Bidspirit auction | FRANK FLEMING, ”PORCELAIN HEART”

FRANK FLEMING, ”PORCELAIN HEART” - ”Porcelain Heart”, an original porcelain sculpture by listed artist, Frank Fleming. This piece was purchased directly from Fleming's studio along with the other pieces being offered in this auction. The heart is signed by the artist as shown in the photos, and dated May 9th, 1992. This porcelain heart sculpture by Frank Fleming measures, 6.5'' H x 7.5'' W x 2.75'' D. Frank Fleming was born on a farm in Alabama in 1940. He suffered from a severe speech impediment, which caused him to stop talking in school in the first grade, and he did not speak in public for the next eleven years. More comfortable in the outdoors, and because words often failed him, he came to express himself in images. Fleming found his niche at Florence State College, where he learned how to work with clay from a maid who cleaned the classrooms. The fantastic and playful quality in Fleming’s work is a product of his childhood and his involvement in the 1970s funk art movement in California.