Website

http://frankconnet.com

Relationship status

single

College / University

Kansas City Art Institute

Graduation

20 May 1983

Member type

Artist

If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?

Drawing, Painting, Sculpture

I am...

Primarily a textile based artist living in Chicago

About my artwork

Looking backwards somehow makes me more comfortable moving forward. My work is based on pre-industrial dying and image making techniques, primarily indigo dying using shibori resists.

Artists I like

Albrecht Duher, Fra Angelico, George Innes, Arthur Dove, Ferdinand Hodler, David Hockney, Ruth Duckworth, Richard Serra, Martin Puryear

Interests

Horticulture, botany, the environment, early cultures and history in general, dogs, reading, film...

The centre of the artworld is

nowhere and everywhere