ABOUT

I work in gouache, oils and watercolors. I started on 22x30 Arches paper and eventually graduated to 44x60 hot press watercolor paper, cut from 10-yard rolls. In 2010 I began to explore watercolors and oils in a small postcard size format. Both of these two formats gave me enormous freedom to explore a number of themes, figural, spatial and abstract, working at a scales that draws the viewer deep into the subject.

I am less interested in what my original intentions were for each piece because they always evolve in the process.  I am more interested in what the viewer sees and how he or she interprets it.  I aim for ambiguity, mystery, the blur of a moment, a glimpse of something lost in the passing of everyday life. Sometimes the subject is abstract and still, sometimes it's suffuse with motion.  A passing bus stop or train, an imploding building,  a half empty apartment. Here now and then gone. Each work is an attempt at invention and the transformation of that moment. 

I work in black & white and color. I work with brush, sponge, paper towel and my hands. My works have also been three dimensional, in bas relief composed of rags, glue and paint.  

I am inspired by imagery  captured in photographs, torn from newsprint or drawn purely from my imagination - attempting to capture something that  is haunting, touching, provocative and true.

Frank Lupo, 2020

New York, NY