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FRANK EIFERT STUDIO
© 1969 - 2013 Frank Eifert - All Rights Reserved ICARUS If ever all the dieties, despots and demagogues are gone, we will still be tyrannized by their legacy of dogma, superstition and myth. Whatever primitive fears elicited these fantasies, we must accept their continued prevalence as evidence of our amorphous, latent megalomania. Certainly ideas can be toxic or curative and infect us with their own need, desire, compulsion. However, there must be some innate susceptibility that drives man to pursue an idea, any idea, beyond all reasonable bounds; to fly too close to the sun; to abandon the self in an act of signification; to realize whatever can be realized at whatever cost. Somehow our wildest fantasies always end up stuck in our collective craw.
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| STING 14x14 inches | PROSPECT 22x22 inches | GAZE 26x26 inches | BIRDS 30x30 inches | PANGS 22x22 inches | CHORD 22x22 inches |
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| ECHO 30x30 inches | ENGRAILED 14x26 inches | OMAHA 18x18 inches | AXIAL STRIPES 40x48 inches | ICARUS 18x18 inches | FINCHES 18x18 inches |
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| ANGULARITY 20x20 inches | TELIKOS 26x26 inches | COURANT 14x14 inches | ZANY 14x14 inches | CHALICE 18x18 inches | SPINOFF 10x18 inches |
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| PATHS 18x18 inches | FUSION 18x18 inches | ANTHEM 18x18 inches | RADIX 30x30 inches | BABELDOM 14x14 inches | THEATRICK 18x18 inches |
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| CORONA 22x22 inches | AUREOLE 22x22 inches | EXTRINSIC 22x22 inches | MAGPIE 14x14 inches | SUBLIMINAL 10x18 inches | EFFULGENCE 14x14 inches |
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| VORO 18x18 inches | COLOPHON 18x18 inches | MANTRA 16x16 inches | FALSTAFF 18x18 inches | MUTANT 18x18 inches | REIFIED 18x18 inches |
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| PREDELLA 14x14 inches | STROPHIC 18x18 inches | RESONANCES 18x18 inches | METACRASIS 30x30 inches | TELOS 26x26 inches | MATERIA 26x26 inches |
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| VESPER 14x26 inches | ANGST 10x10 inches | ORPHIC 30x30 inches | ODYSSEY 26x26 inches | ASTRAL 16x16 inches | PROMISES 14x26 inches |
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| WHISPERER 14x14 inches | MOMUS 18x18 inches | TRIAD 44x48 inches |
FRANK EIFERT 1920-2013
Born in New York City in 1920, Frank won a city-wide competition to the
Art Students League where he studied with Yasuo Kuniyosi and his work was shown
at the Brooklyn Museum. After World War II he went back to the League for 4 more
years and also studied at Cooper Union. In New York he exhibited at the Babcock
Gallery, the Roosevelt Field Art Center, the Pietrantonio Gallery, the Gripi Gallery,
the Society of Illustrators and the Seligmann Gallery. He also exhibited at the
Austin Hayes Gallery in England, the Columbus City Museum,
the Pinacothek Gallery in Venice, Florida and the Janus Gallery in Washington, D.C.
His work is in collections at the Columbus City Museum, the U.S. Air Force Collection,
IBM and NASA. FRANK'S ABSTRACT OIL PAINTINGS In 1975, Frank began a new series of abstract oil paintings which he continued
for the rest of his life. Particular titles, thematic materials and stylistic variations
are only clues to the intentional preoccupations of the artist. While not inhibiting the
viewer, they may occasionally increase his enjoyment. (-: ]-:
Frank developed a "multi-oriented" method
of painting which offers the viewer several options for interpretation and enjoyment.
Each picture can be oriented from each side or corner (square pictures provide 8
orientations and rectangular pictures provide 4 orientations). For the artist the multiple
orientations present many new challenges and enhance the traditional aesthetics. As
ambivalence and ambiguity are the hallmarks of our time, these multiple options are an
appropriate aesthetic response.
To facilitate the understanding of these paintings, Frank has written "Half-Reflections"
to metaphorically suggest some of the intentions, surprises and significances encountered in
the creative process. They make a more objective, contemporaneous and reasonably cogent
analysis possible. However, they are still only partial, fallible and often intentionally
enigmatic. There is no last word, ever.