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Frank X. Tolbert 2

During the forty years of my career as an artist I have worked in a narrative style. I work with graphite, oil stick, oil paint, and watercolors. I consider myself a "drawer" regardless of the medium. The marks I make are my emotional responses to what is going on around me. My work is about the mundane, the real, the surreal and the absurdities of life on Earth.

From a KHFA interview with Frank X: "The full spectrum of life is represented in these portraits. One of my favorite group of portraits I did was of the Hornaday family in Austin. I did each one individually, but the simple fact that it was the husband, the wife and their son made it special. One of the most fun parts of doing these is actually capturing the spirit of that person and its a difficult thing to do. I consider these pieces 'presidential scale' because they are typically the size you'd see in the capitol building or in Washington DC. They are a scale and a half above human size."

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Exhibition: "Narrative Identity" KHFA interview with the artist