Frank Gaard, Roundabout, from Screen Prints 1970
Frank Gaard
1944-
Date
1970
Medium Specific
Color screenprint on coated ivory card
Edition / State
95/200
Classification
Print
Dimensions
15 x 15 in. (38.1 x 38.1 cm)
Accession Number
2004.45.20.38
Memo / Artist Statement
“My work comes out of that formalist tradition of Hans Hoffman paintings, and even Cézanne in the past: I was trained intellectually to think of the painting as an object that I’m designing using colors and forms, but by adding the element of the caricature to the image, I was playing that middle-ground of abstraction. The figure is abstracted but it is still recognizable as a figure. I think that the element of abstraction in my work is where the caricature arises. You have to seize the person by the collar and tell them to feel good, or be happy or enjoy yourself. The pictures have that quality. Marcel Duchamp said that a picture that does not shock is not worth painting. And I think that it is true.”
(https://www.telluridegallery.com/artist/Frank_Gaard/biography/, 2020)
(https://www.telluridegallery.com/artist/Frank_Gaard/biography/, 2020)
Biography
Known for his brash personality and his idiosyncratic art practice, the Minneapolis-based painter has made an indelible mark on the local visual arts community over the past four decades. Using a vibrant, sometimes acrid palette, Gaard offers up satire through imagery derived from his emotional life, intellectual and political obsessions, and relationships, skewering pop culture excesses as well as academic and art world elitism.
(https://www.telluridegallery.com/artist/Frank_Gaard/biography/, 2020)
PBS documentary: https://www.pbs.org/video/Frank-Gaard-594339H-1/
(https://www.telluridegallery.com/artist/Frank_Gaard/biography/, 2020)
PBS documentary: https://www.pbs.org/video/Frank-Gaard-594339H-1/
Date of Bio