Frances Barth A Painting Conversation

Frances Barth (b. 1946, The Bronx) is an American visual artist best known for paintings situated between abstraction, landscape and mapping. In her later career, she has she expanded her practice to include video and narrative work. Her awards include: The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, 2017; Elected into the National Academy, 2011; Anonymous Was a Woman Grant, 2006; American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Award, 2004; American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Award, 1999; Joan Mitchell Award, 1995; Adolphe and Esther Gottlieb Individual Support Grant, 1993; National Endowment for the Arts Grant, 1982; John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, 1977; National Endowment for the Arts Grant, 1974; Creative Artists Public Service (CAPS) Grant, 1973.Barth received her advanced degrees in painting and art history from Hunter College, CUNY, and has been working and showing her painting in New York and internationally since the 1960s.

Karen Wilkin is an independent curator and critic. The author of monographs on Stuart Davis, David Smith, Anthony Caro, Kenneth Noland, Helen Frankenthaler, Giorgio Morandi, and Hans Hofmann, she has organized exhibitions of their work internationally. She is a Contributing Editor for Art for the Hudson Review and contributes regularly to the New Criterion and the Wall Street Journal. Ms. Wilkin teaches in the New York Studio School's M.F.A program.