FRANKSULLIVAN

Artist Frank Sullivan was raised in Marlborough, Massachusetts, 20 miles west of Boston. Through high school he studied drawing and painting with local artist George Lynch. He went on earn his BA in Visual Arts at the College of the Holy Cross, where he studied Drawing and Printmaking under Elizabeth Peak and Painting under Michael Tang and Daniel Hill. He continued his studies in Printmaking under a Fellowship in the Graduate Fine Arts program at The American University and later studied Graphic Design and Illustration at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. In 2005, he left his career as a graphic deasigner and illustrator to move to northern Maine, converting the old potato barn on his property into an art studio and gallery, where he continues to draw, paint, and teach. He is also a member of the Fine Arts faculty at the University of Maine at Presque Isle, where he teaches courses in Drawing, Painting, Color Theory, and the Senior Thesis Project, and also serves as Director of the Reed Art Gallery and the University Art Collection. He has exhibited his work extensively in solo exhibitions and group shows throughout Maine, Massachusetts, and other parts of the US and hundreds of his works hang in private collections. In 2024 he published a book, Images & Words, that contains images of 31 of his paintings accompanied by short essays about his process.