Frank Stoks

digital - body - drawing

People are central to my work. It is about everyone's uniqueness. That everyone has their own expression, body language and beauty. To catch a moment of this and to display it in a drawing or animation.

The interaction between each other is becoming an increasingly important part of the work. Which is reflected in live performing. Then it is about an experience. With a drawing as residue,

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    • Everything is Possible

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 01-07-2021 t/m 01-08-2021
    • In collaboration with: Public Works
    • Location: Throughout the city and the Maastunnel, Rotterdam
    • A wide selection of 670 artists have A2 posters spread in the outdoor area. Where advertising posters normally hang. Now hanging art.
    • https://publiekewerkenrotterdam.nl/?page_id=1375

    Portrait Rotterdam

    Exhibition / presentation

    Wild Summer of Art (part l)

    Exhibition / presentation

    Frank Stoks is an artist and sometimes draws up to 30 strangers on the street

    Other

    • 10-01-2023 t/m 10-01-2023
    • In collaboration with: Open Rotterdam TV
    • Location: City Center, Rotterdam
    • If you walk through the city during the week, you may be approached by Frank Stoks. He is an artist, was once even a city cartoonist and some days walks through the city for hours drawing passers-by. Frank has been drawing passing townspeople on his tablet for years. Sometimes he asks them if they want to pose, other times he does it secretly. “The most enjoyable part are the conversations you have with people. You get to know a lot of people a little bit this way.
    • https://openrotterdam.nl/frank-stoks-is-kunstenaar-en-tekent-soms-wel-30-vreemdelingen-op-straat-ik-hou-van-het-directe/

    Mighty nighty mouse!

    Performance

    • 04-03-2023 t/m 05-03-2023
    • Location: Nature Historical Museum, Rotterdam
    • Look over the shoulders of Frank Stoks, the Rotterdam Speedy Gonzales among the cartoonists. He quickly turns you into a beastly cartoon, and your best characteristics naturally predominate! The portraits together form a family of animals that are projected on the large wall under the sperm whale during the night. Have your image printed as a night mouse and spread through the city together with others like a veritable plague of mice.
    • https://www.hetnatuurhistorisch.nl/bezoek/activiteiten/activiteit/museumnacht-2023-4-maart-2023/

    Frank Stoks exhibits in the month of April

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 01-04-2023 t/m 30-04-2023
    • Location: Leidschenveen Library, The Hague
    • Exhibition of new works and drawings drawn live by people in the library.

    Framework 2

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 25-06-2023 t/m 01-10-2023
    • In collaboration with: Edwin de Voigt
    • Location: NE Studios Noordereiland, Rotterdam
    • Edwin and Frank just went on an adventure on the North Island. They quickly agreed. They scoured lunchrooms, pubs and quays, spoke to islanders on the street and simply rang people's doorbells. They met catering tigers, ex-NATO radar experts, (former) skippers, tourists on a team outing, a historian and a world-famous evangelical cartoonist. Frank with his I-Pad and pencil and Edwin with notebook and ballpoint pen. Stories were collected and islanders were portrayed. The poem
    • https://www.nestudios.nl/raamwerk/

    GRAW

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 16-09-2023 t/m 17-09-2023
    • Location: Studio Frank Stoks Koraalstraat 17, Rotterdam
    • Open studios - Since 1999, artists have settled in the studio complex at Koraalstraat 17, which dates from 1928 and was originally used as a school. The former classrooms now provide work space for artists. The beautiful building houses ten artists from various disciplines: drawing, painting, photography, sculpture and conceptual art.
    • https://www.grootrotterdamsatelierweekend.nl/locaties/ateliers-koraalstraat/

    Acknowledgments

      Publication

    • Portrait Rotterdam

    • 2021
    • Book
    • Stoks publications - Frank Stoks-Audrey Hartman