Mary Frank Ceramics

Mary frank is a british born american artist best known for her abstract paintings and sculptures which depict the emotional impact of memory and loss.

Mary frank ceramics.

Find an in depth biography exhibitions original artworks for sale the latest news and sold auction prices. Feb 4 2018 explore jennifer colonna s board mary frank on pinterest. Mary frank reveals herself once more to be the visual poet of the inner life evoking the pain and the mystery of our human embeddedness in the natural world. She is not afraid of the large subjects nor is she reluctant to deploy her extraordinary skills as a creator of memorable imagery in the service of our darkest memories.

She is largely self taught and never had any formal training as a sculptor. Mary frank s career spans five decades. She was elected to the american academy and institute of arts and letters in 1984 the recipient of numerous awards and honors including two guggenheim foundation fellowship awards in 1973 and 1983 the lee krasner award of the. The best source for viewing the full range of mary frank s sculptures paintings drawings and prints.

Born in london england in 1933 mary frank moved to the united states with her family in 1940. Frank works across disciplines as a sculptor painter photographer and gifted ceramic artist. In the early 1950s she studied with hans hoffman and max beckmann. In cooperation with the harvard ed portal and gallery.

View mary frank s 140 artworks on artnet. Exhibition catalog which reproduces more than forty of mary frank s paintings. Exhibition catalogs frank mary linda nochlin and judy collischan.