{"id":9071,"date":"2019-04-30T18:17:41","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T22:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=9071"},"modified":"2019-05-01T15:11:09","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T19:11:09","slug":"linda-francis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/linda-francis\/","title":{"rendered":"Linda Francis"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6267\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-9071-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/lindafrancis2.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/lindafrancis2.mp3\">https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/lindafrancis2.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9080 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Linda-Francis-2Nancy-leVine-3-copy-200x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Linda-Francis-2Nancy-leVine-3-copy-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Linda-Francis-2Nancy-leVine-3-copy-768x1152.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Linda-Francis-2Nancy-leVine-3-copy-682x1024.jpeg 682w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Linda-Francis-2Nancy-leVine-3-copy-696x1044.jpeg 696w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Linda-Francis-2Nancy-leVine-3-copy-280x420.jpeg 280w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Linda-Francis-2Nancy-leVine-3-copy.jpeg 853w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>I studied painting with Tony Smith at Hunter College but started out studying biochemistry and physics. I really thought of these fields as philosophy: as an illumination of limits and the backdrop for a discussion of humanity&#8217;s striving to overcome them. This is not meant to describe an interest in myth, be it social or political, but rather an involvement in the elements of thought and the operations that give rise to the structure of understanding.<\/p>\n<p>I have exhibited nationally and internationally, and have had many solo exhibitions: Nicholas Davies Gallery, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Hal Bromm Gallery, Minus Space Gallery, University of Alabama College of Arts and Sciences, and others in NY and abroad.\u00a0 A recent exhibition at the J.P.Najar Foundation in Dubai resulted in the purchase of a large work. Likewise a painting shown at the American Academy of Arts and Letters in NYC resulted in a purchase award. Some group exhibitions have been in the Leubsdorf Art Gallery\/ Hunter College, Sydney Non Objective\/ Australia, Stavanger Kunstmuseum\/ Norway, Non- Objectif Sud\/ France, American Drawing in the Louisana Museum in Denmark, Stadtishe Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Germany, the MIT List Center in Boston. This year there have been drawings in \u2018Flat Out\u201d at Mana Contemporary, Jersey City and \u201cStrange Attractors\u201d at Seton Hall\u2019s Walsh Gallery in NJ. I have received grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York State Council on the Arts (CAPS). The work has been written about in Art Forum, Art in America, The NYTimes, The Brooklyn Rail, ArtSlant and others.Yve Alain Bois has written the catalog essay, \u201cAtoms\u201d, for the exhibition \u201cLinda Francis, Drawings\u201d at Wm Patterson University in 1996.<\/p>\n<p>The two books I mentioned during our interview were : \u201c The Book of Disquiet\u201d by Fernando Pessoa, and My Struggle\u201d by Karl Ove Knausguaard.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9077\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9077\" style=\"width: 645px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9077 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Lfrancis_01.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"645\" height=\"644\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Lfrancis_01.jpeg 645w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Lfrancis_01-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Lfrancis_01-421x420.jpeg 421w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9077\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Neutron Star, 2009, Oil on Wood panel, 72\u201dx72&#8243;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9078\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9078\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9078 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Linda-Francis-We-Can-Build-You-2013-Oil-on-wooden-panel-38-x-95-inches-LF12-1024x592.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Linda-Francis-We-Can-Build-You-2013-Oil-on-wooden-panel-38-x-95-inches-LF12-1024x592.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Linda-Francis-We-Can-Build-You-2013-Oil-on-wooden-panel-38-x-95-inches-LF12-300x173.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Linda-Francis-We-Can-Build-You-2013-Oil-on-wooden-panel-38-x-95-inches-LF12-768x444.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Linda-Francis-We-Can-Build-You-2013-Oil-on-wooden-panel-38-x-95-inches-LF12-696x402.jpeg 696w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Linda-Francis-We-Can-Build-You-2013-Oil-on-wooden-panel-38-x-95-inches-LF12-1068x617.jpeg 1068w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Linda-Francis-We-Can-Build-You-2013-Oil-on-wooden-panel-38-x-95-inches-LF12-726x420.jpeg 726w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Linda-Francis-We-Can-Build-You-2013-Oil-on-wooden-panel-38-x-95-inches-LF12.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9078\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cWe Can Build You\u201d, 2013, oil on wood, 40\u201dx90\u201d.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9079\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9079\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9079 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/gal3-1-716x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"915\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/gal3-1-716x1024.jpeg 716w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/gal3-1-210x300.jpeg 210w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/gal3-1-768x1098.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/gal3-1-696x995.jpeg 696w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/gal3-1-294x420.jpeg 294w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/gal3-1.jpeg 895w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9079\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Homage to Messier\u201d, 1991, 40\u201dx32\u201d, Chalk and eraser on paper.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/lindafrancis2.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing listI studied painting with Tony Smith at Hunter College but started out studying biochemistry and physics. I really thought of these fields as philosophy: as an illumination of limits and the backdrop for a discussion of humanity&#8217;s striving to overcome [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9071"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9104,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9071\/revisions\/9104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}