THE OBSERVING HEART
Curated by David Hornung
Samuel Dorsky Museum, SUNY New Paltz
Feb 5th - July 17, 2022
Opening Reception April 3rd 2022, 2-5PM

Image courtesy of Bob Wagner, Dorsky Museum

FROM FACTS TO WONDER: MARY FRANK’S ENIGMATIC FIGURES
Glenn Adamson
March 8th, 2022

MARY FRANK'S WORLD ON DISPLAY AT DORSKY MUSEUM
Lynn Woods
March 12, 2022

Available in Metropolitan Museum of Art Gift Shop, Main Floor

Pilgrimage: Photographs by Mary Frank
Essays by Terry Tempest Williams and John Yau
2017

The Eakins Press Foundation published the first collection of Mary's photographs in an exquisitely produced volume with texts by the renowned poet and critic, John Yau, and the environmental activist and author, Terry Tempest Williams.

From John Yau’s introduction:
Mary Frank brings us the news that has always been real and true: the indomitable will to survive, while believing that there is more to life than the struggle to stay alive. Her photographs are cenotaphs, reminders, chronicles of our ceaseless setting forth, acts of homage and resurrection. She looks at the world without blinking or turning away, and to be her readers we must follow her, wherever she takes us, as well as reflect upon what she is telling us, in images as sharp as the stones she has gathered, and as tender as the hands that collected them.

From Terry Tempest Williams’ afterword:
Mary Frank is a woman who meets the world in turbulence and grace. Hers is the art of struggle and it is beautiful. She is alive. She is unruly. She is defiant. And every day, she goes forward in a fearless state of bewilderment—ecstatic, energetic and enduring.