Frances Lerner

 

BIO

EXHIBITIONS

  • upcoming August/September 2016

    Salzburg, Austria – Kunstlerhaus, Salzburg, Austria

  • upcoming December 2016

    Bolinas Art Gallery, Bolinas, Ca.

  • March 2016

    Jack Fischer Gallery, two person show

  • December, 2015

    Miami Project (satelite of Art Basel) , Miami, Florida, represented by Jack Fischer Gallery

  • (SOLO upcoming September 2012)

    Jack Fischer Gallery, 49 Geary St., San Francisco, Ca.

  • 2011

    Pro Arts Juried, Oakland, Ca.

  • May 19-22, 2011

    Art MRKT San Francisco, Concourse Exhibition Center, 620 7th Street, SF, Ca.

  • (06-09, 2011)

    William Havu Gallery, Denver 040 Cherokee Street Denver, Co.

  • Dec 2-5, 2010

    Aqua Miami, Jack Fischer Gallery, Miami Beach, Fl.

  • 2009-2010

    “New Images of Man and Woman”, Alphonse Berber Gallery, Berkeley, Ca.

  • 2009

    Eclectix Gallery, El Cerrito, Ca.
  • California Small Works 12 Annual Exhibition, Sonoma Museum of Visual Art,

  • 2000

    Santa Rosa, Ca.
  • Fine Art Gallery, Danville, Ca, Printmaking: Illustrating Diversity of the

  • 2000

    Medium, Danville, Ca.

  • 1996

    Art in Embassies Program - United States Department of State, Vienna, Austria

  • 1992

    871 Fine Arts Gallery, Group show, San Francisco, Ca.

  • 1991 (SOLO)

    871 Fine Arts Gallery, 250 Sutter, San Francisco, Ca

  • 1991 (SOLO)

    Shreve's, San Francisco, Ca.
  • Village Theater Gallery, Danville, CA, "The Printed Page" - New Works by

  • 1990

    Bay Area Printmakers

  • 1987

    San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, Ca.

  • 1986

    University Press Bookstore Gallery, Berkeley, Ca

  • 1984

    Goucher College, Towson, Md.

  • 1983

    B.R. Kornblatt Gallery, (one-woman), Washington, D.C.

  • 1980

    Arts International, Washington, D.C.

Press

  • SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

    Saturday, October 3, 2012 Frances Lerner “From calming to alarming”
Kenneth Baker

  • VISUAL ART SOURCE

    Saturday, October 20, 2012 (Visual Art Source)
Review: “Frances Lerner”
 DeWitt Cheng
    Click here to read the article

  • SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

    Saturday, December 26, 2009
    Review: 'New Images of Man and Woman'
    Kenneth Baker, art critic

  • SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

    “Frances Lerner paints puppets that Puzzle”
    Jesse Hamlin, Special to The Chronicle
    Thursday, January 21, 2010

  • EAST BAY EXPRESS

    “Back to the Future”
    “Berkeley art historian Peter Selz reexamines the human condition”, By DeWitt Cheng, December 16, 2009

COLLECTIONS

  • Berkeley Art Museum
  • University of San Francisco
  • Robert Hass and Brenda Hillman
  • Leo and Dorothy Braudy
  • Bruce Johnson

COMMERCIAL WORK (publications)

  • “Susan Rothenberg’s Horses” – Seneca Review – critical article (2000)
  • Chain Magazine, University of Honolulu, Hawaii (2001)
  • Cover for Firecage, a&bend press, San Francisco (2000)
  • Artwork included in Prosodia - The New College of California Poetics Journal -(1999)
  • Book illustrations for A Cat, Riverhead Books - Div. of Putnam Books, Madison Avenue, NY,NY (publication date: 1995) - author Leonard Michaels
  • Book covers for Wesleyan University/New England Press - Death Tractates
  • (1992), Bright Existence (1993), Loose Sugar (1997)
  • Cover for Ploughshares literary magazine,
  • Covers for The Seneca Review for Hobart and William Smith Colleges
  • The Penumbra Press, fine arts and poetry books
  • 1 'Epervier Press
  • Maryland Arts Council publications

GRANTS

  • Sole artist-in-residence, Salzburg, Austria, August/September 2016
  • Vermont Studio Center 2007 – Full Fellowship
  • Sonoma County Arts Council 2004
  • Napa Valley Arts Council 2003, 2004
  • Maryland Arts Council 1983,84,85
  • Virginia Center for the Creative Arts 1982

EDUCATION

  • Master of Fine Arts, summa cum laude
  • Master of Arts, summa cum laude
  • University of Iowa
  • Concentration: Printmaking
  • Bachelor of Fine Arts,
  • Ohio State University
  • Master of Social Work, cum laude
  • University of Maryland School of Social Work
  • Licensed Clinical Social Worker: State of California

ART INSTRUCTOR

  • 2004

    Santa Rosa Junior College – Extended Education for Adults

  • 2004

    Santa Rosa Junior College, College for Kids

  • 2003,04

    Napa Valley Arts Council – Artist in Schools Program

  • 2002, 03

    Marin Country Day School – Turtle Rock Institute

  • 2002

    Cultural Arts Council Sonoma County – Arts in Education

  • 2001

    Nueva School, Hillborough, California –Create With Computers

  • 1985

    D.C. Commission for the Arts and Humanities

  • 1980 to 1981

    Maryland Center for the Arts - Goucher College

OTHER

  • Speaker at the North Bay Puppetry Guild, June 5, 2011
  • "Art and the Mentally Ill" - committee member -Marin General Hospital representative - organized comprehensive art show of patients’ work –Marin Civic Center 2000
  • Represented by Jack Fischer Gallery, 49 Geary, San Francisco, Ca., jackfischergallery.com