The December 2023 Members Meeting will be on zoom. The zoom link will be sent to members the day of the meeting. The meeting will feature speaker Fran Forman.
Fran Forman's work is in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (NASM, Washington, DC), the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Grace Museum, Abilene, The Sunnhordland Museum, Norway, the Conner Collection at The University of Texas, and the North Down Museum, Northern Ireland.
In 2022, she was awarded Top 50 from the prestigious Photo Lucida's Critical Mass.Fran’s latest book, The Rest Between Two Notes: Selected Work , was published by Unicorn in 2020 and has won an International Photo Award and been selected as a best photo-book for 2020 by Elizabeth Avedon and What Will You Remember. Fran’s book also was the sole feature in the photography magazine, Dek Unu, and it was featured in The British Journal of Photography, 1854 Media, L’Oeil de la Photographie, and others.
Escape Artist: The Art of Fran Forman, was published by Schiffer Books in 2014 and has also won several prizes including a Best Photo-Book by Elizabeth Avedon. Fran has mounted many solo exhibitions, including The Henry Fox Talbot Museum, Lacock Abbey, England; BBA Gallery (Berlin); The Massachusetts State House and The Griffin Museum of Photography; AfterImage Gallery (Dallas); the University of North Dakota; Galeria Photo/Graphica (Mexico); Sohn Fine Art; OpenShutter (Dorango); and the Pucker Gallery (Boston), as well as numerous group shows. She has been featured in many magazines and publications as well as the recepient of multiple awards and prizes.
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Fran studied art and sociology as an undergraduate at Brandeis University. She then received an MSW, working as a therapist for several years with heroin addicts and their families. Returning to her passion for making art, she began creating staged photographs. She earned an MFA from Boston University in graphic design, a field in which psychology melds with art. She spent most of her grad school years experimenting in the darkroom.
In the early ‘90s, Fran began incorporating photography and digital collage into her design work. She designed several visually rich CD-roms and later became an art director at AOL-Time Warner. There, she designed the preeminent web site devoted to African American culture. Between professional life and raising her two daughters, Fran continued to create her personal art, combining her illustrative and photographic skills with her fascination with the human psyche. She recently retired from the Women’s Studies Research Center at Brandeis University where she was a Resident Scholar for 16 years. She teaches advanced workshops nationally and abroad. She is also a recipient of many honors and grants and has been a Resident Artist at Holsnoy Kloster, Norway, Millay Arts, The Studios of Key West, and the Vermont Studio Center. She is often to ask to curate and jury photo competitions, both nationally and internationally.
She is represented by Pucker Gallery (Boston), Afterimage Gallery (Dallas), Susan Spiritus Gallery (Newport Beach, CA), Sohn Fine Art Gallery, and Galeria Photo/Graphica (San Miguel de Allende, Mexico). She resides in New England.
