{"id":3661,"date":"2023-04-15T19:48:11","date_gmt":"2023-04-15T19:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/?p=3661"},"modified":"2023-04-15T20:25:03","modified_gmt":"2023-04-15T20:25:03","slug":"francie-hester-featured-in-the-washington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/?p=3661","title":{"rendered":"Francie Hester featured in “The Washington Post”"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post<\/em> featured SEFA Artist Francie Hester, discussing her “Confluence” series currently on view at Fred Schnider Gallery of Art<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Entitled Axis<\/em><\/a>, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Francie Hester will be on view at SEFA NYC from May 11 – June 20, 2023.<\/p>\n

Please visit this link for further information and images:\u00a0https:\/\/susaneleyfineart.com\/Detail\/exhibitions\/236<\/a><\/p>\n

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In Francie Hester\u2019s drawing-like paintings, multicolored lines connect circles filled with diverse patterns, and blocks and columns are constructed of tightly spaced pinstripes in many hues. Just as important as the forms painted with acrylic and wax, though, are the bases to which they\u2019re applied: aluminum panels whose metallic sheen is sometimes amplified by aluminum leaf. The pictures in Hester\u2019s \u201cConfluence\u201d series, on display at Fred Schnider Gallery of Art, are as much sculpture as painting.<\/em><\/p>\n

The artist, who divides her time between Colorado and suburban Maryland, works and reworks, building up and then sanding and scraping away. The technique, according to her statement, \u201cinterrelates with imperfections of recollection.\u201d Hard-edged yet improvisational, Hester\u2019s artworks suggest both imaginary scientific diagrams and an industrial form of quilting.<\/em><\/p>\n

Also in the show are examples of two other series, the vertically oriented \u201cStrata\u201d and the smaller, square-formatted \u201cCrossing Lines.\u201d The latter set is inspired by literal as well as figurative lines, the artist writes, including headlines and bloodlines. The pictures appear methodical yet incorporate gestures that are soft and clearly intuitive. The reliance on metal panels and leaf doesn\u2019t prevent Hester from employing a gossamer touch.<\/em><\/p>\n

(Excerpted from The Washington Post<\/em>)<\/p>\n

Please visit this link for the original article on\u00a0The Washington Post<\/em>:\u00a0https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/arts-entertainment\/2023\/04\/14\/art-gallery-shows-dc-area\/\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Washington Post featured SEFA Artist Francie Hester, discussing her “Confluence” series currently on view at Fred Schnider Gallery of Art. Entitled Axis, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Francie Hester will be on view at SEFA NYC from May 11 – June 20, 2023. Please visit this link for further information and images:\u00a0https:\/\/susaneleyfineart.com\/Detail\/exhibitions\/236 …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3661"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3688,"href":"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3661\/revisions\/3688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susaneleyfineart.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}