Fran Forman

** Recent Work **

Stopping the Plane
Phases of the Moon
Missing Books
Long Shadows
Lost Child
Anselm’s Ladder
Landing
Abandoned
Hidden
Deer Isle Morning Visit

Alchemy of Memory

Catch a Shooting Star
Chair
Hiding Girl
Warriors
The Secret Gift
House on a Hill
Woman on a Journey
Man on a Bike
The Rower

Convergence of Birds

Winged Man in a Room
Vermont Spiritism
Red Hat and Raven
A Desert Night
Solitary Bird
Letting Go
Child with a Swan

Defying Gravity

Hovering
Airborne
The Flyer
Boy on a Globe (Rotation of the Earth)
Escape over Siena
Red Umbrella
Sending Aloft
Flight

Imaginary Circus

Flying Boy over Truro’s Pond
Cosmic Aria
Carousel Escape
Mélies’ Dream

Journeys

The Explorer
Boy in a Boat
Desert Dream
Grounded Ship
Hangzhou Moon
The Journey

Midnight Sun

Boys In a Bedroom
Girl With a Stick
White Horse
House by the Fjord
Dressing
Candlelight
White House in Fog
Portals
White Bird
Girl at a Window

Portraits

Man and Woman
Portrait of a Young Man
Two Portraits
Grounded Ship
Polish Girl 1938
Grounded Ship
Butterfly Boy
Girl with a Rainbow
Once Young
Girl with a Bird
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New Work: CADAVRE EXQUIS

In merging photography with painting, portraiture with dreamed landscapes, technologies and generations, my images blur the boundaries between the real and the unreal, re-imagining worlds that, like our own, remain forever a mystery. I invite the viewer to look closely, to engage with me in an imaginative discourse, and to enter into a world of dreams and memory. The visual narratives of my photo collages dissolve the boundaries of time; they connect my fantasies and dreams with the generations that have come before me and attempt to bring them back to life. Perhaps it’s my attempt to stop time.

Fran studied art and sociology at Brandeis University, received an MSW in psychiatric social work, and then an MFA from Boston University in graphic design and photography. She has held a succession of positions in the field of illustration and design: branding, print, and signage for corporate, arts, and retail establishments; CD-roms for books and museum installations; book cover illustrations; animations, multimedia, and web design. Until 2005, she was an Art Director at AOL Time Warner. Between professional life and raising two daughters, Fran continued to create her personal art, combining her illustrative and photographic skills with a passion for surrealism, paradox, illusion, assemblage, the non-human world, and the dislocations of time and place.

Fran is a Resident Scholar at the Women’s Studies Research Center at Brandeis University and a recipient of several grants. She teaches digital collage at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and recently at Brandeis University. Her work has been exhibited widely, both locally and internationally.

Fran’s work is in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Selected Exhibitions and Awards

Mixed Media

Midnight Sun