Wonder and Limitation – with Frances McCormack
Channel: Analytical Psychology Club of San Francisco APC-SF
Date: 2021-02-28

Wonder and Limitation
Frances McCormack
The Analytical Psychology Club of San Francisco
January 10, 2021

Paintings are products of the imagination whose language is feeling and form.
This talk will center on one dynamic that runs through many of my paintings: limitation.
It is a simple idea but one that I find rich with possibilities and personally resonant: that restriction or limitation, initially rejected, has an absolutely essential and valuable shaping function in art and in life.  Although my work references the natural world, this territory is filtered through the lens of containment, designed to expose the rhythms of constriction and release. 

Frances McCormack was born in Boston and received her MFA from the University of California at Berkeley. She is Professor Emerita at the San Francisco Art Institute and was the first recipient of the first SFAI faculty residency at the American Academy in Rome. In 2010 she curated “Silence, Exile and Cunning” for the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art and collaborated with the composer Kurt Rohde and writer Sue Moon, creating the video for the performances of “Artifacts” in 2012 and 2016. McCormack is represented by the R B Stevenson Gallery in La Jolla CA.