 cm
Dale Frank Cody Sinclair from Singleton Heights, 2018; epoxyglass on Perspex; 200 x 150 cm; enquire
Cody Sinclair from Singleton Heights, 2018
epoxyglass on Perspex
200 x 150 cm
Dale Frank Cody Sonnter from Branxton, 2018; epoxyglass on Perspex; 200 x 150 cm; enquire
Cody Sonnter from Branxton, 2018
epoxyglass on Perspex
200 x 150 cm
Dale Frank The young men often said he had a Daddy’s body which he always took as a compliment, 2019; tinted varnish, epoxyglass on Perspex; 200 x 180 cm; enquire
The young men often said he had a Daddy’s body which he always took as a compliment, 2019
tinted varnish, epoxyglass on Perspex
200 x 180 cm
Dale Frank She became a Vegan after the truck stop incident, 2019; tinted varnish, epoxyglass on Perspex; 200 x 180 cm; enquire
She became a Vegan after the truck stop incident, 2019
tinted varnish, epoxyglass on Perspex
200 x 180 cm
Dale Frank He was so rich he bought himself a new gold Rolex every time he got laid and managed to have the top 6 by the time he was 60, 2019; tinted varnish, epoxyglass on Perspex; 200 x 180 cm; enquire
He was so rich he bought himself a new gold Rolex every time he got laid and managed to have the top 6 by the time he was 60, 2019
tinted varnish, epoxyglass on Perspex
200 x 180 cm
Dale Frank Huey’s kitchen, 2019; sexual intimate lingerie (black), epoxyglass on Perspex; 200 x 200 cm; enquire
Huey’s kitchen, 2019
sexual intimate lingerie (black), epoxyglass on Perspex
200 x 200 cm
Dale Frank Brian was 15 when he boasted that he’d had sex with a pregnant girl in Sydney but wanted to try boys and now in his 30’s he’s kept in a love nest by his National’s MP with a Bypass in Belconnen, 2019; tinted varnish, epoxyglass on Perspex; 200 x 200 cm; enquire
Brian was 15 when he boasted that he’d had sex with a pregnant girl in Sydney but wanted to try boys and now in his 30’s he’s kept in a love nest by his National’s MP with a Bypass in Belconnen, 2019
tinted varnish, epoxyglass on Perspex
200 x 200 cm
Dale Frank Her best feature was her thick pubic hair up and over her stomach which she kept to become a natural microclimate and aphrodisiac, 2019; tinted varnish, epoxyglass on Perspex; 200 x 200 cm; enquire
Her best feature was her thick pubic hair up and over her stomach which she kept to become a natural microclimate and aphrodisiac, 2019
tinted varnish, epoxyglass on Perspex
200 x 200 cm
Dale Frank He may have had green fingers but he was all thumbs as well, 2019; tinted varnish, epoxyglass on Perspex; 200 x 200 cm; enquire
He may have had green fingers but he was all thumbs as well, 2019
tinted varnish, epoxyglass on Perspex
200 x 200 cm
Dale Frank The really good looking white artist with a story to tell, 2019; 15 paper bags of 15 kilo white sugar, reversed epoxyglass, expoxyglass, on perspex; 200 x 200 cm; 260 x 200 x 36 cm (including sugar); enquire
The really good looking white artist with a story to tell, 2019
15 paper bags of 15 kilo white sugar, reversed epoxyglass, expoxyglass, on perspex
200 x 200 cm; 260 x 200 x 36 cm (including sugar)
Dale Frank Trent always thought the reason why he was sent to a Special School was because he had fingers
the size of engorged cucumbers, 2019; tinted varnish, epoxyglass on Perspex; 200 x 200 cm; enquire
Trent always thought the reason why he was sent to a Special School was because he had fingers the size of engorged cucumbers, 2019
tinted varnish, epoxyglass on Perspex
200 x 200 cm
Dale Frank Travis left the priesthood after years of taunts about his savagely crooked grin and teeth, 2019; tinted varnish, epoxyglass on Perspex; 200 x 200 cm; enquire
Travis left the priesthood after years of taunts about his savagely crooked grin and teeth, 2019
tinted varnish, epoxyglass on Perspex
200 x 200 cm
Dale Frank View over Rovaniemi, 2019; stainless steel, glass, silicon (butt plugs), epoxyglass on Perspex; 200 x 150 cm; enquire
View over Rovaniemi, 2019
stainless steel, glass, silicon (butt plugs), epoxyglass on Perspex
200 x 150 cm
Dale Frank With her body anomalies and attributes whenever she walked in the wind you could hear a whistling sound coming from between her legs, 2019; tinted varnish, epoxyglass on Perspex; 200 x 180 cm; enquire
With her body anomalies and attributes whenever she walked in the wind you could hear a whistling sound coming from between her legs, 2019
tinted varnish, epoxyglass on Perspex
200 x 180 cm
Dale Frank Undescended Testicle, 2019; tinted varnish, epoxyglass on Perspex; 200 x 150 cm; enquire
Undescended Testicle, 2019
tinted varnish, epoxyglass on Perspex
200 x 150 cm
Dale Frank Absent Uterus, 2019; tinted varnish, epoxyglass on Perspex; 200 x 150 cm; enquire
Absent Uterus, 2019
tinted varnish, epoxyglass on Perspex
200 x 150 cm
Dale Frank Colon Warts, 2019; tinted varnish, epoxyglass on Perspex; 200 x 150 cm; enquire
Colon Warts, 2019
tinted varnish, epoxyglass on Perspex
200 x 150 cm
Dale Frank The Lovers, 2019; human bones reconfigured, refined sugar, blown and cut colour glass, table Perspex cover; 155 x 200 x 120 cm; enquire
The Lovers, 2019
human bones reconfigured, refined sugar, blown and cut colour glass, table Perspex cover
155 x 200 x 120 cm
Dale Frank The 18 year old busboy 5, 2019; tinted varnish, epoxyglass on Perspex; 160 x 120 cm; enquire
The 18 year old busboy 5, 2019
tinted varnish, epoxyglass on Perspex
160 x 120 cm
Dale Frank The 18 year old busboy 1, 2019; tinted varnish, epoxyglass on Perspex; 160 x 120 cm; enquire
The 18 year old busboy 1, 2019
tinted varnish, epoxyglass on Perspex
160 x 120 cm
Dale Frank The 18 year old busboy 3, 2019; tinted varnish, epoxyglass on Perspex; 160 x 120 cm; enquire
The 18 year old busboy 3, 2019
tinted varnish, epoxyglass on Perspex
160 x 120 cm
Dale Frank Jake (Pommie) from Wattleponds, 2019; epoxyglass on Perspex; 200 x 150 cm; enquire
Jake (Pommie) from Wattleponds, 2019
epoxyglass on Perspex
200 x 150 cm
Dale Frank Cheryl always had the habit of farting every time she coughed which she thought no one noticed, 2019; tinted varnish, epoxyglass on Perspex; 200 x 180 cm; enquire
Cheryl always had the habit of farting every time she coughed which she thought no one noticed, 2019
tinted varnish, epoxyglass on Perspex
200 x 180 cm
Dale Frank Allied on-ramp public liquid Nitrogen making machine (urinal for men), 2019; Ikea stool, plastic topiary ball, solid resin, catheters, urine bags, plastic funnels; dimension variable; enquire
Allied on-ramp public liquid Nitrogen making machine (urinal for men), 2019
Ikea stool, plastic topiary ball, solid resin, catheters, urine bags, plastic funnels
dimension variable
Dale Frank View over Milano, 2019; stainless steel, glass, silicon, (penis rings), epoxyglass on Perspex; 200 x 150 cm; enquire
View over Milano, 2019
stainless steel, glass, silicon, (penis rings), epoxyglass on Perspex
200 x 150 cm