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The Lost Cave...

The Lost Cave like an exploding Sphincter on a distant shore - the echo - so what’s new?, 1995
ink and acrylic on linen
1980 x 1980 mm
signed and dated upper left upside down: “Frank 94”
Illustrated: catalogue cover: Dale Frank, City Gallery, Wellington; Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland; Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, 1997
Provenance: Private Collection, New Zealand
Exhibited: touring Dale Frank exhibition: Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth; Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland; City Gallery, Wellington, 1997

Dale Frank, The Lost Cave...,1995

The Lost Cave…  is a key example of the work of Australian artist Dale Frank. The work features a black ‘hole’ on a spacey bright yellow ground and in the best tradition of Dale Frank the painting is accompanied by a witty and memorable title. The Lost Cave is first primed with a background of pollen coloured pigment on which an explosion of black paint is projected onto the canvas. Not only do these works reveal a corporal, performative action executed by the artist but as Christopher Chapman, in a 1997 catalogue essay on Frank’s work, reveals: ‘the paintings are oozing, living beings, they speak of the liquidity of the body.’