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Frank Rodick

Frank Rodick’s photo-based work engages the worlds of acute subjectivity and emotion. Coming from the intimacies of his life, the issues are elemental and primal: fear, mortality, and pain, as seen through the lens of memory and the subconscious, images manifested in expressionistic representations of the human face and figure. Spanning 30 years, he has plied the photographic medium in his own singular way, integrating analogue and digital photography with film and video, and drawing inspiration from multiple art forms, particularly painting, literature, and cinema. Concurrent to his art practice—and critical to its development—Rodick trained and worked as a psychotherapist for over 20 years, which expanded and deepened his sensibility for the essential issues and obsessions of his own life, as well as the most private experiences of others. Mirroring the history of his own family, among the thousands of clients he encountered were those traumatized by experiences of abuse, illness, bigotry, and war. Rodick has described his work as "jagged memoir—testimony verging on hallucination, the kind Céline spoke of: constructions, some shining. other fearsome, but in the end more real than the everyday life that dampens rather than exclaims." Widely exhibited across four continents in over 35 solo and 80 group exhibitions, Rodick’s work sits in permanent collections of more than twenty public institutions globally, including the Brooklyn Museum, the Brandts Museum of Denmark, The Kinsey Art Collection, the National Museum of Fine Arts of Buenos Aires, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the National Gallery of Canada, the New Mexico Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Yale University.
Creator Id: 518
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Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Country of Birth: Canada
Province of Birth: Quebec
Year of Birth: 1959
City: Toronto
Country: Canada
Type of Creator: Artist
Gender: Male
Mediums: photography
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Work by Frank Rodick

Liquid City: Untitled no.9

Work ID: 26051

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Liquid City: Untitled no.1

Work ID: 26049

Description: "Liquid City', created between 1991 and 1999, is my vision of the modern city not simply as a place, but rather as a condition. The images are taken from cities all over the globe, but the particularities of each place are not at issue. More important is an experience that includes parades of anonymous faces, multiple chords of movement, the coexistence of order, dicord and enigma. At a time when so many photographs portray urban environments in a moralizing light, "Liquid City" pays homage to the city as an ongoing carnival of mystery and uncertainty.

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Liquid City: Untitled no.12

Work ID: 26053

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Liquid City: Untitled no.10

Work ID: 26052

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Liquid City: Untitled no.4

Work ID: 26050

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Liquid City: Untitled no.19

Work ID: 26055

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Liquid City: Untitled no.17

Work ID: 26054

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Liquid City: Untitled no.34

Work ID: 26059

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Liquid City: Untitled no.25

Work ID: 26056

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Liquid City: Untitled no.28

Work ID: 26057

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Liquid City: Untitled no.31

Work ID: 26058

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Liquid City: Untitled no.39

Work ID: 26061

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Liquid City: Untitled no.40

Work ID: 26062

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Liquid City: Untitled no.35

Work ID: 26060

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Liquid City: Untitled no.43

Work ID: 26063

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Liquid City: Untitled no.46

Work ID: 26064

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Liquid City: Untitled no.53

Work ID: 26066

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Liquid City: Untitled no.52

Work ID: 26065

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Liquid City: Untitled no.55

Work ID: 26067

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sub rosa no.6

Work ID: 26094

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sub rosa no.1

Work ID: 26089

Description: In "sub rosa" (1995-1997), I approached a traditional subject-the female nude-and explored it in a way that both illuminated and preserved two of its most powerful qualities, namely, its mystery and elusiveness. Rather than dissect or irradiate the subject, my goal was to bring those qualities closer to the veiwer while preserving their dreamlike and mystical dimensions.

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sub rosa no.3

Work ID: 26091

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sub rosa no.4

Work ID: 26092

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sub rosa no.2

Work ID: 26090

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sub rosa no.5

Work ID: 26093

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sub rosa no.9

Work ID: 26097

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sub rosa no.12

Work ID: 26100

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sub rosa no.11

Work ID: 26099

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sub rosa no.7

Work ID: 26095

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sub rosa no.10

Work ID: 26098

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sub rosa no.13

Work ID: 26101

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sub rosa no.8

Work ID: 26096

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Liquid City: Untitled no.88

Work ID: 26077

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Liquid City: Untitled no.80

Work ID: 26074

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Liquid City: Untitled no.69

Work ID: 26070

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Liquid City: Untitled no.68

Work ID: 26069

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Liquid City: Untitled no.93

Work ID: 26079

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Liquid City: Untitled no.66

Work ID: 26068

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Liquid City: Untitled no.72

Work ID: 26072

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Liquid City: Untitled no.82

Work ID: 26075

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Liquid City: Untitled no.75

Work ID: 26073

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Liquid City: Untitled no.86

Work ID: 26076

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Liquid City: Untitled no.90

Work ID: 26078

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Liquid City: Untitled no.71

Work ID: 26071

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Liquid City: Untitled no.102

Work ID: 26081

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Liquid City: Untitled no.112

Work ID: 26084

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Liquid City: Untitled no.122

Work ID: 26087

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Liquid City: Untitled no.115

Work ID: 26085

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Liquid City: Untitled no.107

Work ID: 26083

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Liquid City: Untitled no.123

Work ID: 26088

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Liquid City: Untitled no.100

Work ID: 26080

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Liquid City: Untitled no.117

Work ID: 26086

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Liquid City: Untitled no.106

Work ID: 26082

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Arena: Untitled

Work ID: 26105

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Arena: Reveries (dusk)

Work ID: 26103

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Arena: Revisitation no.3

Work ID: 26114

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Arena:Porneia

Work ID: 26107

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Arena: 3 a.m.(engram)

Work ID: 26110

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Arena: Revisitation no.1

Work ID: 26112

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Arena: Revisitation no.2

Work ID: 26113

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Arena: Untitled (eye, nose, lips)

Work ID: 26106

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Arena: Untitled vertical triptych no.1

Work ID: 26108

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Arena: Untitled vertical triptych no.2

Work ID: 26109

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Arena: Untitled (hand on breast)

Work ID: 26104

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Arena: Untitled diptych

Work ID: 26111

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Arena: In pain there burns a secret joy.

Work ID: 26102

Description: John Berger once refered to "the movable arena between sexual urgency and violence, between compliance and victimization, pleasure and pain". This reference is the source of the title of this work, my most recent and ongoing project.

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