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Frank Sisti Jr. is an artist that lives and works in New York City.  He is married to Melia Marden, a chef, cookbook author, and collector.  They have two children, Alfred and Daphne, each of which is strange and insane in their own way. 

  

In the early part of his life and career Frank focused primarily on writing, filmmaking, set design, and abstract musical production.  Later, he expanded his work to include elements of sculpture, photography, found art, and a rigorous color-exploration process – which is most obvious in his everyday apparel practice.  

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Frank is also an intensive collector af many kinds of items, ideas, and subgenres – including folk art and furniture, things with mistakes, one-of-a-kind things, strange toys, private press records, things from the old future, bottlecaps, and interesting plastic things.  

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Amongst his artistic practices are: shopping, hi-8 video production, papier maché, audio sampling, making new toys from broken ones, cardboard projects, any chance to use pipe cleaners, getting dressed in the morning, a steadfast approach to eBay, rap, rhyme, and an exhaustive music curation that includes an enormous record collection.  

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For more than 20 years, Frank has adhered to a rigorous visitation schedule of what he calls “99¢ Store Surveillance” which is a systematic shopping tour of more than 200 Discount Stores in the tri-state area - looking for the odd, brandless, and insane. Frank considers editing to be the most important tool in his refrigerator with the 99¢ thing being a close second. 

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Combined with the above list of duties and doctrines, Frank’s lifestyle is intertwined with an ongoing dialogue he has with what he calls the 6th Borough of New York - “a place of an interdimensional nature that has been forgotten to time.  It swirls with weirdness, magic, and danger.”  Much of Frank’s early and current work deals with or takes place in the 6th Borough, including the screenplay Bicycle Ice Cream which was bought by Fonzie creator Garry Marshall, his longtime public access and internet shows The Kid America Club and Frankie’s Apartment, and his three albums, Kid America and the Action Figures, Revenge of the Clubhouse, and Beyond The Alphabet.   

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Sticker-making, as in – the creation of die-cut, colorful and designed stickers, has been a part of Frank’s practice since 1994.  Giving out the stickers and sticking them up all around town being the main point.  Sticker designs include things like eggs, pencils, fire hydrants, and a rendering of a blue recycling bag filled up with recyclable items.

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Frank likes to think this site will further help him to edit his collections and works.  Sometimes seeing something on the internet gives you another vantage point.  Maybe some stuff is actually trash and should be released to the ether.  Frank is not opposed to throwing things in the garbage. 

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