By Anne Francey
Located in Hudson, NY
Colorful abstract painting with geometric details in bright hues of blue, red, green, and yellow, against a black background
"Instead", painted by Anne Francey in 2017
Mixed media on Masonite
10 x 10 x 2 inches, sides reveal raw wood
Excellent condition, signed verso
Ready to hang
Anne Francey has been working with subject matter inspired by nature for most of her artistic career. Since the pandemic, this focus has become ever more apparent as her new acrylic paintings on paper demonstrate her intuitive process of reinterpreting literal subjects like leaves, flowers, birds, or bugs into vibrant worlds of layered color. She begins by drawing from life but then allows fluctuating colors, traces of the hand, and evidence of the physical medium to be introduced as the composition evolves and finds its final imprint on the surface. The spontaneity of her process welcomes the unknown, she explains: “The things that moved me first…might have become by now just a faint whispering. But I know that a story is being told, even if I don’t understand yet all the words.”
About the artist:
Anne Francey was born in 1956 in Grandson, Switzerland. She attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne (ECBA) from 1976 to 1981, where she received a diploma of Fine Arts in painting. In 1981, she moved to New York where she attended the School of Visual Arts and the graduate program of Fine Arts at Hunter College. She graduated in 1987 with a Master of Fine Arts (MFA).
EDUCATION
1983-1987 Hunter College: Master of Fine Arts, New York
EXHIBITIONS (Most recent)
2021 Le Comptoir des Motifs, Artefactory, Geneva, Switzerland, fabric design, group show
2018 Eric Laffer Gallery, Upstate Invitational, 3 person show, Schuylerville, NY
The Arts Center of the Capital Region, Configurations, one person show, Troy, NY
Carrie Haddad gallery, Ebb and Flow, Hudson, NY
Saratoga Arts, Then and Now, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
2017 Byrdcliffe Kleinert/James Center, The Ritual of Construction, group show, Woodstock, NY
Carrie Haddad gallery, Summer, group show
Thompson Giroux gallery, En Masse, group show
Eric Laffer gallery, Winter Show, Schuylerville, NY
2016 Saratoga Arts, 30th Anniversary Invitational, Saratoga Springs, NY
Carrie Haddad Gallery, Summer Color, Hudson, NY
Laffer Gallery, 5th Annual Juried Group Show, Schuylerville, NY
2015 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Paper, group show, Hudson, NY
2014 Luminarté, Contemporary Islamic Art, group show, Dallas, TX
Spring Street Gallery, Where are you from? 3 persons show, Saratoga Spgs, NY
Albany Institute of History and Art, Mohawk Hudson Regional, group show NY
Albany International Airport, Natural Gestures, 3 persons show Albany, NY
Laffer Gallery, Winter show, Schuylerville, NY
COMMUNITY MURALS, GRANTS, RESIDENCIES, SYMPOSIUMS,
2021 Community Mural United Nations International school, NY “The Year that Zoomed by”
2020 Fulbright U.S. Scholar award 2020-2021 (travel postponed to 2021-2022)
2019 1001 Hands (“1001 Mains”) Concept, design and direction of a 150 sqft community ceramic mural with 600 participants, Ibn Rachiq Art Center,Tunis, Tunisia. Funded through the US Embassy and the Swiss Embassy in Tunis.
Colors of the City, Wall Ceramic and Architecture in Tunis, International symposium, Tunis/Tunisia
1997- 2018 Artist in residence at various schools for the creation of community murals
2018 Bir-el Bey...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
MaterialsMasonite, Mixed Media
