Frankie Ip @ artavita

Frankie Ip

Location: Canada

Painting, like playing music or writing a poem, is the way I express my concept of beauty, my passion and feeling, as well as my view of the world. I use vibrant colours and experiment with the flexibility of form and design, enjoying the absence of boundaries in the creative process. I express my passion in multiple aesthetic directions and artistic forms: landscape; abstract; conceptual, always relying on colour and texture. I extend the use of oil on canvas to mixed media and diverse surfaces, incorporating fused and contrasting colours, integrated with complex textural forms. I merge realistic forms with abstract expression in an autonomist style that gives my work its strength of character and personality.
web: www.frankie-ip.ca

Portfolio:

Equilibrium

The work of Frankie IP is chiefly concerned with equilibrium - the conditions of a system in which competing influences are balanced harmoniously. Employing a vast array of mixed media on canvas or wood in sculptural relief, the artist’s pop eclecticism confronts landscape, abstraction and conceptual art. Trained in Fine Art and Design in both Asia and North America, Frankie IP’s oriental roots are shaped extensively by his Western education. His hybrid practice absorbs the esoteric wisdom of both East and West to stimulating ends. Using light and its degree of absorption relative to an object as a starting point, these robust compositions feature an endless, free-floating array of juxtapositions and binary associations – light/dark, smooth/rough and dominant/submissive all emerge as reoccurring motifs which are illuminated with rigorous accuracy.
Born in Hong Kong, Frankie IP has lived in Canada for many years and currently lives and work in Toronto. His work is held in public and private collections in Canada, the USA and Asia.

Jazz 7 “Jazz 7”