Gabriela Frank

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[sic] - Mixed media collage
Artist Statement
In my art practice, mixed media collage is a key exchange zone between archetypes, symbols, happy accidents, the body, the mind, the subconscious, and the collective unconscious. This [im]possibility space invites elements that have no earthly business with each other to intermingle and react—a process that can reveal truths about reality that realism often misses. The remixed nature of collage reflects the hybridity of the world we live in; “[sic]” speaks directly to this. The physical process of cutting images by hand and allowing them to shift several times before anything permanent happens is essential to my approach. 

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Gabriela Denise Frank is a transdisciplinary artist, editor, educator, and winner of the Fern Academy Prize. Her writing and visual art have appeared in BOMB Magazine, Pinch, Poet Lore, Chicago Review, DIAGRAM, Northwest Review, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. The author of "How to Not Become the Breaking" (Gateway Literary Press 2025), she serves as creative nonfiction editor of Crab Creek Review.