John Frame

Sculptor John Frame has lived and worked in Southern California since the early 1980s. In 2006, he began conceptualizing and creating the objects, film, and photographs contained in Three Fragments of a Lost Tale. In keeping with his signature style of finely carved wooden sculpture, Frame has developed an intricately fractured story featuring a cast of unusual characters, each gorgeously rendered, fully articulated figure brought to life through stop-motion photography. The Tale of the Crippled Boy is an ongoing film project that continues to occupy Frame’s studio practice more than a decade after inception.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.