Artospective: Figurative Paintings by Zoey Frank from Colorado.

SONYA - Oil on panel, 36 x 36", 2016

An Interview with Zoey Frank.

Who and where are you from?

My name is Zoey Frank, I was born in Boulder, Colorado in 1987.

How you got into this?

I spent a lot of my time making things when I was a kid. In 7th grade my class had a unit on the Renaissance and I decided that I wanted to be a painter when I grew up. Instead of finishing college I studied traditional painting techniques in an atelier format with Juliette Aristides, and then went on to get an MFA in painting from Laguna College of Art and Design.

What is your driving force?

My innate urge to make things has become focused on trying to get better painting. Painting becomes more complex and elusive the more I work at it and that keeps me excited and propels me forward.

What kind of work you do and why?

I work representationally because my initial love of art came form the renaissance and baroque, but my work has been shifting as I’ve become more interested in modernism. I like how one question leads to another as I move from painting to painting. There’s a new little experiment in each one. Lately these experiments have been about close color shifts, simplifying shapes into larger planes, tracking changes in the subject over time, and ways to slow down the reading of the image.