Sherron Francis

Sherron Francis, (b. October 28, 1940) is an American abstract painter. She is best known for paintings that relate to Lyrical Abstraction, Color field painting, and abstract expressionism.
==Early life and education==
Francis was born in Downers Grove, Illinois, and currently resides in the North ForkFelicia Lalomia, "The art of the tag sale hunt: Local shop owners carved out their own niches," April 20, 2020, https://northforker.com/2020/04/the-art-of-the-tag-sale-hunt-local-shop-owners-carved-out-their-own-niches/ of Long Island. A graduate of the Kansas City Art Institute, class of 1963, where she studied alongside Ronnie Landfield and Dan Christensen, Sherron Francis moved to New York City from the Midwest in 1968 after receiving her MFA from Indiana UniversityExhibition Catalogue, Sherron Francis: A Retrospective, Lincoln Glenn, 2022, written by Lisa N. Peters, Ph.D., page 2, https://issuu.com/lincolnglenngallery/docs/lg_-_sherron_francis_digital_catalog_single_page_c . Francis was represented by several influential galleries including the Andre Emmerich Gallery, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, and various others throughout the United States.
==Career==
She first resided at 736 Broadway in Greenwich Village, but soon relocated, along with Dan Christensen, to 16 Waverly PlaceExhibition Catalogue, Sherron Francis: A Retrospective, Lincoln Glenn, 2022, written by Lisa N. Peters, Ph.D., https://issuu.com/lincolnglenngallery/docs/lg_-_sherron_francis_digital_catalog_single_page_c. Many other artists resided in the connecting buildings at 12, 14, and 16 Waverly Place, including Larry Zox, Jim Anderson, Paula DeLuccia, Mernet Larsen, and Ree Mortonhttps://vparchive.gvshp.org/_gvshp/pdf/Poons_PaulaGVHSPOralHistory_FINAL.pdf. Among Francis’s neighborhood friends were Larry Poons, Peter Reginato, and Michael Steiner. Art critic Clement Greenberg would also spend time at the adjoining buildings on Waverly and collected one of Francis's paintings. Her practice incorporated using squeegees on top of stained acrylic paint canvases, using mixed media such as commercial insulation gravel, and spray guns.
In 1971, Christensen introduced her to André Emmerich, in whose gallery he had begun showing two years earlierExhibition Catalogue, Sherron Francis: A Retrospective, Lincoln Glenn, 2022, written by Lisa N. Peters, Ph.D., page 2, https://issuu.com/lincolnglenngallery/docs/lg_-_sherron_francis_digital_catalog_single_page_c. In January 1973, Emmerich held a solo exhibition of Francis’s work and the exhibition 
was reviewed in the New York Times by Peter Schjeldahl Peter Schjeldahl, “Abstract Painting—The Crisis of Success,” New York Times, February 4, 1973, 127.. Francis was also featured in the Whitney Biennial, held January–March 1973. In the following years in the 1970s and 1980s, she had solo exhibitions at Tibor de NagyAnn Bruce Stoddard, Margit Rowell, Norma Broude, Ann Stoddard, Alice Baber, Alison Hilton, Jacqueline Skiles, et al. “Women Artists News.” Women Artists News 5, no. 9 (March 1, 1980). https://jstor.org/stable/community.28046812., Bell Gallery (Brown University), Douglas Drake Gallery, and Watson/de Nagy Company.
Francis taught art at the Ridgewood School of Art and Design (New Jersey)Oral History Interview: Paula DeLuccia Poons, Conducted by Sarah Dziedzic, September 27, 2017, https://vparchive.gvshp.org/_gvshp/pdf/Poons_PaulaGVHSPOralHistory_FINAL.pdf, from 1972 to 1985 
and at Cooper Union from 1978 to 1985. In 2000, when Francis’s landlord sold the Waverly Place artist-loft buildings to New York University, she moved permanently to Long Island’s North ForkExhibition Catalogue, Sherron Francis: A Retrospective, Lincoln Glenn, 2022, written by Lisa N. Peters, Ph.D., page 34, https://issuu.com/lincolnglenngallery/docs/lg_-_sherron_francis_digital_catalog_single_page_c.
==Collections==
Francis has work in the permanent collections of the following:
* Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
* Denver Art Musuem
* Portland Art Museum, Oregon
* Everson Museum, Syracuse
* Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
* Museum of Southern Texas, Corpus Christi
* Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo
Category:1940 births
Category:People from Downers Grove, Illinois
Category:American people
Category:Abstract painters