Frank Gillette

Year of birth, place
Jersey City, United States
lives and works in
Manhattan and East Hampton, New York, United States
Biography

Frank Gillette was the founding director of Raindance and produced several multi-channel works which draw parallels between technological, ecological and cognitive processes. He is the author of numerous published works including »Between Paradigms« (1973) and »Of Another Nature« (1988) and has been the recipient of fellowships from the Rockefeller and Guggenheim Foundations as well as grants from the New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. Before setting up Raindance in 1969, Gillette taught courses in Post-World War II Painting and Marshall Mcluhan at the Free University of New York. Gillette now actively works in painting, drawing and photograph and lives and works in Manhattan and East Hampton, New York.