Joey Frank

A pregnant pause. The flick of a wrist, the arc of a swatter, on the cusp of killing a fly.

A painting hangs in the air and measures sixteen feet by four feet by three inches and three quarters.

The time left to the fly is the time for the eye to travel the length of the painting.

In 2018, in total darkness, Joey works with Ana and Michele, heavily pregnant. They pose with large-format photosensitive paper held by their partners. A flash goes off and creates two images in the same instant.

A tiny contact print floats in the center of the larger paper. It depicts the scene of the work’s making, including a miniature image of the photosensitized paper, still blank at the moment of exposure.

April 5, 10.20am, finishing touches to the painting, up a ladder; the earth shakes for twenty seconds.

April 7 is the due date; Joey and Lucy await their baby girl.

April 8, 2.10pm to 4.36 pm, the moon casts its shadow over New York City.

April 12, 6-8pm, Joey Frank’s exhibition opens at Foreign & Domestic, 24 Rutgers Street, New York.

Reincarnation is a study in duality and double takes

patience and haste

intervals and instants

imminence and immanence

creation and procreation

the making of a show, the marking of a print,

the death of a fly and the birth of a child.