Artist's Bio
Originally from Mountainhome, Pennsylvania, Frank received his BFA from Syracuse University in 1998 and has executed several public art projects. He has been a resident artist in several locations, including the Carbondale Clay Center, the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, and Millersville University. His work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally. He received his MFA from Ohio University in 2006, and arrived in June as a Resident Artist at the Red Lodge Clay Center.

Artist's Statement
My current body of work is an investigation of the form that thought takes through an investigation of form itself, examining how we compartmentalize what we know and how we think. This investigation stems from an interest in how we have come to understand, and utilize structures of both the natural and man made world. I have developed a system of forms that I combine in order to examine the relationships and patterns, which occur through their formal interaction Forms are cast from three sets of colored ceramic slips. Saturation of color decreases as the scale of the form increases, much in the same way our understanding dilutes as we consider larger ideas. I exploit patterns in nature to influence surface, such as the tendency for some materials, like basalt, to crack in hexagonal structures. Patterns and forms generated from the golden mean and arithmetic progressions influence the way that I assemble forms, generating patterns and structures that can be modeled and combined to produce and conform to a multitude of models.

Combining forms from this system in order to create objects that resemble those we as humans have created allow for comment on how we utilize metaphysical structures to understand and manipulate the physical. There is an inextricable connection between the abstract, and tangible, as illustrated by these objects and their relationship to the more abstract pieces, which speak of the underlying structures that support the tangible world. It is difficult is not impossible to separate how we think of our world from how we interact with it. I intend to create a dialogue between the physical and metaphysical structures that we generate, and utilize in order to shape our world, supporting our culture and society.