Frank Sunseri

Frank Sunseri’s early interest in art was encouraged by his warm, Sicilian family. After serving four years in the U.S. Air Force during the Vietnam War, he returned to Stockton to study art with Roque Barrera (Delta College) and later with Angelo Grova (UC Santa Cruz).

1975, he began showing his original, welded metal sculptures in Monterey, Carmel, and San Francisco. He assisted Carmel sculptor Malcolm Moran, creating many specialty commissioned sculptures, and with Loet Van Derveen, Don Buby, Victor Zaikine and the Bennett Brothers. He has taught bronze patina application and stone carving.

In 2000, he turned his attention from sculpture to oil painting. Visits to museums in Europe inspired him to study the techniques of the Dutch and Italian Renaissance painters. He created a series of female nudes, using traditional oil glazing techniques that are now in collections worldwide.

He paints from life in chiaroscuro style, allaprima, with traditional slow-drying oil paints.