About the Artist

Florida-born Kentucky artist Bruce Robert Frank has been actively involved in the art
community since the mid-Seventies, creating widely-exhibited, innovative photographic artwork along the way. His current work is an exploration of botanical diversity, incorporating photography with painting and drawing techniques.

Recent Selected Awards and Affiliations

• Sponsored by Lexington Arts and Cultural Council (now LexArts) and private funds to create Garden Door
as part of the 2003 public art project Dynamic Doors, and published in the accompanying catalog
• Awarded 2-person show at LexArt’s exhibit space, ArtsPlace, Fall, 2002
• Awarded solo exhibition, Botanica, by the Lexington Art League, Fall, 2003, MetroLex Gallery
• Juried member of the Kentucky Guild of Artists and Craftsmen
• Juried member of the Kentucky Crafted Visual Arts at the Market program, Kentucky Arts Council,
one of fewer than 100 artists currently in this group statewide
• Awarded solo exhibition for 2007 at the Carnegie Center for Visual and Performing Arts, Covington, KY
• Commissioned by Carleton Varney of Dorothy Draper, Inc. (the oldest established interior design firm in the U.S.) to
create The Dorothy Draper Rose edition of prints, offered at The Greenbrier, Grand Hotel, Museum of the City of New
York, The Women’s Museum in Dallas, and Museum of Art Ft. Lauderdale

Carleton Varney quote from his column in
the Palm Beach Daily News, August 2006

“I have always been a fan of Redouté flowers and ferns, those great, happy botanical images drawn by the great artist.
Imagine having a career where you painted every flower specimen in Empress Josephine’s garden!
Today’s new Redouté might be Bruce Robert Frank, a photographer from Kentucky. This artist is going in the same
direction as Redouté – of this I’m certain – and he is using all the techniques of today to bring startling
new images to the world of interior design. I’m certainly happy to be able to introduce you to his work.”