PRESS

"Like many artists who have come of age in the past two decades, Frances E.J. has never felt compelled to adhere to a single signature style. Nonetheless, though she's worked in media from the traditional to the cutting edge, certain themes and preoccupations run throughout her work. These include an ecological consciousness, an examination of the role of the artist in society, and a concern for the ethical underpinnings of art and design...In all her work...there is still a concern for esthetics, for the pure pleasure of color and line."
— Ann Landi, Senior Editor, ART NEWS MAGAZINE

Frances E.J.'s work, "is like the most effective poetry, a poetry of allurement, enigmatic and evocatiive..." It is "a call to our consciousness, to our emotions, to our reason to reassess how custom reconciles us to everything, including artistic rules and the destructive habits of humanity...Frances E.J.'s artistic practice concurs with Lyotard's equation of aesthetics as the wrokshop for the forging of the most discriminating critical concepts. By blurring the borders between humans and other organic life she subverts the conventions of art and the separation between the human-created supranature and the natural environment. And thus what is distant becomes near; what is near becomes distinct and obscure, monolithic and multiple, a call to our consciousness, to our emotions, to our reason to reasses how custom reconciles us to everything, including artistic rules and the destructive habits of humanity."
— Nicomedes Suarez Arauz, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts