Tuesday, April 5, 2011

At Huntington Museum: SDSU Alum Wunderkind


Mary Galbraith writes....

Artist John Frame (SDSU English BA,1975; Claremont Graduate University MFA, 1980) has two exhibits at the Huntington Library in San Marino that are well worth a day trip from San Diego.

The first, an uncanny and magical exhibit called "Three Fragments of a Lost Tale," will fascinate children's literature specialists with interests in puppetry and puppet-making, wood carving, commedia dell'arte, Pinocchio, stop-action animation, myth-making, and dream inspiration. That probably covers most people...

Frame has also curated a selection of the Huntington's extensive William Blake collection in an exhibit called "Born to Endless Night." The following article gives a good introduction:
John Frame: The Intuitive

Inside the Huntington's Boone Gallery are 35 completed characters, multiple sets and a working theatrical stage that have been hewn from Frame's imagination over the past five years...

1 comment:

  1. very cool..... teaching kieslowski's DOUBLE LIFE OF VERONIQUE--it resonates with Frame's frames. thanx for the post....

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