Fran’s photo-paintings are in the permanent collections of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, the Museum of Fine Art Houston, and many others.
Some of Fran’s recent solo exhibitions were at Fox Talbot Museum, England, The Massachusetts State House , The Griffin Museum of Photography, AfterImage Gallery (Dallas), the University of North Dakota, Galeria Photo/Graphica (Mexico), the Pucker Gallery (Boston, and Sohn Fine Art Gallery (Lenox). Her work has been featured in the British Journal of Photography, L'oeil de la Photographie, AllAboutPhoto, BETA Photography, and many other journals and zines.
She has won numerous significant awards, grants and Artist Residencies. She was a Top 50 Critical Mass winner in 2022.
Fran has two highly acclaimed monographs: The Rest Between Two Notes (2020) and Escape Artist (2014).
She often is asked to teach, juror, & curate exhibitions.
Fran worked as a clinical therapist before receiving her MFA. With her constructed images, she suggests the melancholic shadows lying beneath the illusory sunny narrative of American life, particularly in the current atmosphere of anxiety and repression.
