Frances Lansing

 

Background

Frances Lansing, born in New York City, Studied at the University of Virginia, then at MIT in Boston, for research and work in language acquisition 1969-1973 Moving to Florence, Italy 1973.
Frances and Yates, etching 1973

In Florence her first art making experience is with the artists Giuseppe Gattuso and Dennis Olsen at the Studio of Santa Reparata where she specializes in etching. She studies Art History at Villa Schifanoia in Florence, painting at Carnegie Mellon University (M.F.A.) and teaches drawing and design at the Syracuse University and Kent State University programs in Florence.

In the ’70s her interests center on photography and etching. Gradually her prints become too complicated in color and texture for traditional means, causing her to explore similar surface and color concerns in painting. In the ’80’s experimental painting techniques with various oils, fresco pigments and emulsions lead to her adoption of bees’ wax encaustic (hot wax) in 1989, realizing large colorful landscapes on wooden panels.

In the last few years Lansing has made her home in the Crete Senese where her husband, painter Sheppard Craige, has designed and constructed a park, the Bosco della Ragnaia. This creation in the town of San Giovanni d’Asso, has become a source for inspiration and study in Lansing’s paintings. It is both the motivation and site for a new series of sculpture by the artist in terracotta and bronze.

Exhibitions

Personal

1979 La Lavanderia, Photography Center, Paris
1980 “Architettura,etchings, Inquadratura Gallery, Florence
1983 Paintings, Villa Schifanoia, Florence
1986 Landscapes, Pastels, Libreria delle Donne, Florence
1987 Paintings, Florence, Galleria Schema
1988 Charta, lavori su carta, Galleria Aglaia, Firenze
1989 Paintings, Galleria Philippe Daverio, Milano
1991 Paintings, Philippe Daverio Gallery, New York
1991 Disegni,Studio Nuova Figurazione, Ragusa
1992 Galleria Padova, Padova
1993 Frances Lansing, Organizzazione Italo-Americana, Bologna
1995 Netta Vespignani, Roma
1996 Pastelli, Galleria Quasar, Monticelli Dangina, Piacenza
1997 Fragmenta, Palazzo Guarnieri, Fondaco delle Biade, Feltre
1999 Encaustics, Zelco Arte, Rho, Milano
2001 Familiar Territory, Frances, Yates Lansing, Palazzo Chigi, San Quirico d’Orcia
2001 Recent Landscapes, Galleria di Architettura, Antonia Jannone, Milano
2005 Frances Lansing 1989-2005, Galleria Credito Valtellinese, Sondrio
2006 Frances Lansing 1989-2005, Galleria Credito Siciliano, Acireale
2008  In the Name of …,  Galleria Amedeo Porro…, Milano

Collective

1978 Premio d’oro; International Graphic Exibition, Cracovia
1980 “Eolia”, Centro Pompidou, Parigi
1981 Artists, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Rich
1981 Collettiva, Il Mercante, Milano
1981 Realtà dell’immagine, Fondazione Levi, Venezia
1981 Prato Estate, Prato
1981 Erotica, fotografie di donne, Firenze
1982 Three Rivers Art Festival, Pittsburgh
1986 Nuove Tendenze, Parterre, Firenze
1987 L’immagine nell’arte, Barberino Val d’Elsa
1988 Gruppo Donatello, Firenze
1989 Per un Museo, Pinacoteca, Ravenna
1990  Anni ‘80, Ex Convento di San Francesco, Sciacca,
1991 Arte Contemporanea Etrusca, Philippe Daverio, Milano
1991, Artae, Achille Bonito Oliva, Centro Congressi, Ferrara
1992 La più bella galleria…, Fortezza da Basso, Firenze
1993 Paesaggi, Galleria Philippe Daverio, Milano
1994 La Grande Mela …, Palazzo Casati, Cortona
1994 Alfabetica, Biblioteca Nazionale, Firenze
1994 Collezione Privata, Palazzo delle Stelline, Milano
1994 Venti pittori in Italia,Marco Goldin, Milano, Bologna, Venezia, etc..
1995 L’altra metà del cielo, Comiso
2001 Arte in Orto, Giardino dei Semplici, Firenze
2006 13′x17′ Padiglione Italia, Venezia,
2006 Laboratorio Italia, Philippe Daverio, Museo Michetti, Francavilla Al Mare
2006 Bestiari di genere, Archivio di Stato, Firenze
2006 I Luoghi dell’Arte, Magazzino del Sale, Siena
2007 La notte dei Lunatici, Galleria dell’Incisione, Brescia
2008 Arte, Donna, Lavoro, Regione Toscana, Palazzo Panciatichi, Firenze
2009 Schema Mater, Spazio Alberto Moretti, Schema Polis, Carmignano (Prato)

Have written about her work:

Paolo Baldacci
Roberto Baravalle
Carlo Bertelli
Raffaele Bueno
David Carrier
Ginevra Quadrio Curzio
Philippe Daverio
Loretta Dolcini Giulietti
Marco Goldin
Fabrizia Lanza
Angelo Pauletti
Amedeo Porro
Monica Sarsini
Ruggero Savinio
Barry Schwabsky
Vittorio Sgarbi
Giorgio Soavi
George Woodman