Frank Carfaro

After nearly 25 years of building Desiron, the New York furniture and design company Frank founded, he returned to art full time. Around the same period, after more than three decades of being treated for ADHD, Frank received a diagnosis of bipolar disorder - an experience that fundamentally changed the way he understood himself and the work he wanted to make.

Frank + Hank emerged from that journey - the grounded and ungrounded parts of himself, and the space between who we are and who we can become when we are not entirely ourselves.

Frank's sculpture explores fracture, transformation, repair, and renewal. He works primarily with stone, steel, wood, fire, and metal, using processes that cut, burn, scar, break, join, and rebuild the material. Rather than conceal those marks, he makes them visible.

The scars become part of the work.

That process reflects a simple idea at the center of Frank + Hank: sometimes we are not ourselves. We all carry fractures, imperfections, and experiences that change us. Rather than seeing those places only as damage, Frank is interested in what can happen when they become part of our strength.

That idea is deeply personal, but the work has become increasingly purposeful. Frank wants the sculptures to create openings for conversations around mental and behavioral health - conversations that can reduce stigma, encourage understanding, and ultimately help people find care.

As the work evolves, he's increasingly interested in taking it beyond the traditional gallery environment and into landscapes, architecture, public spaces, and spaces of healing. Frank wants to create work that people encounter unexpectedly - work that changes with its surroundings and invites people to stop, look, question, and perhaps recognize something of themselves within it.

Ultimately, Frank + Hank is about transformation: the belief that what has been broken does not have to be hidden. Our cracks can become our strongest parts.