WORKS OF A CLASSICAL NATURE
STUDIED:
Art Center School, Los Angeles
University of Arizona, Tucson - BFA
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago – MFA (1963)
TAUGHT:
Illinois State University; Normal, Illinois
Wayne State University, Detroit
Siena Heights College; Adrian, Michigan
Indiana / Purdue University, Fort Wayne, Indiana
EXHIBITED:
Peoria Art Center; Peoria, Illinois
Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, New Orleans
The Mobile Art Gallery; Mobile, Alabama
The Butler Institute of American Art; Youngstown
The Mint Museum of Art; Charlotte, N. C.
The Detroit Artists’ Market, Detroit
New Library Gallery; Windsor, Ontario
The Willis Art Gallery, Detroit
Grand Rapids Art Museum; Grand Rapids
Fort Wayne Art Museum; Fort Wayne, Indiana
The Evansville Museum of Art ; Evansville, Indiana
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Lee Hall Gallery; Marquette, Michigan
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
From a classical point of view, the work of art is the fulfillment of desire.
It is plentitude, the ideal: It is the image of things as they ought to be.
In particular, the work of art contains the balance of opposites, an equilibrium
or harmony of seemingly contradictory elements. It is the expression
of the one as seen in, or through, the many.
- Frank Mannarino
The following website represents possibly one percent of the entire collection of my father’s artwork. He was prolific, producing at least one drawing each day of his life, except maybe when, I came to visit him in either Chicago or Tucson.He met my mother at the University of South Alabama in Mobile. She was his model for a number of years. Unfortunately, they divorced in 1970 separating Frank and I until 1985 when we were reunited.
For the past 25 years, we would see one another at least once a year. I would either visit him in Chicago, where he was the manager of the Ginger Man Tavern or we would meet in Tucson, where his parents/my grandparents lived. Frank was diagnosed with Malignant Glioma (brain cancer) in early 2007. After the surgery and treatments, he was unable to concentrate long enough to complete any monumental works. The majority of his collection containing over 200 paintings and thousands of drawings are now under my care in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Frank's dying wish he shared with me and his sister, Lauretta Peters, was that he wanted a retrospective of his artwork with the proceeds from art sales going to brain cancer research. We fulfilled that wish with an exhibition on September 28 - 29, 2018 at the AVA Galleries, 30 Frazier Avenue, Chattanooga, Tennessee.
From that show, we made a $2,500 contribution to the Frank Mannarino Brain Cancer Research Fund at Duke Cancer Institute. Proceeds from the sale of his work continue to go towards this important research. If you would like to make a gift directly to the fund, please go to: https://www.gifts.duke.edu/
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