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Artist statement
My artistic process is an act of intuition, investigation, and the amalgam of seemingly random objects. By merging photography with painting, portraiture with dreamed landscapes, my images blur the boundaries between the real and the unreal. I invite the viewer to engage with me in an imaginative discourse and to enter into a world of dreams and memory.
These dream-like visions are constructed of photographs I’ve taken as well as discarded portraits of long-forgotten ancestors. My images are intended to evoke a sense of transience, longing, memory, and dislocation.
In composing my images, I pay tribute to the collage artists and pictorialists of the late 19th century, as well as to the magical realists and surrealists who followed.
Fran Forman has an MFA from Boston University and an MSW in psychiatric social work. She is a Resident Scholar at the Women’s Studies Research Center at Brandeis and teaches digital collage at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Her work has been exhibited widely, both locally and internationally, and her photographs have won many awards, including the 2012 Px3 Prix de la Photographie and the International Photography Awards in 2010 and 2008. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
