Fran Bull and Robert Black’s Festive New Exhibit Celebrates Togetherness
Exaggerated and full of life, the twisted faces in Fran Bull‘s sculpture “The Halleluiah Chorus” silently shriek, exalt and exclaim. Adorned with baubles, hats, ruffled collars and animals such as macaws and banded snakes, the motley crew of clay heads is awash in every conceivable color. They look like they’re having fun.
‘We’re All At A Party Called Life On Earth!’: Frobertan — Fran Bull, Robert Black and the art of collaboration
Entering the madcap joy of “We’re All At A Party Called Life On Earth!” instantly raises the energy level of the moment. Fran Bull, artist and writer, and Robert Black, architect and artist, both from Brandon, collaborating under the name Frobertan, have created a unique world that goes a long way towards dispelling the pandemic […]
Artist Fran Bull and her longtime collaborator, Architect Robert Black bring a PARTY to the Sandy Hill Arts Center.
The Sandy Hill Arts Center is pleased to present WE’RE ALL AT A PARTY CALLED LIFE ON EARTH! an installation of painted sculpture works on paper, and interactive elements by FROBERTAN FRAN BULL AND ROBERT BLACK DECEMBER 3, 2021-JANUARY 15, 2022 Reception: TBA Fran Bull, A Fool is Born, Venetian plaster, acrylic paint, mixed mediums, […]
31 Days in the Permanent Collection of the Biblioteca de Catalunya
31 DAYS IN THE PER31 DAYS IN THE PERMANENT COLLECTION OF THE BIBLIOTECA DE CATALUNYA On April 15th, 2021 the Biblioteca de Catalunya’s Museum opened an exhibit of Fran Bull’s wonderful Book “31 Days”. The Book is a collection of poems and drawings created by Fran Bull, daily, while she was going through radiation therapy […]
SYNERGIES – Graphic work, engraving, aquatint, etching and musical installation
SYNERGIES is the consequence of the combination of the work of Fran Bull and Lourdes Figuera Vidal: two plates, a single work. It is a cooperative project developed by two women engravers, who, in the face of the unknown of an unknown result, try to play with two rather distant plastic identities. In this context, the […]
Fran Bull at the Chaffee Art Center (Rutland VT)
The Chaffee Art Center in Rutland is celebrating 60 years, and we are excited to announce that Fran Bull will be featured as part of the new exhibit “PICTURES & WORDS”. …This show is so perfect because it’s words and pictures, and I feel as if I operate through both creatively speaking. Fran Bull The […]
Bull in Venice Again!
Fran Bull was back in Venice in a new show curated by professor and historian Giorgio Gregorio Grasso. A collective with artists Maria Palladino, Giada Eva Elisa Tarantino. The exhibition ran from September 23 through October 10 at the Venice Art Gallery in Venice, Italy.
Fran Bull – Woman Made
Fran Bull talks about her work in sculpture, etchings, poetry, music and more.
Fran Bull makes her catalog more transparent
It is one of the most appreciated protagonists of international contemporary art. Fran Bull, a New York artist but often also present in Europe, in over 50 years of career has explored different currents, always obtaining the acclaim of critics and collectors. Moreover, for Fran, art crosses the border of the craft and also that of passion […]
Choose Your Own Title by Fran Bull becomes a cult
One of only a handful of women painters in Louis K. Meisel’s stable of top Photorealists in the early 1970s,Fran Bull, by the mid-‘80s, had quit the movement, moved to Vermont and turned toward a more nourishing figural and gestural abstraction. In the years since, she has created a distinctive and profound body of work. […]