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Dale Frank in Onehunga

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Dale Frank, Installation shot of Dale Frank at Gow Langsford. Photo: Sam Hartnett Dale Frank, He opened a go fund me page?, 2024, colour powder pigment, transparent dyes in easycast, epoxyglass on Perspex, 2000 x 1800 mm Dale Frank,  The illusion of creepy people or homeless people, 2022, colour powder pigment, transparent dyes in epoxyglass, epoxyglass on Perspex, 2000 x 1800 mm Dale Frank, She said her neighbourhood was filled with villains and creeps and she could nottell who was straight, 2024, colour powder pigment, transparent dyes in easycast, epoxyglass on Perspex. 2000 x 1500mm Dale Frank, There their lovemaking was extremely messy..., 2024, colour powder pigment, transparent dyes in epoxyglass, epoxyglass onPerspex, 2000 x 2600 mm Dale Frank, She often lost all sense of time, dinner, work...2023, colour powder pigment, transparent dyes in rpoxyglass, epoxyglass on Perspex, 2000 x 2000 mm Dale Frank, He chainsmoked Long Beach Red..., 2024, colour powder pigment, transparent dyes in epoxyglass, epoxyglass on Perspex, 2000 x 1400 x 550 mm Dale Frank, Sleeping in a men's hostel....,2024, colour powder pigment, transparent dyes in epoxyglass, epoxyglass on Perspex, 2000 x 1800 mm Dale Frank, He changed his address three times in two years just so he could feel closer, and catch a glimpse of her, 2024, colour powder pigment, transparent dyes in epoxyglass, epoxyglass on Perspex, 2000 x 2000 mm  Dale Frank, He did not realise rock bottom had a basement until he started dating Cassandra, 2024,colour powder pigment, transparent dyes in epoxyglass, epoxyglass on Perspex, 2000 x 2000 mm   Dale Frank, The tenuous flexing orientalist nature of their relationship only became apparent whenhe wanted to bbq on their balcony, not for obvious reasons, 2024, colour powder pigment, transparent dyes in easycast, epoxyglass on Perspex, 2000 x 1500 mm Dale Frank, She would always send him texts, saying what about next week, 2024, colur powder pigment, transparent dyes in easycast, epoxyglass on Perspex, 2000 x 1500 mm

The works proclaim themselves as ‘drawn sculptures', three-dimensional items projecting from a plane, that are produced by the artist's arm movements functioning in ‘drawing mode.' Here drawing instantly becomes sculpture, for it is not a preparatory ethos where several stages are anticipated, resulting in a transitional sequence where a future image is envisaged and then produced. The end result very quickly emerges at the beginning.

Onehunga


Dale Frank

 

Dale Frank


8 March - 4 April 2025

In this riveting selection of 23 highly evocative Dale Frank epoxy-glass on Perspex paintings, we (as initially exhausted ‘travellers venturing to the outer suburbs’) are treated to a vast range of swirling mingling streams of transparent effervescent colour placed on rectangular mirrors for support—a hyper-energised update of Pollock or Frankenthaler but really, much much more.

Cascading veils of watery chroma spontaneously flicker and pulse as they flow through each other and separate, dissolve, resist, layer-up or merge. All the while spasmodically reflecting fragments of the onlooker’s body amongst the (often) turbulent three-dimensional marks and saturated shapes.

Positioned close to each other, these poured-on streaky images with their longwinded meandering irrelevant titles—when collected together as a wall-sustained community—remain distinct. However, they can also be further divided into four or five varieties, according to background colour, texture or dominant dark shape. Or inventive projecting excursions across the floor space.

As Julian McKinnon says in his excellent accompanying essay, Frank’s acrylic resin-made ‘graphic’ is unusual, a unique type of drawing/painting because of its specific physical properties and application procedures.

It is the sweeping gestural movement and intricate tactility of the thick viscous colour application that makes these busy hi-gloss works so engrossing; their ‘in your face’ sensuality; the weirdness of the occasional projecting ‘container’ forms; the flat glowing transparency that you visually zero in on through thick coloured resin.

The works proclaim themselves as ‘drawn sculptures’, three-dimensional items projecting from a plane, that are produced by the artist’s arm movements functioning in ‘drawing mode.’ Here drawing instantly becomes sculpture, for it is not a preparatory ethos where several stages are anticipated, resulting in a transitional sequence where a future image is envisaged and then produced. The end result very quickly emerges at the beginning.

A large group of these works is quite an extraordinary show to encounter. Well worth a small pilgrimage.

John Hurrell

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