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Posted in Press on Sep 26th, 2009
Koe Magazine Interview (from my Japan visit)
Perhaps the best of art is when it makes you both appreciate and forget the medium being used. Canadian photographer Frank Grisdale certainly achieves this much in his work. He also challenges the boundaries between photography and painting with a photographic style and post- production methods that seem to [...]
Posted in Press, representation on Jan 13th, 2009
Recently I signed on with GalleryStock – Licensing Images From The World’s Premier Photographers - a photographers media licensing agency, based out of New York and London. The company represents some amazing artists, so I concluded instantly that maybe it would help my career to be associated with the cream of the crop, however indirectly. [...]
Posted in Press on Dec 12th, 2008
FRANK GRISDALE’S NEW PHOTOGRAPHIC WORK | Photographer feels distinctive approach carries more impact | Review by Gilbert Bouchard
Age-old subject matters get a fresh twist in a photography show hosted at the Peter Robertson Gallery. Frank Grisdale’s 22-image landscape show splits the difference between photography and painting. The established Alberta photographer documents familiar Prairie and Rocky [...]
A photograph has aesthetic qualities intrinsic to the medium itself: an outward-looking or existential determination; a framing of the subject that separates it from its usual spatial and temporal reality; and, as a consequence, a silence or stillness of image. Another, older notion of aesthetics is a philosophy of beauty or expression of beauty through [...]
“Grisdale’s use of lens and color make his landscape photos ‘dreamlike’, it is as if a person was walking through a secret path in the forest with a centaur, having a telepathic conversation while admiring the trees as they fade in and out of reality.” – Erin Carter – The Prairie Artster
Posted in Press on Oct 3rd, 2008
I was delighted to be hunted down by AARP this week. They want to use a photo of mine for an article due January and February of 2009.
AARP stands for the Association of American Retired People, and is based out of Washington DC.
They have the highest confirmed magazine circulation in the world at 40 million.
The [...]