GOW LANGSFORD GALLERY DALE FRANK b. 1959, Australia Australian artist Dale Frank is a painter known for his evocative abstract works challenging the concept of painting. He is one of Australia’s most successful artists. His works, the results of a practice of more than 35 years, is aligned with some of the most exciting and innovative contemporary painters of today. His works are held in major collections worldwide including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Kunsthaus, Zurich and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Musuem, New York. The genius of Frank’s practice lies in his ability to subvert the traditions of painting while also exposing and isolating the medium’s underlying conceptuality. He uses the universal languages of color, tone, and rhythm to engage with the viewer on a purely instinctual level, subconsciously enlisting his viewers as participants in his ongoing experiment with the potentiality of paint and surface. Frank’s singular vision combined with his masterly manipulation of the painted surface make his stunningly evocative compositions hypnotically beauti- ful, but also cerebrally engaging. (Forrest, N. 2014) Dale Frank has a career that spans more than thirty years. His exhibition history is vast and international. It in- cludes inclusion in the Venice Biennale, in the Aperto section in 1984 and in the collateral exhibition Personal Structures in 2013. In 2010 he participated in the 17th Biennale of Sydney: The Beauty of Distance, Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age. He was recognized with a major solo retrospective at the Museum of Contem- porary Art, Sydney in 2000. In 2005 he won the Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize from the Bendigo Art Gallery. The monograph So Far: the Art of Dale Frank 2005-1980 (Schwatz Publishing) was published in 2007 and follows the publication of his earlier monograph Dale Frank (Craftsman House, 1992). His paintings are held in every major public collection in Australia and in numerous museum private and cor- porate collections in the Asia Pacific, Europe and the United States. Gow Langsford Gallery has represented Dale Frank since 1997. SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2015 Dale Frank, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland 2014 Toby Jugs, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney 2013 Nobody's Sweetie, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney Date Custard Tart, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne 26 LORNE ST PO BOX 5461 WELLESLEY ST AUCKLAND 1141 NEW ZEALAND - T +64 9 303 4290 F +64 9 303 4302 - WWW.GOWLANGSFORDGALLERY.COM [email protected] GOW LANGSFORD GALLERY 2012 The Silence Rode a Donkey Into Town, Gallery Reis, Singapore Art Statements Gallery, Hong Kong Armory Show, New York (Anna Schwartz Gallery) Devon is my favourite luncheon meat, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland 2011 Dale Frank, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland 2010 Ice Age, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney 2009 Miscellaneous, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney The Big Black Bubble, Anna Schwartz, Melbourne 2008 Dale Frank, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland Some Boring Paintings, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney 2007 Sore Throat, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney 2006 Dale Frank, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland Dale Frank, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney 2005 Bendigo Art Prize Exhibition, Bendigo Schubert Gallery, Gold Coast Frieze Art Fair (Schwartz Gallery), London 2004 Recent Paintings, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney 2003 Dale Frank, Studio Foyer Exhibitioins, Sydney Opera House, Sydney New Paintings, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne Views From The Bruce Highway, Roselyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney 2002 Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Resisting Colour, Gow Langsford Gallery, Sydney, Australia 2001 Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia Multistylus Program, Auckland City Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand Low-down, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Desire, RMIT Gallery, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia 2000 "Dale Frank, Ecstasy 20 Years of Painting", Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia curated by Sue Cramer Dale Frank, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, Australia Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia "Miss Junior Gin Gin Showgirl", Dale Frank (and Adam Cullen), Hazelhurst 26 LORNE ST PO BOX 5461 WELLESLEY ST AUCKLAND 1141 NEW ZEALAND - T +64 9 303 4290 F +64 9 303 4302 - WWW.GOWLANGSFORDGALLERY.COM [email protected] GOW LANGSFORD GALLERY Regional Gallery, Sydney, Australia Galerie Albert Baronian, Brussels 1999 Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles 1998 "Gin Gin Paintings", Bundaberg Art Gallery, (touring), Toowoomba Regional Gallery, Tamworth City Gallery), Australia Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia "Unseen New York Paintings 1985-86", Alderton Gallery, Brisbane Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 1997 Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland (touring Govett-Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth; Wellington City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand "Movie Show", Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 1996 Tyson Stable, 2001 Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia Teststrip Gallery, Auckland Bellas Gallery, Brisbane, Australia Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia "Disco-Behaviouralism", Upper Roma Street, Brisbane (VOLT, Brisbane Festival) "Pool Hall", Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, (photography) Sydney, Australia "Perfumed Lotus" (sculpture performance), Room 117, Asia Pacific Hotel, Art Fair, Brisbane, Australia 1995 Bellas Gallery, Brisbane, Australia Sculpture Performance, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia Dale Frank/Scott Redford (collaboration), ISNT Gallery, Brisbane, AustraliaKaryn Lovegrove Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 1994 Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Melbourne, Australia Project Space, Level 2, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney, Australia Private Viewing, Hugh Jamieson Collection, Bilpin, NSW, Untitled, 2006 Australia Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA Wollongong City Gallery, Wollongong, NSW (Drawing Retrospective, 1980-1994) , Australia Unseen 1984 Exhibition, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Melbourne, Australia “Satellite of Love”, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, (in association with the National Gallery of Australia, 'Virtual Reality'), Canberra, Australia 26 LORNE ST PO BOX 5461 WELLESLEY ST AUCKLAND 1141 NEW ZEALAND - T +64 9 303 4290 F +64 9 303 4302 - WWW.GOWLANGSFORDGALLERY.COM [email protected] GOW LANGSFORD GALLERY 1993 Solander Gallery, Canberra, Australia Bellas Gallery, Brisbane, Australia Monash University Gallery, Monash University, Melbourne (Drawing Retrospective, 1980-1992) , Australia Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, P.I.C.A., Perth (Drawing Retrospective 1980-1992) , Australia Sherman Gallery Goodhope, Sydney, Australia UNFAIR, Cologne Galerie Albert Baronian, Brussels 1992 Newcastle Regional Gallery, Newcastle (collaboration with John Coburn) Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia Nolan Gallery, Canberra (collaboration with John Coburn), Australia Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Melbourne, Australia The Villa Verte, Kuala Lipis (Kuala Lumpur),Malaysia Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia 1991 Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (collaboration with John Cobum) Tamworth City Gallery, Tamworth, Australia Deutscher Brunswick Street, Melbourne, Australia 1990 Milburn+Arte, Brisbane, Australia Deutscher Brunswick Street, Melbourne, Australia Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia Sculptures and Constructions, Milburn, Brisbane, Australia 1989 Milburn+Arte, Brisbane, Australia Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia 1988 Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA Milburn+Arte, Brisbane, Australia Mori Gallery, Sydney, Australia Realities Gallery, Melbourne, Australia E.M.R. Gallery, Sydney, Australia 1987 Studio Marconi, Milan, Italy Musee de Arte Modern di Ville Liege, Liege; curated by Albert Baronian Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago Realities Gallery, Melbourne Mori Gallery, Sydney 1986 Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York Galerie Polynero, Antwerp Galerie Albert Baronian, Brussels Triagono Modern Arte, Nola (Naples) Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney 1985 Palais Des Beaux-Arts (Galerie Albert Baronian), Brussels Galerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam 26 LORNE ST PO BOX 5461 WELLESLEY ST AUCKLAND 1141 NEW ZEALAND - T +64 9 303 4290 F +64 9 303 4302 - WWW.GOWLANGSFORDGALLERY.COM [email protected] GOW LANGSFORD GALLERY Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney Canberra School of Art Gallery, Canberra Studio d'Art Cannaviello, Milan 1984 Studio d'Art Cannaviello, Milan Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney University Gallery, Melbourne Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York 1983 Museum Fodor, (Stedelijk Museum), Amsterdam Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney 1982 Galerie Tanit, Munich Perspective 12/82, International Kunstmesse, Basel Roslyn OxIey9 Gallery, Sydney Severina Teucher Galerie, Zurich 1981 Acme Art Gallery, London PS.1. Gallery (Project Studio One), New York Praxis Gallery, Perth Fernando Pellegrino Galerie, Bologna 1980 Project Art Gallery, Dublin Young Artists Club, (FMK), Budapest Galerie Sixto Notes, Milan 1979 Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2015 Spring Catalogue, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland 2014 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Dark Heart, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide Levels of Abstraction,