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Welcome to the new home for Frank Gaard's online gallery and blog.

Blogs

05/13/10

I grew up in Chicago during the time Pepsi Cola was the pop of choice. In the morning we'd search for empty pop bottles in the alley (worth 2 cents each) then a 12 oz. bottle of pop was 8 cents . So you'd need to find at least 4 or 5 empty bottles and another couple for a 5 cent bag of chips.… Read More

04/28/10

Capital you have to have some money to make art. When I started in the 1960's you could do alot with a small amount of money. Art school at the art institute's college was under $2000 a year! In the art schools you were pretty much left alone, I remember Ray Yoshita was my 4th year sponsor and I… Read More

04/19/10

 Went to see 1964 an exhibition of contemporary art made in that year the curator is Siri Enberg whose been at the Walker a long while. Anyway I was excited to see this show because 1964 was a big year for me art school was different after pop art popped. The show had a… Read More

04/12/10

Greetings Humans - From high over your art museums we suck your masterpieces up into our rocket ships .In the early 1980's the art school I worked at was suddenly fabulous for a brief interval in time. It was the French Deconstructive theory hitting a small midwestern art school arts department… Read More

04/05/10

I wrote a blog for Sammy the Administrator formerly webmaster (which always sounded like S & M with spiders hence the WEBMASTER not unlike Spiderman only more kinky) yea so the writing vanished I must have hit the wrong button on the laptop. I've been thinking about the tech… Read More