Frances Mann-Goodman

I approach a canvas with a desire to fuse color with dimension through a complex of textures -- free from intention, tradition, and norms. Layering devices burn a life force into even the smallest structures. Hues, light, dark, bold, pale, bond and speak their own language. Strokes, obscure, defined, personify sameness and difference and how the two natures work in concert. Applications invite stories, interpretations. My mission is to draw viewers deep into my world and ignite their imagination.

Fran’s paintings have been exhibited in over forty galleries in New Jersey, the Chelsea district of Manhattan and Southern Florida. Several are in private collection in New York, Florida, Toronto, and Hollywood, California. Often a keynote speaker for various Florida organizations, Fran's collective projects have been featured in various Florida media and on YouTube.

Fran is a Signature artist of the Boca Art Museum, the Art Education Fund Chair of the Delray Art League, the exhibition coordinator of the National Association of Women Artists for the Florida chapter and the co-chair of the Art Program for the Boca Raton Branch of the National League of American Pen Women. A former instructor at Old School Square’s Creative Art School i...

Chouinard Art Institute (now Cal Arts) Ca.
Art Students League, NY