Egan Frantz: Anagram Paintings

Egan Frantz’s “Anagram Paintings” are based on a twofold investigation of the metric system, and Stéphane Mallarmé’s “secret metric” or “unique number.” Grand in scale, they are marked by edge-toedge fields of data, laser-singed across their surfaces and complimented by what the artist calls, “colors that become.” Frantz states, “If modernity triumphed at the turn of the century and we did not know it, and if there is a metric behind all artistic license, then like a hummingbird’s wings, the artistic project of investigation and innovation in the 21st century will continually appear to rest between materiality, invisibility, and nothingness.”