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Francie Hester
Confluence 23 A

2023

About the Item

Confluence 23 B (2023) Acrylic, aluminum leaf, and wax on aluminum panel 50 x 42 inches Hester’s practice is a meditation on both her personal and our collective pasts. Throughout her works, Hester consistently acknowledges the seemingly opposing forces that build our daily lives—creating an atmosphere abounding with both elegy and rejuvenation. The artist’s technique of painting on each substrate—paper, plexiglass and aluminum—goes far beyond conventional brushwork. Through a painstaking and physical process, she applies and removes acrylic paint with the use of sanders, hammers, routers and drills, in a continual process of building, breaking and rebuilding. Surprisingly, even the works on paper are sanded. Surfaces are mottled and textured, scraped and punctured. Layer upon layer of striated, thick colors dance astride more delicate patterned areas, created with collaged bits of metal leaf and complex cross-hatching marks. Yet, strikingly, the eye finds places of rest as colors and patterns conjoin harmoniously, and chaos and control share spaces. Sculpture / Painting / Texture / Sanding / Dripping / Geometric / Linear / Stripes / Circles / Shape / Round / Patterned / Silver / Aluminum / Red / Orange / Yellow / Green / Blue / Black / Metal / Abstract About the Artist: Francie Hester works principally on sculpted aluminum, steel and plexiglass, in a process-based practice that builds pixelated and vibrant pigments in deep layers with patterns of drips, grids and fragmented shapes that are then deconstructed through sanding, scraping, drilling and cutting to reveal the finished, textured surfaces. Her work has been exhibited internationally in Jordan, Ulaanbaatar, Ireland, and Costa Rica, and in solo exhibitions with Susan Eley Fine Art in New York City and Hudson, NY, Anton Gallery, Washington, DC, Green Chalk Contemporary, and the Hawthorne Mansion, Monterey, CA. Her commissioned works include sculptures for Memorial Sloan Kettering in New York City, a sculpted aluminum painting for the U.S. headquarters of Airbus, and paintings on 18-foot aluminum surfaces for an atrium in the Chicago Kent College of Law. Her work is represented in numerous private and corporate collections including the World Bank, Capital One, Covington & Burling and the International Monetary Fund. She has received honorary grants from the District of Columbia, from the Arts Council of Montgomery County, MD and from the Maryland State Arts Council. She received her MFA in painting from the University of Maryland, College Park, and a BFA in painting from the University of Michigan. Hester has studios in Kensington, MD and Boulder, CO and is represented by Susan Eley Fine Art in New York City and Hudson, NY.
  • Creator:
    Francie Hester (American)
  • Creation Year:
    2023
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 50 in (127 cm)Width: 42 in (106.68 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    New York, NY
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU16812231982
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