Audrey Francis
Audrey Francis
Embedded Files
Tasty, 2020
Oil on canvas
16 x 20 inches framed
$950
"I knew it was going to get bad in January; the news just had a more ominous tone than usual. Slowly, I started to stock up on stuff, as if every time I went out I was prepping for a major snowstorm. By March I had more food, medicine, garden seeds, and (yes) toilet paper in the house than I have ever had before. Isolation proved to be maddening, but it also provided an opportunity to be industrious in our domesticity. We ALL need a happy place in our lockdowns. For many cooking, and especially baking, became a refuge. Lucky for me I bought yeast."
Audrey Francis began her artistic career with fine art studies at Syracuse University (BFA) followed by a residency at the Nantucket Island School of Design and the Arts, Massachusetts. She holds an MFA from SUNY New Paltz. Francis has taught painting at SUNY, New Paltz and design at Dutchess Community College. Formally trained as an illustrator, the artist’s established practice includes oil painting, collage, sculpture, and textile art. In her evocative paintings and mixed media works, Francis uses a sequence of motifs seemingly taken from deeply personal and mysterious iconography and pairs these with flat planes of color and pattern. She is the recipient of many awards and honors, including the Research and Creative Projects Award, SUNY, 2006, The Joan Mitchell Award Nomination, 2006 and the Barrett Art Center Award, Poughkeepsie, New York, 2001. She has participated in over fifty exhibitions and her work may be found in private and corporate collections worldwide, including the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, New York.
Page updated
Report abuse