The Rest Between Two Notes

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Photographer

Fran Forman
Prize

Honorable Mention
Company/Studios

Fran Forman
Date of Photograph

2019
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Website

http://www.franforman.com

By integrating contemporary photography with historical periods and settings around the world, Forman creates a world of illusion. Upon close inspection, images that appear ordinary suggest an underlying tension and aura of mystery. A collection of 110 of Forman's photo-paintings, this book explores life's liminal and in-between moments - coming and leaving, innocence and confidence, night and day, absence and connection, loss and longing, not quite the past and not yet the future. Portals, both real and metaphorical, frequent her layered, complex, and often dark dreamlike images

Biography

Fran’s photo paintings have been exhibited widely, both locally and internationally, and are in many private collections as well the permanent collections of the BOSTON MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, the SMITHSONIAN National Air and Space Museum (Washington, DC), the MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON, The Grace Museum (Texas), the Sunnhordland Museum (Norway), Western Carolina University Fine Art Museum, the Comer Collection at the University of Texas, and the County Down Museum (Northern Ireland). Fran’s 1st major monograph, Escape Artist: The Art of Fran Forman, was published in 2014.
Awards

MAJOR (Selected) PRIZES: 2019 Prix de la Photographie Paris, Bronze andCountry Pick 2018 IPA, Lucie Foundation, 2nd Prize The Photography Gala Awards, 2nd Prize Commencement speaker NE School of Photography and Honorary degree 2016 Critical Mass - Finalist 2015 ‘By the Books’ - 1st Prize FENCE, Boston 2014 Elizabeth Avedon- Best PhotoBooks of 2014 Critical Mass - Finalist 2013 Julia Margaret Cameron Award - 1st Prize 2012 PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris: • Fine Art - 1st Prize • Gold (Collage) • Silver (Book Proposal) 2011 China 2nd Biennial International, Lishui, China Critical Mass - Finalist International Photography Gala Award (Portraits and People) - 2nd Prize Julia Margaret Cameron Award- Honorable Mention 2010 IPA-International Photo Award - Fine Art - collage - 1st Prize IPA-International Photo Award - Honorable Mention, Fine Art Julia Margaret Cameron Award (Fine Art) - Honorable Mention 2009 Women in Photography International - Honorable Mention Prix de la Photographie Paris 2008 (Fine Art) 1st Prize Prix de la Photographie Paris 2008 - Peoples’ Choice, Second Place (Fine Art) Common Ground Touring Collection Ultimate Eye Foundation, Finalist IPA, Lucie Foundation, collage - 2nd Prize IPA, Lucie Foundation, fine art - Honorable Mention 2008 Prix de la Photographie Paris 2008 - Fine Art -1st Prize Prix de la Photographie Paris 2008 - Fine Art - Peoples’ Choice and 2nd prize Common Ground Touring Collection Ultimate Eye Foundation, Finalist IPA, Lucie Foundation - Fine Art - 2nd Prize 2007 PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris - Fine Art - 2nd prize Photoworkshop.com (Adobe) Winner Art Complex Museum, Best in Show Fellowships, Artist in Residencies: Sunnhordland Museum, Norway Studios at Key West Vermont Studio Center Puffin Foundation Tavris Foundation Recent Solo Exhibitions: Fox Talbot Museum, UK Griffin Museum Pucker Gallery Univ of North Dakota AfterImage, Dallas