“16th Annual National Juried Art Exhibition”

This show was a national juried exhibition that featured 60 artists from all over the country at GoggleWorks Center for the Arts.

Awards were given to Best in Show, First Runner Up, and Second Runner up by guest juror Colleen Gutwein O’Neal. The GoggleWorks staff also awarded an exhibition to a single artist “whose artwork and portfolio speaks to GoggleWorks’ mission of transforming lives through unique interactions with art.”

The full catalog can be viewed here.

“The exhibition aims to curate a selection of exemplary artworks from artists around the country and will showcase 60 artists whose artworks spanning across several mediums such as drawing, painting, sculpture, print, collage, photography and more.”

“eleven20 @ Five10”

This group show, hosted by the Baum School of Art in Allentown, Pennsylvania, featured work from many of the resident artists at the eleven20 Art Studios & Gallery. The world of serendipity, where chance encounters and unforeseen discoveries shape our journey through life.

“Eleven20 is an artist owned and operated hub of studios and makerspaces housed in a converted 1925 industrial building located in the West Ward of Easton.”

“Serendipity Sky: The Unexpected Adventure”

This exhibition was a group show at ArtPort Kingston in Kingston, NY, curated by Laurie De Chiara and featuring the works of Lauren Cohen, Kellianne McCarthy, Katie Ford, Santina Amato, Pin Hsin, Remy Sosa, Martine Kaczynski, Elise Church, Marianne Peragallo, & myself.

“The world of serendipity, where chance encounters and unforeseen discoveries shape our journey through life.”

“repass | a fossilized drift”

This exhibition was a duo gallery show with Bryan Matthew Scott in the upstairs gallery at eleven20 Art Studios in Easton, Pennsylvania.

Through assemblages by Bryan and mixed media works by me, we explored the conversation of giving new life to discarded materials. A majority of my work shown was of the ‘Cubes’ collection made between December of 2022 and July of 2023.

“Infinite Surface”

This exhibition was a duo gallery show with J G Orudjev at NOMA Gallery in Frederick, Maryland.

“In “Infinite Surface”, both artists address the surfaces created in their work as both projection and meaning. Orudjev primarily in collage, abstracting narrative from ephemera and found paper, and Frankenfield cutting a shoreline between thought and space in his constructions of color and shape.

Between the inner and the outer worlds, between macro and micro, between thought and act, lie layers of surface. Strata of concept from which we make, and take, meaning.

Each surface is infinite in its meaning, alive within the perception of the viewer.”

Perceptual Engineering

This exhibition was in conjunction with Express Newark’s Artist in Residence, Willie Cole, and the Problems in Contemporary Art course co-taught with artist and American Studies PhD student, Colleen Gutwein O’Neal.

“It is the certainty of “knowing” that limits one’s ability to see familiar things in new ways, and the imagination that allows one to perceive things differently. Visual transformation occurs only when one can discard what one “thinks” he or she knows. Upon doing so one can then view the world as if it is being seen for the first time. It is ironic however that the roots of any new perception are often based in subconscious memories or recollections of things previously seen. One might even say that it is almost impossible to see something that you have never seen before.”

New York Times Article written by Laura Van Straaten

NO RETURN - Non-Archival, One-Way, & Temporary Works

Part of Manifest Gallery’s Season 19 exhibitions shown in the north gallery.

“NO RETURN is a show for temporary, one-way, and non-archival artwork—works that are not really 'collectible', that aren’t meant to last, maybe not even long enough to return to its maker at the end of the exhibition... or be handed down to a future generation.”

eleven20 @ 2thirteen Group Show

Resident artists from eleven20 group show at Connexions Gallery featured multiple artists from multiple disciplines.