Francks Deceus

" Intersect #A7 " - blue and green figurative painting on canvas with collage

2016

Francks Deceus’ “Mumbo Jumbo BK#1” is a 20 x 16 inch acrylic paint, color pencil, and collage painting on canvas. The main colors are pink, blue and red. The image is very playful, showing a man dressed as a superhero standing next to an entangled fire hose. The title “Mumbo Jumbo, is inspired by Ishmael Reed’s book under the same titled, where he attempted to capsulate the complexities of the African American experience. For Deceus is about capturing the complexity of his experience as an immigrant from Haiti back in the 1970s. A series of very colorful and playful works, focusing on the adventures of one figure named “Cappy”. The name is derived from Deceus family home town, Cap Haitien. Cappy is Deceus alter-ego; The images are intentionally drawn in the vein of comic strips with Cappy as the superhero. He goes out in the world and has to solve the kind of frightening experiences Deceus knew about as a Haitian immigrant, which in the paintings are ironically represented by the hose/snake snarling Cappy. Stylistically Deceus work incorporates many of the aesthetic forms of artists like Norman Lewis and Howardena...

Spring Break Morning #1 is a 60 x 48-inches acrylic and collage work on canvas. The primary colors are red, yellow, and blue. The image is playful, with a figure in a red suit floating inside a yellow buy. The work is part of the very recent Spring Break series. The artist writes, "Spring break, I was thinking about some of the highlights of my life. Spring break brings me back to my college Years, a time that offered endless possibilities. It was the first time I saw myself as a participant in the American dream and not just an observer". Francks F. Deceus was born in Cap-Haitien, Haiti, moving to NY when he was nine years old, where he has been living and creating ever since. Throughout his career, Francks has developed a unique modernist style where figures distilled to their pure features are layered in an abstract world evocative of our modern society. His work relates to artists like Norman Lewis...

Spring Break Morning Study #1 is a 20 x 16-inch acrylic and collage work on canvas. The primary colors are red, yellow, and blue. The image is playful, with a figure in a red suit fl...

Spring Break Afternoon #2 is a 60 x 48-inch acrylic and collage work on canvas. The primary colors are yellow and blue. The image is playful, with human figures in colorful suits flo...

Spring Break Afternoon #3 is a 34 x 46-inch acrylic and collage work on canvas. The primary colors are yellow and blue. The image is playful, with hundreds of yellow buys floating on...

Spring Break Meet-up #1 is a 30 x 24-inches acrylic and collage work on canvas. The primary colors are yellow and blue. The image is playful, with many figures in colorful suits floa...

The hero at this painting is a human. His eyes are a lenses that artist using. At all time they are together, a man and a woman. Duality of differences, two views, different accents,...

A painting will be taken off the stretcher and rolled up in a roll. At all time they are together, a man and a woman. Duality of differences, two views, different accents, but in o...

The Girl in Red Beret with apples - naive art, folk art, primitivism, made in red, green, blue colors. Elena Narkevich deliberately chooses naive art, like t...

The hero at this painting is a human. His eyes are a lenses that artist using. At all time they are together, a man and a woman. Duality of differences, two views, different accents,...

Aquarium (Fishs) - naive art, primitivism, folk art made in red, green, blue, yellow colors. Elena Narkevich deliberately chooses naive art, like the famous artists Henri Rousseau an...

All life is one continuous night. And just as hints of dawn appear, the night becomes even darker. So we walk through that night together. Where to? Why?... For texture on the primed...