by Art Statements Location: Art Statement Gallery
Artist(s): Dale FRANK
Date: 11 Oct - 18 Nov 2012
Born 1959, Dale Frank's career spans more than twenty years and he is now considered as the most important contemporary Australian painter. in 1983, he was included in the exhibition panorama della past - critic: critic ed rate at the Museo Palazzo Lanfranchi in Pisa along with Thomas Lawson and Anselm Kiefer(curated by Helena Kontava). In 1984 he was included in the Aperto section of the Venice Biennale. returning to Australia, in 1990, he was included in the 8th Biennale of Sydney (curated by Rene Block). A major solo retrospective of his work was held at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Sydney in 2000. His paintings are held in every major public collection in Australia and in numerous private and corporate collections in Australia. Europe and the US in 2005 Frank won the Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize at the Bendigo Art Gallery. Victoria. A major new monograph on Frank's work So Far.