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Image: Frances (you must console me)
From the series, Frances
© Frank Rodick, 2012
Frank Rodick’s honest and unflinching approach to difficult themes sets his images apart from much contemporary work. As photographic practice has become increasingly self-reflexive and imitative—with dramatized, narrative tableau imagery occupying much of the center stage in the photographic art world—the originality and strength of Rodick’s approach is that it bypasses this way of working, and instead grounds itself in the complex realms of visual layering, color and texture relationships, dramatic tension and philosophical metaphor…[Rodick has] strikingly blended personal experience with larger issues of existence, family, memory and mortality. In many respects, Rodick’s photographs address the same human problems that so preoccupied artist such as Goya and Francis Bacon.
—Don Snyder, curator and Professor Emeritus, Toronto Metropolitan University
Frank Rodick is a Toronto-based photographic artist whose work explores memory, mortality, and acute subjectivity, including the intimate disturbances of family. Working across analogue photography, alternative darkroom techniques, video, and digital imaging, he constructs emotionally charged images of the human face and figure.
Rodick’s work is held in collections across the world, including the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Canada, the Kinsey Institute, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the New Mexico Museum of Art, the Brandts Museum in Denmark, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Forthcoming book
Frank Rodick is developing Everything Will Be Forgotten, a major book project that is both a retrospective and a new encounter with his work as a whole. Expected to launch early 2028, it will feature over 150 of Rodick’s photographs, essays by noted writers, an interview, and text by the artist, including his most personal essay to date. Book design is by the eminent art book designer David Skolkin.
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