“Picture space, no matter the medium, is otherworldly by nature. It purports to dissolve the membrane between this world and some adjacent dimension. In our image-drowned age, only art as strange and apparently subdued as that of Bay Area painter Frances Lerner may remind us of this.”
EXHIBITIONS
(SOLO and TWO person)
Fourth Wall Gallery, POKE”, Oakland, Ca., 2023
Centre Associated, Art Contemporain, Auvillar, France, May 1- 31, 2020
Gallery Commonweal, BOLINAS, Ca., October –December 2019
RollUP Project – “A Sampling of Knots,” selected by Sqeak Carnwath- 217 Harrison Street, Jack London Square, Oakland, Ca. 2019 (catalogue The Early Years)
GearBox Gallery, Oakland, Ca.“Other Conversations” Two person with Irene Nelson Nelson October – November 2017
Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco.Ca.,, “Approach,” two person show with Michael Sell, March, 2016
Jack Fischer Gallery, “Minor Characters and Unlikely Companions,” San Francisco, Ca., 2012)
Alphonse Berber Gallery “New Images of Man and Woman”, Alphonse Berber Gallery,”There was Once a World”, Berkeley, Ca. 2009-2010
Shreve’s, San Francisco, Ca., 1991
871 Fine Arts Gallery, 250 Sutter, San Francisco, Ca, 1991
University Press Bookstore Gallery, Berkeley, Ca,, 1986
B.R. Kornblatt Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1983
SELECTED GROUP
Atrium Fair, SFArtWeek, (Represented by Fourth Wall Gallery), San Francisco, Ca., 2026
Fourth Wall Gallery, “Odd, Inspired & Sublime”, 2025-26
Shoh Gallery, Benefit for the Ukraine Symphony Orchestra, March, 14-16, 2024
Concord Center for the Visual Arts, “Reshaping Abstraction,” Concord, Mass. 2024
Roundweather Gallery, “Exchange the Experience,” Oakland, Ca, 2023
Miami Project (satellite of Art Basel), Miami, Florida, represented by Jack Fischer Gallery, 2015
Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, Ca. 2011Art MRKT San Francisco, Concourse Exhibition Center, San Francisco, Ca. 2011
William Havu Gallery, Denver 040 Cherokee Street Denver, Co. 2009, 2011
Aqua Miami, Jack Fischer Gallery, Miami Beach, Fl., Dec.2-5, 2010
Eclectix Gallery, El Cerrito, Ca., 2009
California Small Works 12th Annual Exhibition, Sonoma Museum of Visual Art,
Santa Rosa, Ca., 2000
Danville Fine Art Gallery, Danville, Ca, Printmaking: Diversity, Danville, Ca. 2000
SF Arts Commission Gallery, SF, 1987
Art in Embassies Program – United States Department of State, Vienna, Austria – 1996
871 Fine Arts Gallery, Group show, San Francisco, Ca., 1992
Village Theater Gallery, Danville, CA, “The Printed Page” Bay Area Printmakers
PRESS
Commonweal Gallery, Bolinas, Ca., “After All” 2019-20
The Paris Review, “Leonard Michaels was a Cat Person” by Singrid Nunez, Illustrations by Frances Lerner, November, 2018
TheStudioWorks.blogspot,com – July 27, 2017 – on line interview, studio visit by Alise Morris
Art Business.com March 26,2016
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
Saturday, October 3, 2012
Frances Lerner “From calming to alarming” Kenneth Baker
Visual Art Source Saturday, October 20, 2012 (Visual Art Source) Review: “Frances Lerner” DeWitt Cheng
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
Saturday, December 26, 2009
Review: ‘New Images of Man and Woman’
Kenneth Baker, art critic
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
“Frances Lerner paints puppets that Puzzle”
Jesse Hamlin, Special to The Chronicle
Thursday, January 21, 2010
EAST BAY EXPRESS “Back to the Future”
“Berkeley art historian Peter Selz reexamines the human condition”
By DeWitt Cheng
December 16, 2009
COMMERCIAL
Roll up Project The Early Years, 2021
Cover image “The Loom,” Sobre un dia, en el Mundo,Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina, Brenda Hillman poems, Translation of Ezequiel Zaidenwerg 2020
A Cat reprinted, Leonard Michaels (author) and Frances Lerner (illustrations)
The House Press, 2018
Chain Magazine, University of Honolulu, Hawaii (2001)
Cover for Firecage, a&bend press, San Francisco (2000)
Artwork included in Prosodia – The New College of California Poetics Journal -(1999)
Cover for Ploughshares literary magazine,
Covers for The Seneca Review for Hobart and William Smith Colleges
The Penumbra Press, fine arts and poetry books
1 ‘Epervier Press
Maryland Arts Council publications
Book illustrations for A Cat by Leonard Michaels, Riverhead Books – Div. of Putnam Books, Madison Avenue, NY,NY, 1995
AWARDS
Moulin a Nef, Auvillar France, Artist in Residence 2018 Awarded by VCCA
Sole Artist-in-Residence, City of Salzburg, Austria August/September 2016
Vermont Studio Center 2007 – Full Fellowship
Sonoma County Arts Council 2004
Napa Valley Arts Council 2003, 2004
Artist in Embassy Program, Austria, 1996
Maryland Arts Council 1983,84,85
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts 1982
EDUCATION
Master of Fine Arts, University of Iowa
University of Iowa
Master of Arts, University of Iowa
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Ohio State University
Master of Social Work,
University of Maryland School of Social Work