Hector Frank

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About the Artists:

Self taught artist Hector Frank was born in Havana, Cuba in 1961. After years of working in electronics he decided to pursue his passion and obsession, painting. He wishes to express his inner creativity and surrounding influences, the colors, textures, sounds, and landscape of Cuba through his work. From the start of Hector Frank’s art career, he preferred to paint abstractly, and continues to be influenced by Cuban and Caribbean artists working with strong forms, and lines. Through drawing, he began expressing figurative forms in a variety of media including wood, handmade paper, and assemblage. Progressively growing as an artist, he incorporates impasto techniques along with various mixed media and collage to build his images up off the surface and bring them to life. Hectors work has been collected internationally and critiqued against contemporary masters. The composition and shapes of Joan Miro, the layered images of Jean-Michel Basquiat, the colors and forms that Paul Klee, Kandinsky, and Willem de Kooning used, all call to mind the distinct influences of Abstract Expressionism. Hector Frank’s work encompasses the raw native influence of Cuba, while the images reference some of the most accomplished abstract painters of our time. “We know already that we are in front of an approximation to the abstraction, an old artistic language, present in every latitude, but here its creator manipulates the colors without pretending to cheat our sense. It is about characters that sometimes are worked in isolation like an imaginary portrait, sometimes as part of more embracing compositions, candid but grotesque at the same time, embodying mundane, familiar, daily issues without narrating them.” (Jose Manuel Noceda Fernandez, curator nH Central Park Hotel) Hector Frank’s paintings express emotion, memory and the best of what contemporary abstract painting looks like today. Additionally, he has exhibited in both solo and group expositions in his home city of Havana and throughout the world. He is collected internationally and has shown work in Cuba, France, Mexico, Panama and the Caribbean. Hector Frank is excited to introduce his work to an American audience to help promote the talent and culture of Cuba.

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Born: 1961