“I approach a canvas with a desire to fuse color with texture, free of intention, tradition and norms. I count on layering properties to burn a life force into even the smallest structures. My strokes, some obscure, some defined, personify difference and sameness and how the two natures work in concert with one another"
Fran is a member of the National Association of Women Artists, the National League of American Pen Women where she is the cochair of the art program for the Florida branch. Fran is also a member of the Arts Student League, ArtServe, Broward Art Guild and a Signature Artist of the Boca Raton Museum of Art. In addition, she is the Arts Education Fund Chair of the Delray Art League.
Fran received her formal training at Chouinard Art Institute (now CAL ARTS) where she worked in the style of representational art. As a student in the ‘60s, Fran was chosen to exhibit her paintings heavily texturized with spackeling wall paste in galleries and furniture showrooms in LA. She had also received representation at a gallery in NJ.
After college, due to a childhood trauma with her face, Fran applied her artistic skill to the makeup field where she built a thirty-year career inspiring women to see the “art” in their faces. Her unique aesthetic approach, coupled with her workshops, seminars, support groups, as well as widespread media exposure, earned her national and international recognition. She was featured on talk shows, women's magazines and other print media including The New York Times. Fran did not paint during those years. Instead, she penned a memoir and two screenplays centered around her life story.
In 2013, Fran returned to painting after a bout with Lyme disease left her with arthritic fingers and the difficulty to continue writing. She began working in the style of Abstract Expressionism, preferring to create mood and emotion over defined images, infusing her paintings with pastes, sand, glosses, paper towels, and acrylic skins.
Since then, Fran’s paintings have been exhibited in over thirty galleries in New Jersey, the Chelsea district of Manhattan and Southern Florida, and are in private collection in New York, Florida, Toronto, and Hollywood, Ca.
Fran enjoys painting and exhibiting but her passion is teaching. She created, “NOT YOUR ORDINARY PAINTING CLASS,” which she has taught in New Jersey and Florida. Her curriculum blends the lifestyles and artistic styles of famous Abstract Expressionists with unique artistic techniques and applications.
Fran has been a keynote speaker for several Florida organizations including the Institute for Learning In Retirement. She runs workshops and demonstrations in her craft across Florida. Fran’s paintings were recently featured in Art Guide Magazine where she won additional representation. Her collective projects have been showcased in various Florida media.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 National League of American Pen Women Annual Juried Show -- Second Place
2020 131st Anniversary Online Exhibit, National Association of Women Artists
2020 New Member Exhibition, (online), National Association of Women Artists
2020 Broward Art Guild Gallery Fort Lauderdale, Fl
2019 Highland Beach Library, Highland Beach FL
2019 6" x 6" Exhibit Cornell Museum, Delray Beach, FL
2018 Heart of Delray, Delray Beach, FL.
2018 Art Bravo, Art Serve, Fort Lauderdale, FL
2018 Signature Members Exhibit, Artist Guild Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
2017 Signature Members Exhibit, Artist Guild Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
2017 Signature Members Exhibit, Artist Guild Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
2017 Signature Members Exhibit, Artist Guild Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
2017 Signature Members Exhibit, Artist Guild Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
2017 6" x 6" Exhibit, Cornell Museum, Delray Beach, FL
2017 Artists Guild Gallery FAU Living Room Theater, Boca Raton, FL
2017 Artists Guild Gallery, Boca Raton Regional High School, Boca Raton, FL
2017 Delray Art League, Arts Garage, Delray Beach, FL
2016 Signature Members Exhibit, Artists Guild Gallery, Delray Beach, FL
2016 Still Life Exhibit, Chamber of Commerce, Delray Beach, FL
2016 Signature Members Exhibit, Artists' Guild Gallery, Delray Beach, FL
2016 Art Walk Event, Cornell Museum, Delray Beach, FL
2016 Art Walk Gallery Exhibit, Cornell Museum, Delray Beach, FL
2016 Gallery Exhibit, Arts Garage, Delray Beach, FL
2016 Autumn Rising, Milagro Center, Delray Beach, FL
2016 Gallery Exhibit, Delray Beach City Hall, Delray Beach, FL
2015 Exposure, Ceres Gallery, New York, NY
2015 Humana Arcana, Gallery d'Arte, New York, NY
2015 Five Senses +1, Elga Wimmer Gallery, New York, NY
2015 Summer, The Center for Contemporary Art, Bedminster Township, NJ
2015 Gallery Exhibit, MPAC Mayo Performing Arts Center, Morristown, NJ
2014 Gallery Exhibit, Linda Grandis Blatt Gallery, Morristown, NJ
2014 Art Student's League, Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, New York, NY
2013 Winter Wonderland, Morris County Art Association, Morristown, NJ