Frances Barth
Author, Illustrator | North Bergen, NJ |
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Frances Barth was born in the Bronx, New York, and studied painting and art history at Hunter College, CUNY. She has exhibited her paintings widely in both solo and group exhibitions since the late 1960’s, and her work is represented in numerous public, corporate and private collections. For more information see: http://www.francesbarth.co.... more
Frances Barth was born in the Bronx, New York, and studied painting and art history at Hunter College, CUNY. She has exhibited her paintings widely in both solo and group exhibitions since the late 1960’s, and her work is represented in numerous public, corporate and private collections. For more information see: http://www.francesbarth.com
Early in her career, Frances also performed with Yvonne Rainer and Joan Jonas in New York City in live performance and video/film.
Her awards include National Endowment for the Arts grants in 1974 and 1982, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1977, the Joan Mitchell Foundation grant in 1995, two American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase awards in ’99 and ’04 and the Anonymous Was a Woman grant in 2006.
For the past ten plus years she has also been working with animation and video. “End of the Day, End of the Day” was her first completed animation/video with dialogue (TRT:09:34) shown as part of the Atlanta Festival of the Moving Image and in New York. She has just finished a new animation with multiple characters and music called "Jonnie in the Lake," (TRT:09:12) which was shown at the NY Short Film Festival where it won Best Animated Short, and the Sunrise Film Festival in Nova Scotia. Previously she had completed the video portrait of the painter Regina Bogat, which was shown at The Marfa International Film Festival in 2014.
Ginger Smith and Billy Gee started out as an installation of 32 large panels printed on vinyl and just last week was released on Amazon and Barnes and Noble as a 72 page color book.
She is Director Emeritus of the Mt.Royal School of Art, Maryland Institute