Artist Frank Minuto’s own little planet
Artist Frank Minuto in his studio at Angels Gate, San Pedro. The painting on the right has part of the title, "Serve Man" visible. It references the Twilight Zone episode "To Serve Man." Fans will remember the concluding line is, "It's a cookbook." As you enter the Southwest terminal at LAX this summer you’ll be greeted by a throng of giant whirring, buzzing robots. Don’t worry; they’re friendly. Their lights flash, “Happy Landings!” “Love the shoes!” and other cordial messages. Anyway, they’re only made of paint — 23 paintings and drawings — the largest measuring eight by six feet. The wizard behind the canvases is L.A. artist Frank Minuto, a shaggy-bearded bear of a man in shorts, shades and a multicolored hand-knit cap who looks like Santa Claus on a summer cruise. Minuto was born in the wrong time and place: Casper, Wyoming, in 1947. But his art teleports him to Paris in the 1920s, ancient Egypt and the Forbidden Planet of the 1950s. Frank was a bit in awe of his father, a World War II submariner hero who had regularly cut high school to go hunting and fishing but passed finals by cramming the night before. Frank describes him as a “John Wayne type” skilled in the manly arts…
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