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Carlene
Francis
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My canvas is a field of color
continuously in play from edge to
edge rather than organized in terms
of figure/ground relationships.
I alternate between works grounded
in landscape structure and works
that explore non-objective line,
shape and color. The work reflects
the juxtaposition of complexities
with simplicities, thus harmonizing
opposites. In viewing
non-objective work, the mind needs
to identify or create relationships
with form because the stillness, or
no movement of thought, makes us
uncomfortable. One might
conceptualize non-objective work as
meditation..... a peaceful place to
rest the mind. We need not
identify with form on the two
dimensional surface of the canvas.
Education
2000-2004 Independent Study
with James Valone,
MFA, Retired Professor of Art, Rocky
Mt.
College Art and Design
Chairman of Art Dept. Trinity
University,
San Antonio TX,
Chairman of Art Dept, Southwest
University,
Georgetown TX
2001-2001 Independent
Study with Ernest J. Velardi,
MFA, (Emeritus)
Professor of Art, California State
University, Springmaid Beach, SC
1999-2003 Independent Study
with Janette Len-
Chin Lenschow, BS, MS, MFA,
Retired Professor of Art,
University of
Colorado, Boulder, CO
1993-1998 SBFA- Painting and
Drawing, Rocky
Mountain College of Art & Design,
Department Chairman Clark Richert,
Denver, CO
1972-1973 Major- Commercial
Art, Kendall College
of Art & Design, Grand Rapids, MI
1970-1972 Major- Art Education,
Schoolcraft
College, Livonia, MI
solo exhibits
2006 Remmi Fine Art,
Elements of Simplicity,
Denver, CO
2001 Dovecote Women’s
Center, Dualities,
Lakewood, CO
1998 Le Stelle Gallery,
Manscapes, Denver, CO
1997 Le Stelle Gallery,
Journey in Color,
Denver, CO
group exhibits
2006
Remmi Fine Art,
2006 Group Exhibit,
Denver,
CO
2005 825 Art
Gallery, Going Deeper,
Two
Women Exhibit, Denver, CO.
Remmi Fine
Art,
Gallery Group Show,
Denver, CO.
Neo Art
Gallery, Group Exhibit, Denver
CO
2004 12th
Street
Art Gallery,
La Femme,
Juried Group Exhibit, Golden,
CO
Neo Art
Gallery,
City Lives,
Juried Group
Exhibit, Denver, CO
The Lincoln
Center,
NCAA 13th National
Art
Exhibition,
National Juried
Group Exhibit, Fort
Collins, CO
Susan K.
Arndt Gallery,
Red Rocks
Community College,
Mountain Valley
Women
Artists,
Group Exhibit,
Lakewood, CO
Evergreen
Arts Center,
Contemporary
Art Exhibition,
Juried Group
Exhibit,
Evergreen, CO
Neo Art
Gallery,
Insight,
Prisma4 Group
Exhibit, Denver, CO
Square Deal
Gallery,
Colorado Artists,
Group Exhibit, Denver, CO
RL Foster
Gallery,
Group Exhibit, Denver,
CO
2003 Curtis Art &
Humanities Center,
20th
Annual Juried All
Colorado Art
Show,
Greenwood Village, CO
R.L. Foster
Gallery,
Valone Circle,
Group
Show, Denver, CO
Gallery 825,
Images Along the Path,
Three Women Show, Denver CO
12th
Street Art Gallery,
Reflections of
Peace Exhibit,
Juried Group Exhibit,
Golden, CO
2002 Museum of
Contemporary Art, Rocky
Mountain Biennial 2002,
Regional
Juried Exhibit, Fort Collins, CO
Business
of Art Center, Seeds of
Change, Juried Exhibit,
Manitou Springs, CO
Fremont Center for
the Arts, 3rd
Annual
Artful Women Exhibit,
Juried Exhibit,
Canon
City, CO
Hospice of
Denver, The Mask Project,
Invitational Exhibit, Denver, CO
2001
Square Deal
Gallery, Prisma 4,
Denver, CO
Fourth
Story Gallery, Prisma 4,
Denver, CO
Residence
Off Broadway Gallery
and Studios,
Visual Overload
Invitational Exhibit,
Lakewood, CO
Dovecote
Women’s Center, Prisma 4,
Littleton, CO
2000
Heritage Fine
Art Guild, 9th
Annual this
is Colorado, Juried
Exhibit, Denver, CO,
Tri-Lakes Center for
the Arts, 3rd
Annual
Fall Festival of the Arts
Juried
Exhibit, Palmer Lake,
CO
Artist of Colorado,
5th Juried Exhibition,
Denver, CO
Canyon Road Contemporary Gallery
of
Art,
National Juried
Landscape
Invitational,
Santa Fe, NM
Curtis
Arts & Humanities Center, 17th
Annual Juried All Colorado
Art Show,
Greenwood Village, CO
Stanton
Gallery, Prisma 4, Littleton, CO
1999 Curtis Arts &
Humanities Center, 16th
Annual Juried All Colorado
Art Show,
Greenwood CO
Core Gallery,
Supporting Members Juried
Show,
Denver, CO
Core
Gallery, Annual Juried Group
Show,
Denver, CO
998
Curtis Art &
Humanities Center, 15th
Annual Juried All Colorado Art
Show, Greenwood Village, CO
Phillip J. Steele Gallery,
Juried Exhibit,
Timeless
Time, Denver, CO
1997 The Institute
for Experimental Studies,
Integration of Space,
Mural/Sculpture, Denver,
CO
Le Stelle Gallery,
Anniversary Show,
Littleton, CO
1996
Natural Impact
Gallery, Artist’s of
Colorado,
Denver, CO
Natural
Impact Gallery,
Symbolism,
Denver, CO
Current representation
Art Exchange, Hot Springs,
AR
Neo Art,
Denver, CO
RL Foster Gallery,
Denver, CO
Remmi Fine Art Gallery,
Denver, CO
awards and recognition
2006 Hospice Mask
Project 2006, designed
and
painted mask for Dolly
Parton
and
Wynonna Judd, Personal
painted mask
was chosen as the
2006 mask
collectors plate,
Denver, CO
2004 First Place
Award,
Evergreen Arts
Center,
Contemporary Art
Exhibition,
Juried Exhibit by Patty Ortiz,
Director of programming for
MOCA
Denver,
Evergreen, CO
Hospice
Mask Project 2004, Chosen to
designed mask for
Country Western
Singer Kenny Chesney, Denver,
CO
2002 Award of Merit,
Fremont Center for the
Arts, 3rd
Annual Artful Women
Exhibit,
Juried Exhibit, Canon City, CO
2000 Award of
Excellence, Canyon Road
Contemporary Art Gallery,
National
Juried Landscape Invitational,
Santa
Fe, NM
1998
Individual
Certificate of Merit,
Collaboration Mural Project for
the
City and County of
Denver awarded by
Mayor Wellington
Webb.
First Place Award,
Phillip J. Steele
Gallery, Juried
Exhibit, CO
People’s Choice Award,
Phillip J. Steele
Gallery, Juried
Exhibit, CO
1995
Colorado
Undergraduate Art Essay
Award,
Rocky Mountain College
of Art
& Design, Denver, Co
1997-2000 Published Mural-
Integration of Space
published in college catalog and
website of The Rocky Mountain
College
of Art & Design. |
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