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Just discovered: “Casus Familia or the eroded family in the photographs of Frank Rodick,” part of the article “Currents in 21st century literature,” by Marcelo Bianchi Bustos and Carolina Repetto. To read this 1400 word analysis of the Frances ,

July 2023: Esteemed photographer, curator, and professor Don Snyder interviews Frank Rodick on three specific series: Frances , Joseph , and untitled selves . Click here for the interview.

Frank Rodick’s untitled selves featured in BETA developments in photography issue 40 2021.

Frank Rodick featured in FotoNostrum Magazine, June 2021.

May 2021: Frank Rodick named overall winner of the 16th Annual Pollux Awards .

Frank Rodick: Everything Will Be Forgotten Ashley Johnson,  Vie des Arts , no. 239, Summer 2015 Rodick has exposed himself personally in this totally uncompromising work that accepts the blame and perhaps even revels in the potential ce

A Conversation with Frank Rodick: On Pickles and Pixels Nancy Brokaw, Image World , 2015 A lie can be powerful and beautiful, and photography is such a fantastic liar. It’s part of what makes it such a great medium. Frank Rodick and a

Interview with Frank Rodick Emese Krunák-Hajagos, ArtToronto, 2015 I just make pictures. I make pictures to flesh out my personal obsessions and ruminations, to amuse myself, to have something to do that doesn’t bore me and doesn’t feel like

Frank Rodick in conversation with Katherine Ware The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, 2013 In this three-part video, curator Katherine Ware and Frank Rodick discuss his work, including the earliest from Liquid City , to his latest proje

This Great Misfortune Nancy Brokaw, 2013 ...what we cannot ignore in these pictures—what makes them especially harrowing, especially discomforting—is that the subjects are Rodick’s own parents. How many of us could paint such a desiccated pi

Of Taboos, Love, Death and Redemption: An interview with Frank Rodick Alex Bocchetto, 2013 About the rejection of redemption I can understand why people got pissed, many still think that art should be cathartic; they think it’s OK if the art

Uncharted Frontiers: An interview with photographer Frank Rodick M. M. Adjarian,  Arts + Culture , 2013 If somebody says something like, “That rang true for me in a visceral kind of way,” after looking at something I did, that means a l

Frank Rodick Darren Campion, 2012 Frank Rodick is an artist concerned above all with the body and how that tangible “image” of human presence might be conceived of in photographic terms—made visible, even as it comes undone. There is little

Masquerade Karl E. Johnson, Eyemazing Winter 2011 ...the inevitable search for truth, even the nakedness of truth, is not achieved by way of "traditional" nudity —a simple absence of clothing. [Rodick,] thinking along such lines

From the Interior: Frank Rodick Darren Campion,  The Incoherent Light , 2010 Rodick finds grotesque (but faithful ) mirrors for our own tragic profanity, our brokenness and the impossible hope for redemption, this horribly immediate an

Frank Rodick Clayton Maxwell,  Eyemazing Magazine , 2010 Rodick’s art suggests that there is something powerful in our capacity, as humans, to bear witness, to pay attention to another person’s suffering. We can lessen the sting of the

The Charnel House and the Peep Show Nancy Brokaw,  Image World , 2010 Like Duchamp’s use of the peep show, the format Rodick has chosen forces you into an intimate relationship with what is revealed because you discover it on your own.

Labyrinth of Desire Katherine Ware, 2009 The search for meaning, the drive to make sense of the fragments of our earthy abattoir, is as ineluctable a human trait as all the rest. From Kate Ware's essay on Frank Rodick's work from 1991 to

A Ruthless Voyeurism Nancy Brokaw,  Image World , 2009 In the Faithless Grottoes  pictures, I find myself, again and again, looking—peering—into the scene. But not in a casual way. I feel locked into this exchange, held in place

The Longest Night Marcia Mercadante, 2006 Eroticism is restored to its original portrayal in antiquity, equated with cosmic force and divinity. Rodick takes us by the hand through this dense, dark labyrinth of many paradoxes—pain and joy, vi

Three Constructions of the Image Don Snyder and Melodie Ng, Ryerson University, 2006 The images [from Faithless Grottoes ] are frenetic, even psychedelic. The photographs appear almost as stills of moving images, due to the repetition, sh

Arena Katherine Ware, 2006 Using blurred, truncated views of the human form, Rodick taps into the powerful ambiguities of pleasure and pain in his images, forcing us to examine our untidy interiors. Inside each of us, he suggests, is a heart

Sex, Death, and Videotape Nancy Brokaw,  The Photo Review , 2006 Difficult terrain, this — for viewer and artist alike. One’s first response is to flinch, to turn away. I take one look and ask Do I really want these images lodged in my

Life's Lacuna: The Vanishing Pleasure Dome Robert Black, 2005. Rodick's photographs are lacunas, gaping oral memories of what takes place inside and between bodies. Regardless of subject matter, Rodick's images are not concerned with despair

Liquid City Stephen Perloff,  The Photo Review , 2000 Rodick reminds us that the city is still a place of bubbling energy and provocative mystery. The beings who populate his Liquid City are neither objects of leering, elitist hu

An Indominatable Quest for Life As It Is Alina Tortosa,  The Buenos Aires Herald , 2003 Poet , curator, and critic Alina Tortosa writes about Frank Rodick's work for the Buenos Aires Herald.  Read article .

Arena Juan Travnik, 2005. This body of work may be seen as a reflection on human nature in which from the outset the idea of confrontation is central. This stage is one on which we find love, suffocation, violent sex, horror, ecstasy and dea

Just discovered: “Casus Familia or the eroded family in the photographs of Frank Rodick,” part of the article “Currents in 21st century literature,” by Marcelo Bianchi Bustos and Carolina Repetto. To read this 1400 word analysis of the Frances ,

July 2023: Esteemed photographer, curator, and professor Don Snyder interviews Frank Rodick on three specific series: Frances , Joseph , and untitled selves . Click here for the interview.

Frank Rodick’s untitled selves featured in BETA developments in photography issue 40 2021.

Frank Rodick featured in FotoNostrum Magazine, June 2021.

May 2021: Frank Rodick named overall winner of the 16th Annual Pollux Awards .

Frank Rodick: Everything Will Be Forgotten Ashley Johnson,  Vie des Arts , no. 239, Summer 2015 Rodick has exposed himself personally in this totally uncompromising work that accepts the blame and perhaps even revels in the potential ce

A Conversation with Frank Rodick: On Pickles and Pixels Nancy Brokaw, Image World , 2015 A lie can be powerful and beautiful, and photography is such a fantastic liar. It’s part of what makes it such a great medium. Frank Rodick and a

Interview with Frank Rodick Emese Krunák-Hajagos, ArtToronto, 2015 I just make pictures. I make pictures to flesh out my personal obsessions and ruminations, to amuse myself, to have something to do that doesn’t bore me and doesn’t feel like

Frank Rodick in conversation with Katherine Ware The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, 2013 In this three-part video, curator Katherine Ware and Frank Rodick discuss his work, including the earliest from Liquid City , to his latest proje

This Great Misfortune Nancy Brokaw, 2013 ...what we cannot ignore in these pictures—what makes them especially harrowing, especially discomforting—is that the subjects are Rodick’s own parents. How many of us could paint such a desiccated pi

Of Taboos, Love, Death and Redemption: An interview with Frank Rodick Alex Bocchetto, 2013 About the rejection of redemption I can understand why people got pissed, many still think that art should be cathartic; they think it’s OK if the art

Uncharted Frontiers: An interview with photographer Frank Rodick M. M. Adjarian,  Arts + Culture , 2013 If somebody says something like, “That rang true for me in a visceral kind of way,” after looking at something I did, that means a l

Frank Rodick Darren Campion, 2012 Frank Rodick is an artist concerned above all with the body and how that tangible “image” of human presence might be conceived of in photographic terms—made visible, even as it comes undone. There is little

Masquerade Karl E. Johnson, Eyemazing Winter 2011 ...the inevitable search for truth, even the nakedness of truth, is not achieved by way of "traditional" nudity —a simple absence of clothing. [Rodick,] thinking along such lines

From the Interior: Frank Rodick Darren Campion,  The Incoherent Light , 2010 Rodick finds grotesque (but faithful ) mirrors for our own tragic profanity, our brokenness and the impossible hope for redemption, this horribly immediate an

Frank Rodick Clayton Maxwell,  Eyemazing Magazine , 2010 Rodick’s art suggests that there is something powerful in our capacity, as humans, to bear witness, to pay attention to another person’s suffering. We can lessen the sting of the

The Charnel House and the Peep Show Nancy Brokaw,  Image World , 2010 Like Duchamp’s use of the peep show, the format Rodick has chosen forces you into an intimate relationship with what is revealed because you discover it on your own.

Labyrinth of Desire Katherine Ware, 2009 The search for meaning, the drive to make sense of the fragments of our earthy abattoir, is as ineluctable a human trait as all the rest. From Kate Ware's essay on Frank Rodick's work from 1991 to

A Ruthless Voyeurism Nancy Brokaw,  Image World , 2009 In the Faithless Grottoes  pictures, I find myself, again and again, looking—peering—into the scene. But not in a casual way. I feel locked into this exchange, held in place

The Longest Night Marcia Mercadante, 2006 Eroticism is restored to its original portrayal in antiquity, equated with cosmic force and divinity. Rodick takes us by the hand through this dense, dark labyrinth of many paradoxes—pain and joy, vi

Three Constructions of the Image Don Snyder and Melodie Ng, Ryerson University, 2006 The images [from Faithless Grottoes ] are frenetic, even psychedelic. The photographs appear almost as stills of moving images, due to the repetition, sh

Arena Katherine Ware, 2006 Using blurred, truncated views of the human form, Rodick taps into the powerful ambiguities of pleasure and pain in his images, forcing us to examine our untidy interiors. Inside each of us, he suggests, is a heart

Sex, Death, and Videotape Nancy Brokaw,  The Photo Review , 2006 Difficult terrain, this — for viewer and artist alike. One’s first response is to flinch, to turn away. I take one look and ask Do I really want these images lodged in my

Life's Lacuna: The Vanishing Pleasure Dome Robert Black, 2005. Rodick's photographs are lacunas, gaping oral memories of what takes place inside and between bodies. Regardless of subject matter, Rodick's images are not concerned with despair

Liquid City Stephen Perloff,  The Photo Review , 2000 Rodick reminds us that the city is still a place of bubbling energy and provocative mystery. The beings who populate his Liquid City are neither objects of leering, elitist hu

An Indominatable Quest for Life As It Is Alina Tortosa,  The Buenos Aires Herald , 2003 Poet , curator, and critic Alina Tortosa writes about Frank Rodick's work for the Buenos Aires Herald.  Read article .

Arena Juan Travnik, 2005. This body of work may be seen as a reflection on human nature in which from the outset the idea of confrontation is central. This stage is one on which we find love, suffocation, violent sex, horror, ecstasy and dea

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