Nadja Frank

Nadja Frank’s work operates on the edge between painting, sculpture and architectural environments. Geology and man’s footprint as visible over time are themes always present in varying degrees of prominence in her work. Frank has a talent for distorting our sense of scale by shifting fluidly between micro and macro worlds. As evidenced in her “Rock Portraits,” (2014) Frank shows reverence to simple materials and objects, therefore exalting them beyond their definitions.

Frank received her Diploma in Fine Arts with Honors from Hochschule fur bildende Künste in Hamburg, Germany in 2008, and her MFA from Columbia University in 2011. She has exhibited internationally in solo exhibitions at 401contemporary Berlin/London in Berlin; Margini Arte Contemporanea in Massa, Italy; Galerie Conradi in Hamburg; and in group exhibitions at the Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College in Pennsylvania, Kunst und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in Bonn, Kunstverein Hamburg, Kolbe Museum in Berlin, Chelsea Art Museum in New York, and Socrates Sculpture Park in New York. Frank was awarded a coveted residency by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Center in 2015-2016.

Courtesy of Denny Gallery