The resulting chromatic arrangements are metaphysical universes referring as much to the spirit and to emotions as to physical spaces. The paintings allude to the awe and wonder of all consuming black holes, powerful magnetic stars and galactic collisions, gateways that connect points in space and time leading to other dimensions, forces of gravity.

Exhibition Dates: 8 August – 7 September 2013

Colours barge into one another as if looking for a fight, swimming into sensation.

Dale Frank's paintings are characterised by an immediacy of process and a tense urgency of vision, the method of which he has mastered over several decades. Despite the appearance of serendipity, Frank controls his dynamic and intense process to achieve highly conscious outcomes. The images are literally brought to the surface through calculated action as the varnishes becomes thicker and more complex, trapping the colours and the evidence of the process under the surface, creating a depth of pictorial space and a three dimensionality.

The resulting chromatic arrangements are metaphysical universes referring as much to the spirit and to emotions as to physical spaces. The paintings allude to the awe and wonder of all consuming black holes, powerful magnetic stars and galactic collisions, gateways that connect points in space and time leading to other dimensions, forces of gravity – it is as if he were tapping into the energies of a collective unconscious and of the abstract.

Will Gosling, New York, 2013.

Dale Frank is one of Australia’s foremost contemporary painters. His work is currently featured in Personal Structures, 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, Sydney in 2000. He has been included in three Biennales of Sydney (1982, 1990 and 2010) and he was selected for the important survey exhibition, Contemporary Australia: Optimism at the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane (2008). 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. In 1984 Frank was included in the Aperto section of the Venice Biennale and ‘Junger Europaischer Maler (Young European Painters)’ section in the exhibition, ‘Europe-Amerika: 1940 to the Present’, at the Museum Ludwig, Cologne. Dale Frank’s paintings are held in every major public collection in Australia as well as museum and corporate collections worldwide, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York and the Kunsthaus, Zurich. A major monograph on Dale Frank’s work ‘So Far: the Art of Dale Frank 2005-1980’ was published in 2007.  Dale Frank has been represented by Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery since 1982.

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Dale Frank There is a line that can’t be crossed without painting ceasing to be painting and becoming art, 2013; varnish on canvas; 214 x 274 cm; enquire
There is a line that can’t be crossed without painting ceasing to be painting and becoming art, 2013
varnish on canvas
214 x 274 cm
Dale Frank The weekend alpaca management workshop was where they first did it, 2013; varnish on canvas; 214 x 274 cm; enquire
The weekend alpaca management workshop was where they first did it, 2013
varnish on canvas
214 x 274 cm
Dale Frank Eastern Suburb’s World, 2013; varnish on canvas; 214 x 274 cm; enquire
Eastern Suburb’s World, 2013
varnish on canvas
214 x 274 cm
Dale Frank Irritable Bowel Syndrome, 2013; varnish on canvas; 134 x 174 cm; enquire
Irritable Bowel Syndrome, 2013
varnish on canvas
134 x 174 cm
Dale Frank Traditional Chinese Landscape explaining why they pathologically hate Abstract Art, 2013; varnish on canvas; 214 x 274 cm; enquire
Traditional Chinese Landscape explaining why they pathologically hate Abstract Art, 2013
varnish on canvas
214 x 274 cm
Dale Frank Peering over the Liverpool Plains from a Cessna Cherokee, 2012-13; varnish on canvas; 214 x 274 cm; enquire
Peering over the Liverpool Plains from a Cessna Cherokee, 2012-13
varnish on canvas
214 x 274 cm
Dale Frank Self Portrait with amorous Tapeworms, 2013; varnish on canvas; 200 x 260 cm; enquire
Self Portrait with amorous Tapeworms, 2013
varnish on canvas
200 x 260 cm
Dale Frank Permanently floppy 20 second sensation, 2013; varnish on canvas; 214 x 214 cm; enquire
Permanently floppy 20 second sensation, 2013
varnish on canvas
214 x 214 cm
Dale Frank No doubt, 2013; varnish on canvas; 200 x 200 cm; enquire
No doubt, 2013
varnish on canvas
200 x 200 cm
Dale Frank Non objective pessimism, 2013; varnish on canvas; 214 x 214 cm; enquire
Non objective pessimism, 2013
varnish on canvas
214 x 214 cm
Dale Frank There is something nasty going on behind this, 2013; varnish on canvas; 214 x 214 cm; enquire
There is something nasty going on behind this, 2013
varnish on canvas
214 x 214 cm
Dale Frank French cheese at 3.00am, 2013; varnish on canvas; 214 x 214 cm; enquire
French cheese at 3.00am, 2013
varnish on canvas
214 x 214 cm
Dale Frank Dog drowning in quicksand of arbitrariness, 2013; varnish on canvas; 214 x 214 cm; enquire
Dog drowning in quicksand of arbitrariness, 2013
varnish on canvas
214 x 214 cm
Dale Frank Maitland - Kidney Stones, 2014; 214 x 174 cm; enquire
Maitland - Kidney Stones, 2014
214 x 174 cm
Dale Frank I am a genius, 2013; varnish on canvas; 236.5 x 316.5 cm; enquire
I am a genius, 2013
varnish on canvas
236.5 x 316.5 cm
Dale Frank She spoke as if she ate cow shit for breakfast, 2012; varnish on canvas; 220 x 300 cm; enquire
She spoke as if she ate cow shit for breakfast, 2012
varnish on canvas
220 x 300 cm
Dale Frank Greta, 2013; 160 x 120 cm; enquire
Greta, 2013
160 x 120 cm
Dale Frank Branxton, 2013; 134 x 174 cm; enquire
Branxton, 2013
134 x 174 cm
Dale Frank Rutherford, 2013; 134 x 174 cm; (framed); enquire
Rutherford, 2013
134 x 174 cm; (framed)
Dale Frank He best represented the methylated spirit of his times. View over Lake Glenbawn from his vera ndah after a midnight swim, 2013; 214 x 274 cm; (framed); enquire
He best represented the methylated spirit of his times. View over Lake Glenbawn from his vera ndah after a midnight swim, 2013
214 x 274 cm; (framed)
Dale Frank Emphysema feathered his appetites, 2013; varnish on canvas; 214 x 274 cm; enquire
Emphysema feathered his appetites, 2013
varnish on canvas
214 x 274 cm
Dale Frank Left with the integrated spectacle of your own failing hollow breathing, 2013; varnish on canvas; 214 x 274 cm; enquire
Left with the integrated spectacle of your own failing hollow breathing, 2013
varnish on canvas
214 x 274 cm
Dale Frank Culture and Australian Culture, 2013; taxidermy hyenas and taxidermy domesticated dogs
; Two parts: 95.5 x 79.5 x 190cm, 47 x 79.5 x 190cm; enquire
Culture and Australian Culture, 2013
taxidermy hyenas and taxidermy domesticated dogs
Two parts: 95.5 x 79.5 x 190cm, 47 x 79.5 x 190cm