Frank McCauley was born in Jacksonville, FL in 1980. Upon receiving his BFA in painting from Winthrop University in 2003, he moved north to Syracuse, NY where he attended Syracuse University and received his MFA in 2008. Frank has been the Director and Curator for Spark Contemporary Art Space in Syracuse, NY, the Assistant Director and Chief Curator for the Sumter County Gallery of Art, and is currently the Gallery Director and Curator for VisArts in Rockville, MD. As an artist he has been in numerous group exhibitions both nationally and internationally and has had solo exhibitions in SC, CA, NY as well as South America.
Statement
Whether through printmaking, painting, video or performance, my work extends from an internal investigation of childhood role models, popular icons and cultural stereotypes, questioning commonly held assumptions of how we construct our own individual identities.