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Frances Paley
The Mirror, n.d. Digital print on archival paper Available sizes: 15 x 20 in., 20 x 30 in., 30 x 40 in., 40 x 60 in., C Print 50 x _in. Signed and numbered / Each size limited to an edition of 15 Available matted, framed or mounted on Plexiglas
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
For more than 30 years, Frances Paley has been exploring various media. Her work has evolved from early investigations in sculpture using machine technology to large-format black and white photography and on to airbrushed watercolor and pen and ink drawings in the 1980s. Over the past decade, Paley has been involved in fine art prints utilizing photographic imagery and computer enhancement. The images are as taken through the camera lens, no layering is used. They are not a montage. Each image represents a particular moment in time and the sole change is through color. The images embody the romantic, mysterious and surreal. They present the world from a slightly askew stance and are meant to be ambiguous and mildly disorienting. She has exhibited nationally and internationally including exhibitions in Peru, Italy and France. Her work is in various museum, corporate and private collections. Frances Paley has a Bachelor of Arts degree from San Diego State University, a Master of Fine Arts degree from Rochester Institute of Technology, and a Master of Arts degree in Psychotherapy from Goddard College. She held a faculty position and administrative post at Rochester Institute of Technology. Artist Statement The images are exactly as taken, meaning there is no layering, moving of objects, reworking of vignettes, etc. They are not a montage. For me this is important as it represents the truth of that image at the time it was made. I put the image on the computer and the only work I do is color. I take the color out of the image and basically repaint it. I do this with a series of inversions, meaning I work it in the positive image, change it to a negative, work more, move it back to a positive, etc. Finally I decide which one I want to keep. I only photograph inanimate things. I do not see the inanimate as "lifeless". To me they have life and by painting them they seem to exhibit energy and dynamism. They have the ability to reflect feelings, attitudes and can elicit emotion. They embody the poignancy of memory, longing, love and loss. They mirror our vulnerability and humanity by allowing us to peek into our wistful desires to capture the ephemeral and transcend time. The range of the work deals with beauty and mystery existing in a surreal reality.
1991 Master of Arts Degree - Psychotherapy
1979 Master of Fine Arts Degree
1975 Bachelor of Arts Degree
2009 Ikebo Gallery, Turin Photo Festival, Turin, Italy 2008 Librairie les Arcades Groupe Quedillart, Paris, France, Exhibition and Book Signing 2006 Martin Chambi Archive, Cuzco, Peru, Frances Paley Photographs
2013 Art Pam Beach, West Palm Beach, Florida 2013 Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, Alumni exhibition 2013 Geisel Gallery at One Bausch + Lomb Place, Rochester, New York, The Works of Frances Paley 2013 Nan Miller Gallery, Rochester, New York, Albert Paley & Frances Paley 2012 Vignelli Center Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, Frances & Albert Paley recent works 2012 Luck Street Gallery, Key West, Florida, Another World Other Places 2012 Nan Miller Gallery, Rochester, New York, New works by Albert Paley & Frances Paley 2012 Bausch and Lomb corporate art exhibition program, Rochester, New York 2011 Spectrum Gallery, Rochester, New York, Frances Paley Adornments 2011 Art Palm Beach, Palm Beach, Florida, Ruth Lawrence Fine Art 2010 Nan Miller Gallery, Rochester, New York, Albert and Frances Paley 2010 Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, Alumni Show 2008 Millenia Gallery, Orlando, Florida 2008 Hawk Galleries, Columbus, Ohio, Albert Paley, Frances Paley 2008 SOFA, Hawk Galleries, Chicago, Illinois 2008 Carnegie Library, Perry, Iowa, Photography Frances Paley 2007 Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, Photography Frances Paley 2006 Photo LA, Los Angeles, California, Behnam Gallery 2006 Millenia Gallery, Orlando, Florida, Frances Paley Archive of Ephemera 2006 Academy Art Museum, Easton, Maryland 2006 Gallery Francoise, Lutherville, Maryland, Frances Paley Archive of Ephemera Photographs 2006 Photo San Francisco, San Francisco, California, Benham Gallery 2005 pARTners, Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, Washington 2005 Millenia Gallery, Orlando, Florida, Dream Archive, Photographs by Frances Paley 2005 Galerie Francoise, Lutherville, Maryland, First look 2005-2006 Season 2005 Benham Gallery, Seattle, Washington, In Between the Lines, The Photography of Frances Paley 2005 Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida, Archive of Ephemera: Photography of Frances Paley |
