Frank Frazier - First Art Source

Frank Frazier
Frank Frazier was born in Harlem. He left home at 16 to pursue his artistic career, but this effort was interrupted by service in the Vietnam War. In 1971, while spending over a year in a VA Hospital recovering from his war injuries, Frazier began his first professional artistic effort, a series of oil paintings based on his war experiences. This project helped his recovery from his traumatic experience, but it also convinced Frazier that he needed to work with faster media. As a result, he switched from oil painting to pen-and-ink, acrylics, and watercolors. Frazier is perhaps best known for his Tribal Series, in which he uses bright colors and geometric figures to express his Pan-African “community-of-family” philosophy. In order to enhance his artistic vision, Frazier has made several trips to Africa. Working with the daughter of South African Bishop Desmond Tutu, Frazier produced a poster Apartheid to support the Bishop Tutu Southern African Refugee Scholarship Fund.