League Talks begins its 2023 season with a lecture from League alum and acclaimed artist Billy Gerard Frank. Frank’s lecture will address his interdisciplinary art practice, which approaches themes of global and cross-cultural exchange through a range of forms. In Frank’s body of work, which most recently includes representing Grenada at the 2019 and 2022 Venice Biennales, film becomes essay, portrait becomes theater, and biography becomes art installation. As Frank explores and combines a vast range of media, he creates multifaceted works that offer vital new readings on historical narratives. Join Frank as he unpacks his recent work and lends his perspective as artist and educator, in this talk delivered at one of his earliest art schools.
Billy Gerard Frank, born in Grenada, West Indies, is an Artist, Filmmaker, Production Designer, and founder of the Nova Frontier Film Festival and Multi-disciplinary Lab, showcasing and incubating the works of filmmakers and artists from and about the Global African Diaspora, The Middle East, Latin America. He is also a Lecturer in Directing and Design in the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. Frank’s works address issues of migration, race, and global politics, relating to gender, minority status, and post-colonial subjects. His mix-media artworks and films have been exhibited and screened in group and solo shows in museums, institutions, and international film festivals, winning awards. He represented Grenada at The 58th La Biennale di Venezia 2019 and has the honor of being one of the artists in the collective representing Grenada in the 2022 La Biennale once again. Frank currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
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