John Fayette Frame (born November 27, 1950) is an American sculptor,
photographer, composer and filmmaker. He has been working as an artist
in California since the early 1980s. Frame has been given Grants and
Awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the J. Paul Getty
Museum, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. He has participated
in group exhibitions around the world and has had major solo
exhibitions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Long Beach
Museum of Art, and the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and
Botanical Gardens. After five years of preparation, Part One of "The
Tale of the Crippled Boy", a sweeping project incorporating sculpture,
photography, installation, music and film, premiered at the Huntington
Library in San Marino, California in March 2011.Frame was born in
Colton, California. His father, Rudolph Randolph Frame, had only a
third-grade education and was a welder and sheet metal worker for the
Santa Fe Railway. His mother, Mildred Louise Frame (née Jones) was a
cook in a local middle school. He has two siblings, Robert Wayne Frame
(born 1931) and Phyllis Louise Frame Runyon (born 1943). After his
graduation from the Colton School District, he attended San Diego
State University from 1968 to 1969 and then left Southern California.
During the following four years, he traveled through Europe and North
America. He held multiple jobs including assistant manager of a
discount department store, gas station attendant, bookstore employee,
dishwasher, library assistant, and construction worker. From 1970 to
1971 he was employed by the state psychiatric hospital of New
Hampshire as a psychiatric aide for the criminally insane. He returned
to Southern California in 1972 and completed an undergraduate degree
in English at San Diego State University in 1975. In 1972 he met Laura
Lynn Dierker and they were married in 1977. They have three children:
Katherine Lynn (born 1981), Ashley Fayette (born 1985), and Lilian M.
(born 1987).From 1979 to 1980, Frame attended the Claremont Graduate
School, where he was an assistant in the printmaking department and
foreman in the wood shop. He graduated with an MFA. In 1980, John and
Laura Frame purchased their first home in Wrightwood, California where
Laura had obtained a teaching position in the local elementary school.
At the same time John, along with three fellow artists, (Randall
Lavender, Eve Steele, and Lynn Roylance) leased a 14,000-square-foot
(1,300 m2) building in downtown Los Angeles, known as the Firestone
building, and began converting it to artists' studios. Although this
project was never completed, it became the first artist-in-residence
complex to come under the Los Angeles live/work residency ordinance
for artists. Frame’s studio was located there from 1980 until 1991.
From 1992 until 2001 the artist's primary studio was located in the
Santa Fe art colony in downtown Los Angeles. He also maintained a
small working studio at his home in Wrightwood. During the years at
the Santa Fe colony, his studio became a focal point for many of the
figurative artists working in the Los Angeles area including Jim
Doolan, Lauren Richardson, Jon Swihart, Peter Zokosky, Enjeong Noh,
Brian Apthorp, F. Scott Hess, Cecilia Miguez, Ken Jones, Wes
Christensen, Luis Serrano, Stephen Douglas and Stephen Dean Moore,
among many others. The Los Angeles drawing group met in his studio on
a weekly basis between 1992 and 2001 to draw from live models. Frame
also originated the Los Angeles collaborative group known as the
Bastards.This group consisted of Frame, Jon Swihart, Steve Galloway,
Michael C. McMillan, F. Scott Hess and Peter Zokosky. The Bastards
completed more than 60 collaborative works and had two exhibitions,
one at Hunsaker/Schlesinger gallery in Los Angeles and one at the
Davidson gallery in Seattle, Washington.In 2001, Frame closed his
studio in the Santa Fe art gallery and moved full-time to Wrightwood,
where he continues to live and work.
photographer, composer and filmmaker. He has been working as an artist
in California since the early 1980s. Frame has been given Grants and
Awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the J. Paul Getty
Museum, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. He has participated
in group exhibitions around the world and has had major solo
exhibitions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Long Beach
Museum of Art, and the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and
Botanical Gardens. After five years of preparation, Part One of "The
Tale of the Crippled Boy", a sweeping project incorporating sculpture,
photography, installation, music and film, premiered at the Huntington
Library in San Marino, California in March 2011.Frame was born in
Colton, California. His father, Rudolph Randolph Frame, had only a
third-grade education and was a welder and sheet metal worker for the
Santa Fe Railway. His mother, Mildred Louise Frame (née Jones) was a
cook in a local middle school. He has two siblings, Robert Wayne Frame
(born 1931) and Phyllis Louise Frame Runyon (born 1943). After his
graduation from the Colton School District, he attended San Diego
State University from 1968 to 1969 and then left Southern California.
During the following four years, he traveled through Europe and North
America. He held multiple jobs including assistant manager of a
discount department store, gas station attendant, bookstore employee,
dishwasher, library assistant, and construction worker. From 1970 to
1971 he was employed by the state psychiatric hospital of New
Hampshire as a psychiatric aide for the criminally insane. He returned
to Southern California in 1972 and completed an undergraduate degree
in English at San Diego State University in 1975. In 1972 he met Laura
Lynn Dierker and they were married in 1977. They have three children:
Katherine Lynn (born 1981), Ashley Fayette (born 1985), and Lilian M.
(born 1987).From 1979 to 1980, Frame attended the Claremont Graduate
School, where he was an assistant in the printmaking department and
foreman in the wood shop. He graduated with an MFA. In 1980, John and
Laura Frame purchased their first home in Wrightwood, California where
Laura had obtained a teaching position in the local elementary school.
At the same time John, along with three fellow artists, (Randall
Lavender, Eve Steele, and Lynn Roylance) leased a 14,000-square-foot
(1,300 m2) building in downtown Los Angeles, known as the Firestone
building, and began converting it to artists' studios. Although this
project was never completed, it became the first artist-in-residence
complex to come under the Los Angeles live/work residency ordinance
for artists. Frame’s studio was located there from 1980 until 1991.
From 1992 until 2001 the artist's primary studio was located in the
Santa Fe art colony in downtown Los Angeles. He also maintained a
small working studio at his home in Wrightwood. During the years at
the Santa Fe colony, his studio became a focal point for many of the
figurative artists working in the Los Angeles area including Jim
Doolan, Lauren Richardson, Jon Swihart, Peter Zokosky, Enjeong Noh,
Brian Apthorp, F. Scott Hess, Cecilia Miguez, Ken Jones, Wes
Christensen, Luis Serrano, Stephen Douglas and Stephen Dean Moore,
among many others. The Los Angeles drawing group met in his studio on
a weekly basis between 1992 and 2001 to draw from live models. Frame
also originated the Los Angeles collaborative group known as the
Bastards.This group consisted of Frame, Jon Swihart, Steve Galloway,
Michael C. McMillan, F. Scott Hess and Peter Zokosky. The Bastards
completed more than 60 collaborative works and had two exhibitions,
one at Hunsaker/Schlesinger gallery in Los Angeles and one at the
Davidson gallery in Seattle, Washington.In 2001, Frame closed his
studio in the Santa Fe art gallery and moved full-time to Wrightwood,
where he continues to live and work.
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