On Exhibit in the Gallery…
Published November 13th, 2024
Acclaimed photographer Fran Forman exhibits some of her early work in the solo show ALTERED HABITATS at the Bedford Free Public Library from November 14, 2024 to January 14. 2025. Her images blur the boundaries between the real and the unreal. They are visual narratives that evoke a sense of transience, longing, memory, and dislocation.
In the early 1990’s Fran Forman began using Photoshop to push her interest in combining photography and mixed media. She employs old and new photographs, scanned objects, paintings, and drawings, to create visual narratives untethered to time and place.
In merging photography with painting and portraiture with dreamed landscapes, her image-making leverages the richness of color and the patina of textures to rearrange reality.
Her process is an act of intuition and investigation. She constructs these dreamy visions and altered habitats with found or borrowed disparate sources. She mines and transforms contemporary and antique photos to create a mosaic from her imagination and pays tribute to the collage artists and the Pictorialists of the late 19th century.
Fran Forman’s work is in many permanent collections including MFA Boston, The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, the MFA Houston, and more. She has mounted solo exhibitions at venues including The Fox Talbot Museum, Massachusetts State House, The Griffin Museum of Photography, AfterImage Gallery, and Pucker Gallery, Boston. She is represented by Pucker Gallery (Boston), Afterimage Gallery (Dallas), Susan Spiritus Gallery (Newport Beach, CA), BBA Gallery (Berlin), Photo/Graphica (Mexico).
The public is invited to view the exhibit during regular library hours.
This exhibit would not be possible without assistance from the Friends of the Bedford Free Public Library.