Frank Papandrea

About the artist

Frank Papandrea
Frank Papandrea
Frank Papandrea

Paint

Coconut Creek
FL
United States

    Statement

    My preferred method is pen and ink. Draw the image first in pencil on crescent board, then create the form using a quill. But most important is the idea. What am I going to draw that will shake up the viewer.

     
    I love sarcasm and irony. I am the ultimate cynic. I believe the world is full of shit. Everyone has an issue and no one ever listens to anyone else. So in almost every piece of work I try and point out the absurdity of human thought. The contrasts. It’s easy, take a saying from someone that expounds a point-of-view and put it on the exact opposite image, or in an image that represents some alternate universe. This aint’ new. People have been talking past one another forever. But, what’s the truth?  
     
    My goal is through psychological insight; narrative power; and stylistic accomplishment force the viewer to speculation and conjecture.

    Biography

    Frank Papandrea is an Artist/Creative Director living in South Florida. After graduating from the School of Visual Arts as a Fashion Illustration major, he illustrated 2 editions of the Gentlemen’s Quarterly accessories section. Unfortunately the fashion illustration field dried up and Frank pursued a career in the graphic arts.

     As a Creative Director for the United States Postal Service, Frank won many awards for his graphic design work, but his heart was always in the fine art of expression. He started express himself through his pen and ink illustrations.

    Influenced by Albrecht Dürer's engravings, he begins with subjects that matter. A subject must "mean" something. Artist's are mirror's, and our communication method is pictures. Frank takes his inspiration from life and it's perverse insanity, expressing somewhat bitter views on the world which lurk between the lines. Provocation is always an important element in his work, "Art MUST move you to either hate it or love it, never bore anyone. That's the worst you can say about a piece."  His style reflects images trapped in their "lines", the lines signifying bars of a jail. Situations beyond the subject's control. Images trapped in themselves and their situation. 

    By extending, adapting and updating the Dürer process; and interpreting it in the light of the contemporary spirit, his illustration links the past, the present and the future.

    Through the years he has refined his visual lexicon and aims his work at collector's looking to shakeup their collection.

    Frank continues to express himself through his art and as a creative director for a publishing house in South Florida.

    He has been published in Harper and Collins; Ultimate Illustration.

     
     

     

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