Artist Talk: Francks Deuces

Art­Crawl Harlem presents an Artist Talk with Francks Deceus on his ​“Spring Break” series of paint­ings. Francks F. Deceus born in Cap-Hai­tien, Haiti, and cur­rent­ly resides and main­tains a stu­dio in Brook­lyn, NY. He received a B.A. in soci­ol­o­gy from Long Island Uni­ver­si­ty. His art­work is aes­thet­i­cal­ly influ­enced by artists like Nor­man Lewis and Howard­de­na Pin­dell, and rever­ber­ates with some of the artis­tic strains of his native Haiti. His mod­ernist style com­bines fig­u­ra­tive, abstract, and lay­ered ele­ments and relies heav­i­ly on a sim­pli­fi­ca­tion of form and func­tion. His works char­ac­ter­ized by a semi­otic econ­o­my, min­i­mal­ist use of imagery, and a delib­er­ate­ly lim­it­ed palette range with­in series of work.

Art­Crawl Harlem is one of the 2024 Gov­er­nors Island Arts Orga­ni­za­tions in Res­i­dence.