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Frances (you must console me)
2012, from the series Frances
© Frank Rodick, 2012
Frank Rodick’s honest and unflinching approach to difficult themes sets his images apart from much contemporary work. As photographic practice has become increasingly self-reflexive and imitative—with dramatized, narrative tableau imagery occupying much of the center stage in the photographic art world—the originality and strength of Rodick’s approach is that it bypasses this way of working, and instead grounds itself in the complex realms of visual layering, color and texture relationships, dramatic tension and philosophical metaphor…[Rodick has] strikingly blended personal experience with larger issues of existence, family, memory and mortality. In many respects, Rodick’s photographs address the same human problems that so preoccupied artists such as Goya and Francis Bacon.
—Don Snyder, curator and Professor Emeritus, Toronto Metropolitan University
Frank Rodick is a Toronto-based photographic artist whose work explores memory, mortality, and acute subjectivity, and the intimate disturbances of family life. Working across analogue photography, alternative darkroom techniques, video, and digital imaging, he constructs emotionally charged images of the human face and figure.
Rodick’s work is held in collections internationally, including the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Canada, the Kinsey Institute, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the New Mexico Museum of Art, the Brandts Museum in Denmark, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Forthcoming book
Frank Rodick is developing Everything Will Be Forgotten, a book that brings together a retrospective of his photographs and a new encounter with his work as a whole. Expected to launch in early 2028, it will feature more than 150 photographs, essays by contributing writers, an interview, and writings by the artist, including his most personal essay to date. The book is designed by David Skolkin.
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