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Frances McCormack: Rooted in Wonder
May 01 - Jun 29, 2025
Thursday through Sunday, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.
707/226-5991
About
Frances McCormack: Rooted in Wonder presents a 40-year survey of painting and collage by the celebrated Bay Area artist.
Originally from Boston, Massachusetts, McCormack relocated to the Bay Area in the late 1970s, completing her fine arts education at San Francisco State University and the University of California, Berkeley. Her abstract compositions, featuring tube or tendril like forms, fields and bands of color, and painterly layering and effects, quickly earned her praise, with art critic Kenneth Baker writing: “her paintings strive for a kind of material poetic statement possible only in painting.”
SF/Arts Curator Insight
Leaf shapes, tube forms, and washes of water rendered in lush greens and golds overflow this expansive 40-year survey of Bay Area painter/collage artist Frances McCormack. Taking her inspiration, sometimes figuratively, from nature, the colors are riotously rich, calling to mind deep forest and fertile garden.
Mark Taylor
SF/Arts Curator
di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art