DAVID FRANCK

Statement For many years I have been exploring the intersection of painting and photography. My goal is to combine the techniques of painting via collage, abstracting color and texture to complement and contrast what already exists in nature. I want the illusionary element of photography to have a larger role. For too long photography has suffered from the just one moment instance of reality; one single vanishing point. Seductive colors are a pathway into the images. I'm striving toward a photograph whose construction method and appearance reveal multiple moments and perspectives simultaneously. Each image reflects is a transition from the familiar to the unknown, from public too private. Each image forms a new view of a given site. By manipulating colors and perspectives I can summon an image which is at once a view of a photographic reality, yet one that does not exist. The illusion of permanence challenges the transitory nature of light, space and reality. A photograph of a dream. A dream that began as a photographic reality. By creating an abstracted version of reality, increasing natural or unnatural colors, I can free the medium from the inherent confines of a single vanishing point. Resume Solo Exhibitions 2003 Clover, Los Angeles, CA 2002 Fototeka, Los Angeles, CA 2000 Fototeka, Los Angeles, CA 1999 Southern Light Gallery, Amarillo, TX David Jacobs Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA 1998 David Jacobs Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA 1992 Studio Milano, Laguna Beach, CA Group Exhibitions 2007 Permanent Collection, Fields Sculpture Park, Omi, NY 2006 Perspectives, Creative Galleries, Culver City, CA 2006 Photography in The Landscape, Fields Sculpture Park, Omi, NY 2005 Gallery Artist, Weber Fine Art, Chatham, NY 2003 Out of The Box, Brea, CA 1999 Summer Show, Miller Dirazo, Los Angeles, CA Revealing and Concealing, Portraits and Cultural Identity Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA The Last Photograph if The Millennium, The Image Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1998 As Photography Progresses, White Noise, Los Angeles, CA Summer Show, Post Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Journey to Freedom, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA 1997 David Jacobs Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA 1996 Re: Collectivity, Side Street Projects, Santa Monica, CA Five Americans, In Collaboration Gallery, Akron, OH Two-Person Show, In Collaboration Gallery, Akron, OH 1995 Two-Person Show, In Collaboration Gallery, Akron, OH In Collaboration Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 1994 In Collaboration Gallery, Akron, OH In Collaboration Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 1993 Second Story Gallery, Seattle, WA Emmerson Gallery, Two-Person Show, Studio City, CA Dis-Locations, University of Laredo, TX 1992 Death and Los Dias de Los Muertos, Bridge Center for Contemporary Art, El Paso, TX Education 1992 MFA, Photograph: CAL ARTS, Valencia, CA 1989-90 (Attended) University of Illinois, at Chicago, Chicago, IL 1983 BFA, Photography/Painting, School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL 1979-83 (Attended) University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM