Artist Statement

Art authors worlds and worlds are made memorable through stories. 

Whether  I am making a painting or composing music or writing, I try to imbue each thing with a story that elicits a sense of something else: a pause, a change in expectations, what’s going on here? I draw from sources that are recognizable—such as from religion or mythology—yet radiate with strangeness: narratives that can never be entirely known; disclosures that become new secrets.

The work of other artists that inspires me speaks in private languages or sings old tales in new keys. These include John Cage, Brian Eno, Arshile Gorky, Lee Krasner, Francis Picabia and Steve Reich.

Narrative emerges through context: the environments of meaning and contradiction of music and other artworks. That is what I have organized my work in galleries, each with its own sound. These elements, working together, make another way of seeing, of listening: another world.

Bio

Frank Menchaca is a writer, composer, musician and artist. Frank was born in New York and currently lives in Pittsburgh. His professional career revolves around sustainability in energy with his company Auzolan LLC.

Frank has published two books of poetry. His first, Nicolo G---- and the Days of November, was picked as one of the best books of the year by the Village Voice Literary Supplement. He is the editor of a series of sustainable engineering textbooks with Wiley.

Frank holds degrees in English and Spanish literature from New York University and in English literature from Yale University and Chief Sustainability Officer certification from MIT. He has released ten albums of original music under his own name and five as part of the duo Hourloupe. He and his wife Deirdre have three sons, Gabriel, Aidan and William, and a dog, Patxi.