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| Sara Frantz | |
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In 1981 I was born in the average sized midwestern suburb of Wheaton, Illinois. Born to Stephanie and Jeff Frantz, she was raised in a pale yellow house where her mother still resides today. I attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison were she graduated in 2003 with a Bachelors of Science in Art. Taking a year off after graduation, I worked as an assistant commodities broker in the soybean oil pit at the Chicago Board of Trade. After a short stint in the male dominated family business, I began the Master of Fine Arts in Painting program at the University of Texas at Austin (graduating in May 2007). I continue to live, work, and enjoy Austin. |
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I am attempting to reinterpret old themes of landscape in an applicable and contemporary visual language. In a visual language that I believe is crammed full of diversity and disparate images, I want to raise questions of what these landscapes are and why they exist. I want to set up a conflict between the anxiety of disparate images, spaces, and styles with the pleasure of color, surface, and an embrace of the decorative. I am inspired by nature imitated in art. Recently, my interests are heavily aligned with that of the French Rococo. With cosmetic colors that border on decorative fluff, artists like Boucher and Fragonard abstract natural forms into the coquettishly artificial. Along with the interplay of visual pleasures and that of symbolic, formal, and cultural meanings, Rococo art was driven by a country and time that wanted everything colored pink. I believe that this sentiment is paralleled today by a culture in which the artificial feminine is embraced and appearances overemphasized. Although my palette is not dominated by delicate harmonies of vermillion, coral, cool aquas, frothy whites, and sage greens, my work embraces the beautiful. The unnatural colors are precisely what attract me to the Rococo style. Fashioning the decorative rococo sensibility with the graphically flat, my painting syntax is fractured and incorporates various styles. By interweaving disparate objects, subjects, and landscapes into a new composition, I hope to create a painting where traditional notions of scale and spatial unity are challenged. Similarly, I interweave color and imagery that is lurid, saturated, and fluffy into an anti-rational pictorial space. I want visual conflicts, absurdities, and contradictions, to coexist with the decorative, the lush, and the ominous. I am after the space, color, and style to be just consistent enough for the image to hold together, but sufficiently incongruent enough for the idiosyncrasies to be apparent. For despite the spatial absurdities, there is a certain amount of believable cohesion in each faux landscape. By creating paradoxes with color, image, style and space, I hope for the viewer to experience an inability to place the vignette in which this landscape could occur. |
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Untitled (Encaustic 5)
2008 |
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| sample of my encaustic works |
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A walk with William H Macy
2007 |
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| A sample of one of my oil paintings. |
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Micro World
2008 |
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| Detail of my many terrariums. |
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Untitled
2007 |
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| 2007 MFA University of Texas-Austin 2003 BS University of Wisconsin at Madison |
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