FRANCIE RICH specializes in satirical portraits of dogs, people and Barbies. Names for her works come from the obituary nicknames from the New Orleans Times Picayune newspaper. She and artist husband, John Hodge also organize and lead European tours. They are a very clever couple!
My exuberance and zest for life is matched only by my bountiful lethargy, ennui, and abundant capacity for run-on sentences. I married my father and my husband married his crazy Aunt Sadie. The four of us are tripping the light fantastic even though two of us are dead. I am an anxious, insecure person with low self esteem but I have the ability to laugh at others.
I teach art history and organize and lead tours with my husband, John Hodge. John makes pottery and teaches pottery to rich menopausal women whom he refers to as his patients. Since Hurricane Katrina I’ve been having Britney Spears’ dreams.
BFA from Minneapolis College of Art and Design (also studied one year at Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam)
MFA from California College of the Arts
Artist-in-Residence Fellowship Grant, Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM
Services to the Field Grant, National Endowment for the Arts and the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans
Visual Arts Fellowship, Southern Arts Federation/National Endowment for the Arts, Southeast Seven-11
Artist Fellowship, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
Collections include: New Orleans Museum of Art, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans Aquarium of the Americas, New Orleans, LA Prudential Life Insurance, Newark, NJ Ewing Gallery of Art, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN Laila and Thurston Twigg-Smith, Honolulu, HI Frederick R. Weisman, Los Angeles, CA Ann and Howard Barnett, New Orleans, LA The Residency Collection, Gallery 409, Roswell, NM Sheraton Hotel, New Orleans, LA McGlinchey, Stafford, Minz, Cellini and Lang, New Orleans, LA Ted Schachter, MGM-UA Telecommunications, Inc., Culver City, CA
