Written Word

2018
Oil on Canvas
20 x 24″
http://danafrankfort.com
Inman Gallery

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Dana Frankfort, born 1971, lives and works in Houston, Texas

“These paintings exist in a moral universe that requires a minimum of faith on the part of the viewer. Here, one does not have to be a believer to stand with the artist as an equal before the work. They are not mysterious. What might at first be mistaken for earnest expressionism with all of the transcendental baggage that that way of painting carries is actually something far simpler: economy. The quickest way to write a message as large as it needs to be. In looking at these paintings I am reminded of a proposition from ‘Rules For Selecting Art College Professors” by Otto Muehl: Whoever paints all of a 10m x 10m canvas the fastest, using their tongue as a brush, receives 15 points.'”

– Justin Lieberman, Sorry We’re Closed, 2008