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Frank N. Stone’s Gallery Journal: A 2027 Calendar
I have been creating calendars from my artwork since 2016. Every year, I choose twelve paintings and organize them in a way that makes sense to me. This year was a little different. Instead of it all being me, I decided to let Frank N. Stone try his hand at the calendar.
Frank is my painted interpretation of a stone grotesque from the 1915 Praetorian Building in Waco, Texas. He has a face built for observation. He also looks like someone who has seen quite a bit and formed opinions about most of it.
That made him the perfect companion for twelve paintings. I figured he had nothing better to do so he may as well give us his rambling observations.
The 2027 calendar became his gallery journal. Each month, Frank encounters another painting and reports what he sees.
Thankfully, Frank is not an art critic and does not offer critiques of technique or artistic intent. He looks at each painting, decides what is happening and tells us what he thinks. Sometimes he approves. Sometimes he has questions. Either way, Frank has something to say.
He accepts some things more easily than others.
Frank appears on the cover, but the twelve featured paintings still have the months to themselves. His journal entries connect them without requiring the crab, the shark and Mount Rushmore to pretend they have anything in common.
The finished calendar is called Frank N. Stone’s Gallery Journal: A 2027 Calendar. The cover promises “Twelve original paintings. One unforgettable companion.”
I picked up the completed calendars from the printer this weekend. Seeing the finished stack was different from reviewing individual pages on a computer screen. Frank now has an actual cover, an actual journal and twelve months of observations ready to leave my house.
After standing on a building for more than a century, I figured he had seen just about everything and was ready to share his observations.
The 2027 calendars are available in two sizes: 8.5 × 14 for $25 and 11 × 17 for $30. They are available at StreetSmARTs Studios & Gallery and will also be available at the Village Art Festival on October 3. If you would like one directly from me, send me a message through The 3rd Flamingo website.
Whether 2027 is ready for Frank remains to be seen.
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