Lincoln Glenn Gallery is excited to announce the exhibition Sherron Francis : A Splash of Serenity, 1973-77 , a female second-generation New York based Abstract Expressionist and Color Field artist. The exhibition will be on view April 18–June 8, with an opening reception scheduled for Thursday, April 18th from 6pm-8pm ET.
This marks the first one-person show for Francis in New York City in 44 years. Francis was a fixture in the 1970s downtown New York art scene, where her close circle consisted of artists Dan Christensen, Larry Poons, and Larry Zox, amongst other well-known second-generation Abstract Expressionists. Leading galleries including Andre Emmerich and Tibor de Nagy represented her during this period, and she was included in the 1973 edition of the Whitney Biennial. Art critic Peter Schjeldahl in 1973 positively reviewed her body of work, commenting in the New York Times that her “colors run to luxurious brownâgolds, dreamy blue greens and dusty pinks, though each canvas is alive with a variety of evanescent hues and tints.”
Helen Frankenthaler and Clement Greenberg both owned paintings executed by Francis. Although she has previously been omitted from art history books on abstract expressionism and color field painting, this exhibition sets the stage for rediscovery in 2024, displaying 12 works that have not been shown in 50 years.
Lincoln Glenn Gallery believes Sherron Francis deserves to be restored to her own context in art history. This exhibition reintroduces her intellectually conceived, radiant, and adventurous paintings, created between 1973 and 1977. Her oeuvre exemplifies the significant yet often forgotten contributions of American women artists to abstract painting movements in the late twentieth century.
For more information, please visit https://www.lincolnglenn.com/exhibitions/. Exhibition catalogues are available upon request.
