Ricardo Francis
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| Ricardo Francis | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 8, 1976 Houston, Texas |
| 🏳️ Nationality | American |
| 🎓 Alma mater | Maryland Institute College of Art, BFA |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| Known for | Painting and performance art |
| 🏅 Awards | Musicfest: Level 1 Scholarship in Painting; National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts: Level 1 Scholarship in Painting; Presidential Scholarship in the Arts on behalf of the White House Commission on Presidential Scholars |
Search Ricardo Francis on Amazon.Ricardo Osmondo Francis (born 1976) The Presidential Scholar of the Arts is a New York-based painter and performance artist. A founding member of BLAFTCO, an alternative visual art group where Francis first began conceptualizing and developing large scaled art projects and art exhibits. Inspired by Classical art, multi-ethnic antiquity, and present day advertising imagery, Francis’ work culls from every possible corner of the visual culture. His lush elaborately graphic surrealistic paintings and drawings often depict the social constructs of humanity and the complexity of our existence through conceptually layered portraiture, still life, and or abstract compositions.
Work[edit]
Francis has created a wide variety of community based, innovative multi-media projects and exhibitions such as The New Museum (1994), Public Opinion (1996), and All Sizes/Real People (1997) since 1996. In 2000, he developed Apanamae Productions, his own visual arts company, where he premiered “Exhibit A” (2002) and “New sKIN” (2003).
As a writer and director, he has produced the major multi-media performance projects, such as, “Que Hora Es?” (2002) And “The Anonymous Life” (2005). Other notable projects include: The List, (2005), Resting Faith, (2006), Lust Becomes Night (2007) and In the Garden of Hopes and Dreams, Obama (2007).
A former Curator-in-Residence at 32 Jones Gallery at the Hudson Pride Connections Center, he currently serves as Gallery Director of LeonidesArts NY, an artist-run multi-media visual arts organization dedicated to presenting contemporary art exhibitions and/or public art projects that reflects a variety of distinct themes, disciplines, and cultural experiences outside of the conventional art gallery tenet.
Exhibitions[edit]
Solo[edit]
- To Be Continued (2020)
- RE:VIEW (2018)
- Mythic/Poetic (2016-2018)
- Turn of the Century (2014)
- You Are Here (2012)
- MEN: A Pictorial Sketchbook from 2001 to the Present
- Brother to Brother, 2006
- The Anonymous Life, 2004
- New Skin, 2002
- Exhibit A, 2002
- Catch the Monkeys, 1996
Group[edit]
- "SUB (URBAN)
- "AMERICAN MADE/MADE IN AMERICA", 2003
- "DL: The Down Low in Contemporary Art", 2003
- "Dancing in the Dark: Part II", 2003
Press[edit]
His work has been featured in publications such as Vibe and Swerv magazines, Callaloo: A Literary Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters, and Liberty, an expatriate magazine in Dubai, U.A.E.
Awards[edit]
- Musicfest — Level 1 Scholarship in Painting
- National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts — Level 1 Scholarship in Painting
- Presidential Scholarship in the Arts on behalf of the White House Commission on Presidential Scholars.
Early life[edit]
Francis was born on September 8, 1976 in Houston, Texas. He attended the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD, and received a BFA in 1998 in painting.
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