Francine K. Affourtit

Pieces

Bio

Born:
Residence: Hoboken, NJ

Education

BFA: The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Exhibitions

2005 BAMA Galleries, Hoboken NJ
2005 Skylines Gallery, Chicago
2004 The HotHouse, Chicago
2004 Noble Space, Chicago
2003 Dorland Arts Colony: Resident Exhibition, Dorland CA
2003 S.Halsted Gallery, Chicago
2002 Arena Gallery, Chicago
1999 “SIX” 601 W.26th Street, New York
1997 Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC
1995 Art Institute of Southern California, Laguna Beach

Mission Statement

Francine Affourtit grew up outside Washington D.C. in Fairfax Virginia. She has exhibited her work in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Washington D.C. As a co-founder of the exhibition organization Verge, Francine has created and curated a number of cultural events and exhibitions for emerging artists. This is her first exhibition in Hoboken.
About the series (after):

The series (after) imitates the rhythm of poetic language. Rendering the images in woodblocks allows me to repeat forms while shifting details to mimic the call and response of a poetic refrain. The text is unreadable and becomes object-- a symbol of missed communication, a trace. Drawn from sketches of statues, like the angel lifting the fallen soldier from a WWI memorial to the unknown solider in Cortona, Italy, each figure is caught in moments of compassion, struggle, ecstasy and shame. The recognizable forms slip from representation to abstraction like the temporality of memory and the inevitability of its failure.