Zoey Frank was born in 1987 in Boulder, Colorado and followed a four-year classical painting course at the Gage Academy of Art in Seattle. She was supervised by Juliette Aristides and then obtained her master’s degree in Fine Arts at the Laguna College of Art and Design. She has received several awards, including three Elizabeth Greenshields scholarships and the Avigdor Arikha Memorial International Residency Scholarship.
Her work has appeared in Fine Art Connoisseur, American Art Collector, International Artist’s Magazine, and Southwest Art. She won the Artist’s Magazine All Media Competition Grand Prize in 2012 and recieved the Hudson River Fellowship in 2012. She has also recieved study grants from the Albert K Murray Foundation, the Stacy Foundation, and the Art Renewal Center.
Time has been a central element in her paintings, and she paints from motifs that change over time. She has become increasingly interested in pictorial space and pulls ideas from different historical periods. This focus has led to the introduction of abstract elements into her work.
“No one system used to create the illusion of space is more natural or accurate than the others, but each represents a distinct way of perceiving the world.”
She has been working on larger scale multi-figure compositions with closely packed figures. Her paintings draw from art history and sometimes use a specific painting as the underlying armature. She is interested in the relationships from one figure to the next and how bodies press against each other.
She finds unexpected visual pathways that move the eye through the painting. The complexity of juggling so many elements at once is exciting. She makes intuitive and spontaneous changes while painting.
Q: What defines Zoey Frank’s artistic style
A: Her exploration of time and pictorial space, blending figurative and abstract elements. She draws from art history and creates complex multi-figure compositions with life-sized figures. Her work is known for its intellectual depth and visual complexity.