Fran Bull

I want to give expression to very deep intimations about the world of manifest things. This entails a kind of physics, highly theoretical, but eminently experiential. I portray not a shell, for example, but the forces giving rise to that form. I look for the dream of the shell inside the dreamers head...
-- Fran Bull

Fran Bulls art has been shown worldwide for over 25 years. Art critic Alice Thorson wrote in 1993, in a review of Bulls solo show at the Morgan Gallery in Kansas City:

Partial to exploding, amorphous forms, labyrinthine layerings and iridescent colors, Fran Bulls aesthetic overwhelms.
-- Kansas City Star, Nov. 5, 1993

Bulls life was inspired and defined by her childhood study of art at the Newark Museum, Newark New Jersey. She went on to study painting at Bennington College with Paul Feeley. In 1969 Bull married Photo-Realist painter Malcolm Morley. Morley was at the height of his career, and it was during their relationship that Bull learned his methods and approach to painting.

Morley and Bull separated in 1972, and Bull embarked upon a professional life in art. Her early works were influenced by Morley and by the Pop spirit of Photo-Realism. Theywere shown and sold t...

New York University, New York, NY: M.A., Fine Art & Education
Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY: Textile Design
Bennington College, Bennington, VT: B.A.
Private Study/Apprenticeship: Malcolm Morley, New York, NY,