Homer SeriesFrank Lind - New York
FRANK LIND
Frank Lind was born in 1949 in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, and grew up in the adjoining town of Cumberland. The eldest of eight children, he watched the fields and farms of his home town change to suburbs and city. He was able to make a studio in the basement of his childhood home, and early inspirations ranged from Michelangelo to comic books and science fiction illustration.
Lind attended Georgetown University in Washington DC, receiving a BA in Fine Arts in 1970. He moved to New York City in 1971 and earned an MFA from Pratt Institute, where he was Dean of the School of Art and Design from 2000 through 2009. He now is able to devote himself entirely to painting. The great museums and galleries of New York City continue to be a source of inspiration, as do the beaches and waves of the nearby Atlantic ocean.
His work has been shown extensively in New York City and elsewhere, and is in numerous collections worldwide.
Artist’s statement re. Homer works:
One of the ways painters used to learn was by making precise studies of masterworks by earlier artists. This has been my practice, and in the course of copying works by such artists as Johannes Vermeer, John Singer Sargent and Winslow Homer, the additive process of painting began to suggest changes in the originals. I couldn’t help but notice that Homer’s admiration for the sturdy fisher-women of his time did not extend to studies of nude forms. I decided to make my own corrections to this oversight by insinuating naked contemporary models into Homer’s robust compositions. The results can be jarring and even humorous, but affection for and appreciation of Homer’s beautiful work is the driving principle.
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