Frank Curran

I'm a Painter and Printmaker working in upstate New York. Painted works are primarily oil on canvas or panel. The body of printed work includes copperplate Intaglio prints (etching, drypoint etc.) and Relief or Letterpress (woodcut, wood engraving, handset type and letterpress variants.)

The painting and printmaking studios are a multi decade creation providing a facility for the craft of art to flourish. The studio space can host a complex project or a spontaneous work session with another artist. Having learned woodworking and design early on and making that my "day job" by 1980, the studio plays "laboratory" to art creation work.

I use both printmaking and painting to record simple observations as well as to embark on more complex artistic and aesthetic investigations. Paintings can inspire a print project and printmaking can be be a catalyst for a painting series.

Showing:

Frank Curran has been exhibiting his work in regional group shows and solo exhibits since 1983. Gallery inquiries see "Contact" page for contact information.

Timeline:

Frank studied with Ian Kirby and Ros Freer from 1977 to 1980. Their focus at "Kirby Studios" was to teach design using traditional English furniture making as a "medium." 1980 marks the launch of my "day job" - a custom architectural woodwork and furniture business. Renting/borrowing studio space led, in 1994 to building the first printing and painting studio within a larger "workshop" building. The current studios, started in 2000, are central to the printmaking side of his work as well as providing a home base for painting.