Miami Visual Artist Studios
Brooke Frank
Artist Studio:
290 NW 73rd Street
Miami FL 33150
Accessibility: ADA Compliant
Free street parking
BIOGRAPHY
Brooke Frank was born in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina and lives and works in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Frank received an MFA in Studio Art from the University of Texas at Austin (2019) and a BFA in Studio Art from Florida Atlantic University (2015). She was part of a two-person exhibition at FAR Gallery in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, called “Making Sense” and selected solo exhibitions include “Channels” at IS Projects in Fort Lauderdale, Florida (2016) and “Wrapped: New Work” at the Jaffe Center for Book Arts at FAU in Boca Raton, Florida (2016), selected group exhibitions include “ZOONOTIC HEX” at Field Projects in New York, NY, “Inner Out” a virtual exhibition at Moonmist in Houston, Texas (2020), and “Real and Imagined Spaces: Brooke Burnside, Brooke Frank, and André Fuqua” through the Visual Arts Center at the University of Texas at Austin in Austin, Texas (2021). Frank received residencies at IS Projects in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Art Farm in Marquette, Nebraska, and the Jaffe Center for Book Arts in Boca Raton, Florida.
She is an emerging artist living and working in South Florida. She graduated Magna Cum Laude with her BFA in painting from Florida Atlantic University, and spent most of her undergraduate degree as a student assistant at the Jaffe Center for Book Arts. This spring, in addition to her residency, she is working professionally in technical theatre, specializing in scenic artistry and prop making.
The work she’ll be completing at the Jaffe Center revolves around the manipulation of pages from National Geographic magazines, notorious for their simplification of images and ideas to their most palatable details. The objective is to revive, retain, and record only that which is vital to the convection of genuine content.
Her work mimics the processes of natural forces like erosion, decay, and sublimation as they occur in seemingly controlled environments, in order to substantiate abstract and poetic thinking. Ultimately, every work seeks to interpret its catalysts––however banal, morbid, or cynical––as things to live for and through.
EDUCATION:
2019 University of Texas at Austin (UT), Master of Fine Arts, Painting
2015 Florida Atlantic University (FAU), Bachelor of Fine Arts, Studio Art, Painting
RESIDENCIES & AWARDS:
2016 Artist in Residence, IS Projects, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
2016 Artist in Residence, Art Farm, Marquette, NE
2016 Spring Artist in Residence, Helen M. Salzberg AIR Program, Jaffe Center for Book Arts, FAU, Boca Raton, FL
2016 Spring/Summer Fellowship, Girls’ Club Collection, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
2015 Rothenberger Fellowship, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
2014 Studio Assistantship at the Arrowmont School of Arts and Craft, Gatlinburg, TN
2013 Delray Art League Prize for Painting, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
2012 Rothenberger Endowed Scholarship for the Humanities (Drawing), Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
SOLO & TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2021 Making Sense, FAR Gallery, Ft. Lauderdale, FL (Two-Person)
2016 Channels, IS Projects, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
2016 Wrapped: New Work, Jaffe Center for Book Arts, FAU, Boca Raton, FL
2016 Open AIR Studio, Jaffe Center for Book Arts, FAU, Boca Raton, FL
EXHIBITIONS
2023 BluPrnt, Bridge Red Studios, Curated by Robert Chambers, Miami, FL
2023 Art Hollywood, Organized by Harumi Abe and Jesus Petroccini, Historical Society at the Hammerstein House, Hollywood, FL
2022 Faculty Exhibition, Gallery 217, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL
2022 Exposed, Art and Culture Center/Hollywood, Hollywood, FL
2022 BookBound: The Art of Books and Printmaking, Curated by Meaghan Kent, Art and Culture Center/Hollywood, Hollywood, FL
2022 ZOONOTIC HEX, Curated by Jacob Rhodes and Kristen Racaniello, Field Projects, New York, NY
2021 Real and Imagined Spaces: Brooke Burnside, Brooke Frank, and André Fuqua, Curated by Donato Loia, Visual Arts Center, Austin, TX
2021 Expanding Printmaking: South Florida Artist-Run Presses, Curated by Carol Prusa and Joseph Velasquez, Ritter Art Gallery, FAU, Boca Raton, FL
2020 Inner Out, Curated by Ariel René Jackson, Moonmist, Houston, TX (digital)
2020 In Union, Remotely, The Shaker Museum Mount Lebanon, Mount Lebanon, NY (digital)
2020 Willing the Season, Curated by Jessica Cannon, FAR x WIDE, Brooklyn, NY (digital)
2019 Hero Ready, Visual Arts Center, UT, Austin, TX
2018 Another Green World, Curated by Gilles Heno Coe, Visual Arts Center, UT, Austin, TX
2018 subjective perspective, The Dude Ranch, Austin, TX
2017 Eleven Strangers and a White Wall, Fieldworks Gallery, Visual Arts Center, UT, Austin, TX
2016 (With The Cabbage Palm) Ft. Lauderdale Small Press Fair, ArtsUp!, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
2016 (With The Cabbage Palm) Opening night projection) Florida Dreaming, curated by Erica Ando, FAU, Boca Raton, FL
2016 Flip Out: Artists’ Sketchbooks, Girls’ Club, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
2016 Dialogues: Revisited, Jaffe Center for Book Arts, FAU, Boca Raton, FL
2016 Maker Meet: Fine Art Edition, Social House, Lake Worth, FL
2015 Art Fallout, Girls’ Club, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
2015 Human for Real, Social House, Lake Worth, FL
2015 Chromis: Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibition, Ritter Art Gallery, FAU, Boca Raton, FL
2015 Student Juried Exhibition, Ritter Art Gallery, FAU, Boca Raton, FL
2015 Art Open House, FAU Visual Arts Center, Boca Raton, FL
2014 Featured Artist, Art Fallout at the Girls Club, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
2014 FAU Arts Day, FAU Visual Arts Center, Boca Raton, FL
2014 Student Juried Exhibition, Ritter Art Gallery, FAU, Boca Raton, FL
2013 Lake Worth 100 Mail Art, Lake Worth Museum, Lake Worth, FL
2013 Festival of the Arts, FAU Visual Arts Center, Boca Raton, FL
2013 Art Journaling, Jaffe Center for Book Arts, FAU, Boca Raton, FL
2013 Student Juried Exhibition, Ritter Art Gallery, FAU, Boca Raton, FL
PUBLICATIONS AS EDITOR
2019 Bat City Review, Issue 15, (print and web)
2017 The Crescent: Vol. 1, (print)
2016 The Cabbage Palm, (print)
2016 Flip Out: Open Up, (print)
PRESS
2021 Meet Brooke Frank | Artist, Shoutout Miami, Miami, FL
2019 Hero Ready, MFA Thesis Catalog, Essay by Sofia Retta, Austin, TX (print)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2021 – Present, Adjunct, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
2020 – Present, Adjunct, Nova Southeastern University, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
2019 – 2020, Lecturer, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
2017 – 2019 Teaching Assistant, University or Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
2016 – 2017 Curatorial Assistant, University Galleries, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
2016 – 2017 Gallery Coordinator, IS Projects, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, October
2014 – 2015 Studio Assistant to Dorothy Simpson Krause
2012 – 2015 Student Assistant at the Jaffe Center for Book Arts, Wimberly Library, FAU,
SPEAKING
2021 Conversation with Brooke Frank and Amalia Mermingas, FAR Gallery, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
2020 Panel Discussion: Inner Out, Moonmist via Zoom, Houston, TX
2018 Gallery Walkthrough: Another Green World, Visual Arts Center, UT, Austin, TX
2018 Panel Discussion: Another Green World, Visual Arts Center, UT, Austin, TX
2016 Panel Discussion: Now What? Recent FAU grads discuss various tracks in the South Florida art landscape, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL (April 20th)
SELECTED WORKSHOPS
2021 Simple Bindings, Small Press Fair ’21 at South Regional/Broward College Library, Pembroke Pines, FL
2021 Leather Travel Journal, IS Projects, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
2020 Guest Artist: Sketchbooks, The Art Local via Zoom, Austin, TX
2016 Workshop Series: Sketchbook Club: Habits, IS Projects, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
2016 Texture, Rubbings bound in a simple book, ages 4 – 12, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
2016 Collage and Bookbinding, SunServe LGBTQIA+ Youth Group, Girls’ Club, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
2016 Commit to Sketchbooks, Jaffe Center for Book Arts, Boca Raton, FL
2015 Sewn Boards Binding, Jerry’s Artarama, Deerfield Beach, FL
2015 Papier-Mâché, Armory Art Center’s Spring Break Camp, West Palm Beach, FL
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