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Cynthia Flaxman Frank
excerpt313, Modern Typeface and Text Abstraction in Oil and Cold Wax on Canvas
2021

About the Item

Rhode Island native Cynthia Flaxman Frank is a lifelong creator, whose first works of art were singing and songwriting. Trained as a graphic designer, Frank spent 30 years in that industry before transitioning to her painting studio. Frank’s design background is evident in her artwork: graphic design typography and image-making merge with painterly qualities of color, stroke and texture in her paintings and collage work. The attention to detail reflects Frank’s training, but also her love of language and illustrated text found in ancient art forms. In Frank's excerpt313, typography is a celebrated as the written word as fine art. Art and language have gone hand-in-hand since the earliest cuniform symbols were drawn in Mesopotamia 3200 BC. Scholars communicated in clay, stone, and wood for millennia, but by the invention of the moveable printing press in the 15th century AD, everything about language and writing changed: the mass production of books (and the stylization of moveable type) was finally possible. Many modern typefaces and principles of design were standardized by the Bauhaus school in the 1920s, which heavily influenced art and popular culture in the West. In the 1960s, pop artists like Roy Lichtenstein and Ed Ruscha incorporated text at the centers of their large-scale works to raise questions about where meaning is derived in language, while also mocking the purity of high art. Frank elevates text and celebrates typography in thei contemporary interpretation. Frank earned her BA and MFA from Yale University. She has taught and served as a visiting critic at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, The Yale School of Art, and Central Piedmont Community College. She is a full time lecturer at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte in the Department of Art and Art History. Frank is also a partner in PAC3, an award-winning public art collaboration and has served as a chief designer for The Wall Poems of Charlotte, an ongoing public mural project that celebrates North Carolina’s literary heritage. excerpt313, Modern Typeface and Text Abstraction in Oil and Cold Wax on Canvas

Creator:
Cynthia Flaxman Frank (American)
Creation Year:
2021
Dimensions:
Height: 36 in (91.44 cm)Width: 36 in (91.44 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)
Medium:
Canvas,Wax,Oil
Movement & Style:
Abstract
Period:
21st Century
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Charlotte, NC
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU147927715132

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