| FRANK M HERZ |
| https://frankmherz.com Direct contact link Born in Dusseldorf Germany Frank and his his family escaped Nazi Germany in 1939 and emigrated to the USA. In the early 1960s he was a pioneer in what is now SoHo converting commercial industrial space into art-studio and living space. He was a co-founder of one of the first artist co-ops in SoHo. - First called Fluxhouse Cooperative III and then Grand Street Artists Cooperative. ARTISTIC DEVELOPMENT In the early 1960s I was doing welded sculpture which were at first figurative then developed into abstracts projecting from the wall or hung from the ceiling. I then began covering the sculptures which were made from electrical conduit and auto tail pipes with polyurethane foam and polyester resins to introduce color. During this time I also did paper cutouts which dealt with the relationship of forms of different colors. As a result of negative reactions to the welding and the dangerous materials used in the plastics I decided to change my medium. I returned to the figure and did a series of silkscreens which then led to shaped canvases of figures at one and a half life size. These paintings were extremely difficult to produce and took months just to fabricate the stretchers and stretch the canvas. At this same time I was doing portraits which are also shaped and this led to painting on shaped masonite. From viewing my work it will be obvious that it deals with organic forms. Though I now consider myself a painter I am strongly influenced by sculpture. I would say that I am a painter with a sculptors sensibility. EDUCATION San Francisco City Collage Brooklyn Collage Columbia University New School of Social Research where I studied with and be came the assistant to L. Calapai the director of the Intaglio Workshop. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Intaglio Workshop Walton Adult Education Center N.Y. Westchester Art Workshop EXHIBITIONS Mount Desert Biological Laboratory Bar Harbor Maine 2015 Makeshift Gallery Brooklyn NY 2006 Loft Show Puffin Room Gallery NYC 2006 Soho Artists Show Puffin Room Gallery 1996 Organization of Independent Artists Salon Show NYC 1993 Organization of Independent Artists Salon Show NYC 1992 Brooklyn Botanic Garden Brooklyn NY 1992 Smokestacks Lightening Solo Show NYC 1989 Rabinovitch Gallery Invitational NYC 1981  nicol*****@gmail.com |
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