F R A N K B A R R O N
Los Angeles artist
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Frank was born June 1957 in the southern United States and moved to California at the age of seven. Growing up in California’s San Fernando Valley, Frank started painting at age twelve. He is now living in Hollywood, California working in bronze, steel, and ceramics.
Education:
1970 Scholarship in sculpture, C.S.U. Northridge.
1975 Pierce College.
1984 U.C.L.A. photography.
1986 Friends of Photography Carmel, California.
2005 Architectural drawing, and CAD rendering.
2008 2010 Santa Monica College, Ceramics.
2011 El Camino College, Ceramics.
2013 Glendale College, Ceramics.
2016 El Camino College, Bronze.
2017 El Camino College, Bronze.
Shows:
2018
Accepted into 22nd San Angelo National Ceramic Competition
2016
FINE
Frank Barron and fellow LA artists Yumi Kiyose & Alex Alferov
2013
Ink & Clay 39
Kellogg Gallery, Cal Poly Pomona
2013
Urs Fischer sculpture project.
Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles
2012
Big Fish Little Pot, American Museum of Ceramic Art.
Sold submitted piece to Kamm Teapot Foundation.
2012
Kiln Opening
American Museum of Ceramic Art.
2012
Ink & Clay 38
Kellogg Gallery, Cal Poly Pomona
2011
El Camino College Student Show.
2011
Revive Japan Silent Auction
Craft and Folk Art Museum
2011
22nd Annual CCACA California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Art, Davis, California.
2010
Kiln Opening
American Museum of Ceramic Art.
2010
Water Project
Pete & Susan Barrett Art Gallery Santa Monica.
2009
Student show Santa Monica Collage
Pete & Susan Barrett Art Gallery Santa Monica.
Artist Statement
Not another artist statement! I’m sure if Van Gogh had to write one of these he would have ended his life much sooner.
My work has taken many paths and continues to branch off in ever more diverse directions. Discipline and imagination are two very different parents. My imaginings are endless. Yielding to discipline is required to bring some of the ideas into fruition.
I prefer not to influence a viewer with too much of my experience. When there is a visual or visceral connection to my work I am certain that is where the relationship should start. The context of its origins and my relationship must be secondary. Visual art is a universal voice. It is a primal and important conversation where words and the left side of the brain need to stand down.
