Mechanical Botanical #11                                                           Flower of Notre Dame                  Mechanical Botanical #10
  limited edition, giclee, 20 x 24"                                                   digital combine, 30 x 20"            digital combine, 20 x 24"







                               
  Mechanical Botanical #3                                                          Emergence                                    Cosmic Bouquet
  digital combine, 20 x 24"                                                          digital combine, 30 x 20"              digital combine, 20 x 24"








                               
  Cosmic Gala                                                                           Mechanical Botanical #8                    Four Poppies
  digital combine, 20 x 24"                                                        digital combine, 24 x 20"                   acrylic, dimensional paint on canvas, 24 x 36"







                                        
                                        Landscape #1









                                                               
                       Midnight Garden #1                                                                                     Midnight Garden #2
                       acrylic, dimensional acrylic, dye on canvas, 11 x 17"                              acrylic, dimensional acrylic, dye on canvas, 11 x 17" 








                                                
   Solar Bouquet                                                Midnight Botanical # 2                   Midnight Botanical #1                    Midnight Garland
   acrylic, dye on canvas, 41 x 42"                  acrylic, dye, dimensional paint on canvas, 20 x 16" each                   acrylic & ink on canvas, 42 x 41"



                                                                                                         


 

Biography

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2006    Troy Fine Art, Stamford, CT. “Lost and Found Series”
2001    Stamford Center for the Arts, Rich Forum, “ON FIRE”
1995    Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, Arizona. “Plumes”. Russell Senate Rotunda, Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C. sponsored by Senator Joseph Lieberman Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York City, SIZZLES
1994    Museum of Art,Fort Lauderdale, Florida, “Plumes, Kuwaiti Oil Field Fires
1991    PMW Gallery, Stamford, CT. “Fire Works”
1989    Tiffany and Company’s Windows, Fifth Avenue, NY, “Dimensional Drawings” Barbara Braathen Gallery, New York “ “New Work”

Selected Group Exhibitions
2006 The Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT “The Elements, Fire”
2006 Vertrue Corporation, Norwalk, CT. Art and Innovation
2006 Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT Art of the Northeast Curated by Ben Barzune
2006 Working Studios, Stamford, CT
2006 LAA Yale & Towne Gallery, Stamford, CT
2005 Westport Arts Center Gallery, Westport, CT “Summer Shorts”
2005 Palace Theatre, Stamford, CT “Great Dames” Curated by Richard Klein, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
2005 Open Studios, LAA. Stamford, CT
2004 Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, CT “Be Seated”
2003 Wilton Art Gallery, Wilton, CT “Two Views” (2-person show)
2003 Stamford Safari, Art in Public Spaces, Stamford, CT
2001 Art-O-Mobiles, Art in Public Spaces, Stamford, CT
2000 Cow Parade, Art in Public Spaces, Stamford, CT
2000 Discovery Museum, Bridgeport, CT “Forces of Nature” Curated by Ben Ortiz
1996 Anthony Giordano Gallery, Dowling College, Oakdale, NY (2-person show)
1995 Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, Juried Exhibitioin
1995 Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
1995 Aaron Gallery, Washington, DC
1992 Margaret Lipworth Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
1992 Cambridge Multicultural Arts Council, Cambridge, MA “Where Fire Meets Water”
1991 Phyllis Weil & Company, NY, “Trace Elements”
1990 The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY “Chords and Discords”
1990 University of Connecticut, Stamford, CT
1990 The Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT “ Artists’ Designed Diversions”
1989 Discovery Galley, Glen Cove, NY “ Dangerous Furniture”
1989 Vanderwoude Tananbaum Gallery, NY, “Artists’ Toys”
1989 Branchville Soho Gallery, Branchville, CT
1988 California State University Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA “Artquest”
1986 Reynold Kerr Gallery, NY Invitational curated by Allan Stone
1986 Connecticut Commission on the Arts, Hartford, CT “Triple Space”, curated by Benny Andrews
1985 Columbia College, Columbia, MO “Paper in Particular”
1985 Rutgers University, “Maquettes”
1984 University of Massachusetts, Amhurst, MA “Small Works” Curated by Nancy Hoffman

Special Projects and Commissions
2002 Tully Health Center, Stamford, CT Permanent Exhibition of 26 works
2000 Permanent Foyer Installation, Mosaic Corporation, Norwalk, CT
1999 Contributing Artist, Home Resource Guide
1999 Murals for NRG Nightclub, VIP Lounge, New Rochelle, NY
1999 Listed in Who’s Who of American Women
1998 Phoenix Insurance Company, Avon, CT Permanent Installation
1995 Book, “ON FIRE, poem and paintings” published
1991 Parrish Art Museum, Demonstration & Talk, “Pop-Ups”
1990 General Electric Corporation, Permanent Installation

Selected Publications
2002 ARTnews, Kenneth Best, Review of ON FIRE, Stamford Center for the Arts
2003 The Advocate & Greenwich Tiimes, Lisa Streitfeld, “Two Views” at Wilton Gallery
2000 The New York Times, William Zimmer, “Drama in Nature, Burning Oil Fields, Cascading Water”
2001 The Advocate & Greenwich Times, Lisa Streitfeld, “Transformation Rites at the Rich Forum”
2001 Living In Stamford, City Diary “On Fire” Lisa Pierce Breunig
2001 The Norwalk Hour, Carolee Ross, “Fire, Walk With Me”
1996 The New York Times, Helen A. Harrison, “Shades of Nature”
1995 Times/Mirror Newspapers, Carolee Ross, “The Fire Next Time”
1995 Star News, Exhibition to Heat Up Scottsdale Center for the Arts
1995 The Connecticut Post, Paintings Catch Oil Field Horror, Harold F. Cobin
1995 Scottsdale Daily Progress
1995 Tribune Newspapers, Don’t Let Technology Turn You Off, Paul Khera
1995 New Times, Art/Up and Atom, Bette Rinehart
1995 Palm Beach Post, Gary Schwan, Five Panel Wallpiece Captures Fury of Kuwaiti Oil Field Fires
1994 Art Now, Gallery Guide, Front Cover
1991 The Stamford Advocate, Carolee Ross, Artist Inspired to Create Fireworks
1991 The New York Times, William Zimmer, “Hudson River Open the Artists Tell a Good Story”.
1990 My Time at Tiffany’s, Gene Moore and Jay Hyams
1990 The Stamford Advocate, Janet Koplos, Review of PMW Gallery
1989 Splash Magazine, Art Feature: Francine Funke
1989 ARTnews, Gerrit Henry, Francine Funke at Barbara Braathen Gallery
1988 The New York Times, William Zimmer
1988 The New York Times, Helen A. Harrison, Furniture with Harm on its Mind
1986 The New York Times, Grace Glueck, Through A Glass Brightly, Artists Creations Abound in City’s Windows”
1986 Connecticut Magazine, Peoplescene
1985 Southern Connecticut Newspaper, Sean Keating, Funke Turns the Ordinary into Art
1985 New Haven Register, Shirley Gonzales Review
1985 Stamford Advocate and Greenwich Times, Weekend Front Cover

Television Coverage
1995 Cablevision of Connecticut, The Exchange, 7 minute interview
1995 Cable Feed from the Russell Senate Rotunda, Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C. Senators Joseph Lieberman and Chris Dodd with installation of Plumes, Kuwaiti Oil Field Fires.
1986 Hartford Community Television, Coverage of Triple Space
1986 NBC Alive at Five, Coverage of the Vanderwoude Tananbaum Gallery

Selected Collections
Agnes Gund, President of the Board of Directors, The Museum of Modern Art, NYC
Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT.
Phoenix Insurance Company Conference Center, Avon, CT
Mosaic Direct Corporation, Norwalk, CT
The General Electric Corporation, Fairfield, CT
Prudential Bache Securities, NY
Mr. Kent Logan, Los Angeles, CA
Tully Center, Stamford Health Systems, Inc.
Mr. & Mrs. Alan Slifka, Director of The Big Apple Circus
Mr. & Mrs. Burton Hoffman, Stamford, CT
Barbara Myers, Wilton, CT
Dana Tyler, Stamford, CT
Vertrue Corporation, Norwalk, CT

Library Collections
ON FIRE, poem and paintings is represented in the following library collections:
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ingalls Library, Cleveland, OH
National Museum of Women in the Arts Library, Washington, DC

Education
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Bachelor of Fine Arts, College of Art, Architecture and Planning
Hunter College Graduate School, New York City. Master of Fine Arts Degree


The art of Francine Funke ranges from large mixed media wall pieces and installations, to acrylic paintings on canvas and paper, to 3-dimensional works on paper—and to her latest Mechanical Botanical Series which utilizes computer and digital technology.

Her signature pop-up chair sculptures, called “Dimensional Drawings”, were chosen by the legendary, Gene Moore, Director of Tiffany & Company, to be displayed in all five of their windows on Fifth Avenue in New York City.

Ms. Funke’s artwork has been exhibited in numerous major museums nationwide. Her installation, Plumes, traveled to the Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the Scottsdale Center for the Arts in Scottsdale, Arizona, and the Russell Senate Rotunda on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, where her exhibition was sponsored by Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut.

Among her New York City gallery venues are exhibitions at the Barbara Braathen Gallery (solo), Walter Wickiser Gallery (solo), Vanderwoude Tananbaum Gallery, Phyllis Weil Gallery, and solo exhibitions at the PMW Gallery, and the Stamford Center for the Arts in Stamford, CT.

Her paintings were included in shows at the Aldrich Museum, Parrish Art Museum, Dowling College Art Museum, Hudson River Museum, California State University Art Museum, Discovery Museum, Bruce Museum, The University of Massachusetts, Rutgers University, and the Cambridge, MA Multicultural Arts Center. Her installation, “Plumes” was recently included in an exhibition at the Contemporary Art Gallery of Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT.

Her work has been reviewed in Artnews, The New York Times, New York Magazine, Art Now, Splash Magazine, the Stamford Advocate and Greenwich Times, Art, New England, Palm Beach Post, The NY Daily News, the Scottsdale Daily Progress, and Times/Mirror Newspapers.

Francine’s artwork is in the collections of the Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Agnes Gund, Chairperson of the Museum of Modern Art, Dana Tyler, anchor at CBS News, Mr. Kent Logan, The Aldrich Museum, the Phoenix Insurance Company, Prudential Bach Securities, the Tully Health Center in Stamford, CT, the General Electric Corporation, and Vertrue Corporation.

Her book, ON FIRE, poem and paintings, is in the library collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, the National Museum of Women in the Arts Library, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas, and the Cleveland Museum of Art.

She has recently been chosen to create a 32 foot mural for Stamford’s International School at Roger’s Magnet.

Francine Funke received a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from Cornell University School of Art, Architecture, and Planning, and a Master of Fine Arts Degree from Hunter College in NYC. She is listed in Who’s Who of American Women.