Fran Lightman Gibson
Contact Information
Phone: (610) 308-5365
Gallery
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Gallery Affiliation
2016
Morgan Gallery, Corrales, NM
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Painting
Archived Work
Philadelphia Series
Artist's Biography
2018 Cerulean Arts Collective, Member
Artist's Statement
Moving at the Speed of Life: 2022
This is a year of continued thoughts, physical emergence, and unceasing movement.
I started several charcoal drawings at the beginning of 2021 with the understanding that I was advancing the energy I found in my familiar place, My City: Philadelphia.
Now, as things pick up, I am creating formal elements like brushstrokes that are both place, purpose, and speed, colors that are empirical and evocative, and lines that carry the viewer and me far away with attitude.
What were angles are now projections. Fast lines spread out and follow paths to the ends of thought, heights, and depth. This is my personal perspective. As I wrote:
I Am Living at the Speed of Life on all Fronts.
Much of what I learned, I have held close, kept with me for a long time.
Some of what I know, I have seen with my own eyes.
Most of what I have seen is still inside me.
To wit: refresh the pictures, the statues, the trees, the towering vaults, the heroes.
The most current picture of them I have, and carry it all in my heart.
Selected Exhibitions
Solo
2016
New Landscapes, High Point Café, Philadelphia, PA
2014
New Work, Merion Art, Ardmore, PA
Three-person
2014
Philadelphia Artists, CultureWorks of Greater Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Group
2017
154th Small Painting Exhibition, Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA
Juried Exhibition
2015
New Mexico Paintings, Morgan Gallery, Corrales, NM
New Work, Heron Crest Studios, Aston, PA
2014
Large Format Paintings, Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA
Artists’ Work, Heron Crest Studios, Aston, PA
2013
Large Format Paintings, Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA
Artists’ Work, Heron Crest Studios, Aston, PA
2012
Artists’ Work, Heron Crest Studios, Aston, PA
Artspace, Lansdowne, PA
1975
More Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1974
Artists Choose Artists, Cheltenham Art Center, Cheltenham, PA
Publications
2015
Yates, Ernest, En Route from the Capital, Poems of Philadelphia, Xlibris Corporation
(cover art)
Professional Experience
2009-2010
Lecturer, European and American Art Survey Course, Haverford Township Evening School, Haverford, PA
Awards and Honors
1979
Graduate Grant, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
1973
Bocour Prize for Painting, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Collections
Works included in many private collections
Education
1979
Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
MA, Graduate Grant
1973
University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
BFA, Bocour Prize for Painting
Recent Artist Member Mentions on InLiquid
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Cerulean Arts Collective Members’ Exhibitions
Cathleen Cohen, Pia De Girolamo, Fran Lightman Gibson, Denise Sedor & Carol Taylor-Kearney April 6 – May 1, 2022 In-Person … See Full Post
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Moving at the Speed of Life: 2022
Reception: Saturday, April 9, 2022 2 – 5 PM Virtual Artists’ Tour and Talk: Wednesday, April 20 at 6 PM … See Full Post
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Cerulean Arts Collective Members’ Exhibitions
Andrea Beizer, Cathleen Cohen, Fran Lightman Gibson, Carol Taylor-Kearney & Ian Wagner Virtual Reception & Artists’ Talk: Saturday, December 12 … See Full Post
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Taylor-Kearney and Lightman Gibson at Cerulean
Fran Lightman Gibson and Carol Taylor-Kearney are in Cerulean Arts’ Collective Members Exhibitions from December 9, 2020 – January 10, 2021. There is a virtual reception and artists’ talk on Saturday December 12 at 2 pm. Register here.
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Cerulean Arts Collective Members’ Exhibitions
Featuring Fran Lightman Gibson, Andrea Lyons, Tilda Mann, Michael Moore & Amanda Moseley October 16 – November 10, 2019 Reception: … See Full Post
