Frances Lerner

 

BIO

EDUCATION

  • University of Iowa

    Master of Fine Arts, summa cum laude
    Master of Arts, summa cum laude
    Concentration : Printmaking

  • Ohio State University

    Bachelor of Fine Arts

  • University of Maryland School of Social Work

    Master of Social Work, cum laude
    Licensed Clinical Social Worker: State of California

EXHIBITIONS (selected)

  • Dec 2-5, 2010

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

  • 2011

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

  • 2011

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

GROUP

  • 2009-2010

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

  • 2009

    Eclectix Gallery, El Cerrito, Ca.

  • 2000

    California Small Works 12 Annual Exhibition, Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, Santa Rosa, Ca.

  • 2000

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

  • 1990

    Village Theater Gallery, Danville, CA, "The Printed Page" - New Works by 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.

RECENT PRESS:

%strong %em SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

Saturday, December 26, 2009

Review: 'New Images of Man and Woman'

Kenneth Baker, art critic


%strong %em 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:


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



ART INSTRUCTOR :


  • 2004:

    • Santa Rosa Junior College – Extended Education for Adults
    • 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 Educati

  • 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