Frankie C. H. IP BA, AOCAD
Thornhill, ON Canada

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Frankie Ip is a contemporary landscape, abstract and conceptual artist with extensive training in art and design in Asia and North America. Rooted in the orient and moulded by a western art education, Frankie knows both Eastern and Western cultures. Directly and indirectly, these influences have helped him to develop his signature style.

“Painting is like playing music or writing a poem. It is the way I express my concept of beauty, my passion and feeling, as well as my view of the world. I choose painting because I love the vibrant colours; I experiment with the flexibility of form and design, while enjoying the absence of boundaries in the creative process.”

Frankie has travelled extensively in Canada documenting local landscapes and studying the inhabitants’ relationships with their environment. Art is his way of fostering an awareness of the beauty of nature and concern for the environment and encouraging an understanding of the uniqueness of every individual.

His experiences have stimulated Frankie’s expression in multiple aesthetic directions and artistic forms: landscape, abstract and conceptual art but always relying on colour and texture to give voice to his obvious passion for nature and the environment. Frankie extends his usage of oil on canvas to mixed media and diverse surfaces using fused and contrasting colours, integrated with complex textural forms, to transport the viewer to new visual destinies. He joyfully merges realistic form with abstract expression in an autonomist style that gives his work its strength of character and personality.

Frankie's work is held in public institutional and private collections in Canada, the USA and Asia. He is a graduate of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Ontario College of Art and Design.

Exhibitions
  • Aurora Cultural Centre Juried Show & Sale, Aurora, Ontario; June 2010
  • Colour and Form Society Juried Show, Toronto, Ontario; May 2010
    ⁃ Mayor’s Art Showcase, Markham, Ontario; May 2010
    ⁃ Toronto Art Expo, Toronto, Ontario; February 2010
  • ArtTrax Gallery, Port Credit, Ontario; Christmas Gala Juried Show, December 2009-February 2010
  • Toronto Art Expo, Toronto, Ontario; March 2009
  • ExpoArt Montréal, Montréal, Québec; October 2008
  • Touch, McKay Art Centre, Unionville, Ontario; May 2008
  • The Varley Gallery Fine Art Auction; Unionville, Ontario; May 2008
  • Toronto Art Expo; Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, Ontario; March 2008
  • 12th Annual York Region Artists Juried Exhibition; Varley Art Galley, Markham, Ontario; November 2007 – January 2008
  • Kaleidoscope, McKay Art Centre, Unionville, Ontario; August, 2007
  • The Varley Gallery Fine Art Auction; Unionville, Ontario; May 2007
  • Toronto Art Expo; Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, Ontario; March 2007
  • Georama, McKay Art Centre, Unionville, Ontario June – July, 2006
  • Toronto Art Expo; Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, Ontario; March 2006
  • 10th Annual York Region Artists Juried Exhibition; Varley Art Galley, Markham, Ontario; December 2005 – January 2006
  • ecoHarmony, PI International Fine Art; Toronto, Ontario; October 2005
  • Wagner Rosenbaum Gallery (group exhibition), Toronto, Ontario; May-June 2005
  • Toronto Art Expo; Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, Ontario; March 2005
  • 9th Annual York Region Artists Juried Exhibition; Varley Art Galley, Markham, Ontario; November 2004-January 2005
  • Perceiving New-Found-Land; Wagner Rosenbaum Gallery; Toronto, Ontario; June-July, 2004
  • Colour and Form Society First Annual Juried Exhibition, Toronto Ontario; May- June 2004
  • Latcham Gallery Annual Juried Exhibition; Stouffville, Ontario; March-May 2004
  • Toronto Art Expo; Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, Ontario; March 2004
  • 8th Annual York Region Artists Juried Exhibition; Varley Gallery, Unionviolle, Ontario; August-October 2003
  • Cornutopia, Wagner Rosenbaum Gallery (solo exhibition); Toronto, Ontario; August-September 2003
  • Your Own Choice (group exhibition); Praxis Gallery, Toronto, Ontario; August 2003
  • Uxbridge Festival of the Arts Juried Exhibition; Uxbridge, Ontario; May 2003
  • The Broken Fence Society 5th Annual Juried Environmental Art Show; Toronto, Ontario; April-May, 2000
  • Scarborough Arts Council 18th Annual Juried Art Show; Toronto, Ontario; April 2003
  • The Latcham Gallery Annual Juried Exhibition; Stouffville, Ontario, March-May, 2003
  • OCAD Gallery (three artist exhibition), Toronto, Ontario; January 2003
  • Toronto Public Library, Brookbanks Branch (solo exhibition), Toronto, Ontario; January-February, 2003
  • Toronto Public Library, Fairview District Branch (solo exhibition); Toronto, Ontario; October - November 2002
  • 7th Annual York Region Artists Juried Exhibition; Varley Art Galley, Markham, Ontario; August-September 2002
  • GO WEST, OCAD Thesis Exhibition, Toronto, Ontario; April 2002
  • Society of Canadian Artists, 35th Open Juried Exhibition; John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto, Ontario; March 2002
  • Scarborough Arts Council, 17th Annual Juried Art Show; Scarborough Municipal Centre, Scarborough, Ontario; March 2002
  • 6th Annual York Region Artists Juried Exhibition; Varley Art Galley, Markham, Ontario; July - August 2001
  • Humber Valley Conservation Authority Millennium Juried Exhibition; McNailery, Toronto Ontario; June-October 2001