Bio:

Influenced by the movements of color field and action painting, Francine Tint’s paintings are the result of a process of disclosure, drawn from her own life events, dreams, and literature. Tint has been the proud recipient of grants and awards such as the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Grant, two Pollock Krasner Grants, and a recent Honorable Mention from the Butler Institute. Tint’s work has been shown extensively both nationally and internationally; and is held in the permanent collections of over 27 museums, including the Portland Art Museum, the Heckscher Museum of Art, and the Krannert Art Museum. She has been featured in over 30 solo shows, most recently at Cavalier Galleries in New York City.

Artist Statement:

“My paintings serve as records of a process of disclosure, drawn from my own life events, literature, and dreams. Finding inspiration in the movements of color-based and action painting, and painters such as Larry Poons, I have developed a unique and personalized art practice.

Working wet on wet, I create expressive, mural-sized paintings which concentrate on color and motion. My process is deliberate and confident; I begin with poured washes on unprimed canvas and build energy and space through sharp bursts of color and aggressive mark making. Allowing for both openness and density of marks across the canvas, I see my paintings as a means to convey a unique sense of light, color, and surface. While I consider myself first and foremost a painter, I make use of a diverse range of mark making techniques, both traditional and unconventional. Working on both floor- and wall-mounted surfaces, I move paint across raw canvas instinctively, using tools such as brooms, squeegees, brushes, sticks, and rollers, and integrating hand drawn elements, poured washes, and collage.

My paintings begin as a personal dialogue and are deeply involved with process, but ultimately I see them as an invitation for viewers to have their own journey and reflection.”

In the Press:

“Tint has been working long and hard to differentiate her work from its former context and time frame, doing her best to drag her own unique brand of Color Field painting” – Piri Halasz, The Observer (on Tint’s show at Walter Wickiser Gallery)

“The current paintings of Francine Tint express a variety of truths with a great vigor and deftness of touch.” – Dominique Nahas, Art International

“Tint has remained true to her original convictions about what a painting can be […] Her strengths have always been her idiosyncratic sense of color, her ability to draw energetically at large scale, and her refusal to make ingratiating pictures. In her recent work, her audacity is undiminished, her orchestration of hues more uninhibited than ever, and her drawing…even more predictable” – Karen Wilkin, Art In America

Galleries:

Kunstamatrix Virtual Museum, Berlin, Germany
Chase Young Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
Hardin Center for Cultural Arts, Gadsden, Alabama
Carnegie Visual Arts Center, Decatur, Alabama
Alabama Contemporary Art Center Museum, Mobile, Alabama Cavalier Galleries, New York, NY
Mediateca Provinciale, Palazzo Dell’ Annunziata, Matera, Italy Walter Wickiser, New York, NY
Gallery Sam, Berkeley, CA
Colorida Art Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal
RVS Fine Art, Southampton, NY
Gallery Merz, Sag Harbor, NY
Tria Gallery, New York, NY
Chi Art Center, Westport, CT
Joyce Towbin Chasan Fine Art, New York, NY RVS Fine Art, Southampton, NY
Gallery Merz, Sag Harbor, NY
Gale-Martin Fine Art, New York, NY
Atelier International, New York, NY
The National Arts Club, New York, NY
HVGO de PAGANO Gallery, (formerly Artopia) Marc Miller Gallery, East Hampton, NY Artopia Gallery, New York, NY
Ulysses Gallery, New York, NY
C.S. Schulte Galleries, Millburn, NJ RVS Fine Art, Southampton, NY Shippee Gallery, New York, NY
Gallery Hirondelle, New York, NY Haber Theodore Gallery, New York, NY
Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
Martha White Gallery, Louisville, KY
Sarah Rentschler Gallery, New York, NY
Sarah Rentschler Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions & Art Fairs:

2020 Drawing Challenge V and VII, Jason McCoy Gallery, New York, NY
Invitational Holiday Exhibition, Jason McCoy Gallery, New York
NYTalismans, Monica King Contemporary, New York, NY
XX Factor, The White Room Gallery, Bridgehampton, New York
2019 When It Winter Was, Lictundfire, New York, NY
2018 82nd Midyear Show, The Butler Institute Of American Art, Youngstown, OH Art New York, Cavalier Galleries, New York, NY
Color Field Painters Championed by Clement Greenberg, Frederick Holmes & Co, Gallery Of Modern And Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary, Cavalier Galleries, Palm Beach, FL
Sideshow Nation VI, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2017 Holiday Show, Ille Arts Gallery, Amaganset, NY
2017 55th Season Featured Artists, Harmon Meek Modern, Naples, FL.
2017 Girl Power, Mayson Gallery, New York, NY
2017 ArtMRKT San Francisco, Gallery Sam, San Francisco, CA
2017 Baruch Small Works, Sydney Mishkin Gallery, New York, NY
2017 Art On Paper, Gallery Sam, New York, NY
2016 Mostra Internazionalle Di Pittura, Palazzo Dell’ Annunziata, Matera, Italy
2016 ArtMRKT San Francisco, Gallery Sam, San Francisco, CA
2016 Baruch Small Works, Sydney Mishkin Gallery, New York, NY
2016 Art On Paper, Gallery Sam, New York, NY
2015 Rooted In Abstract Expressionism, Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY
2015 You Go Girl! Celebrating Women Artists, The Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY. Elaine De Kooning, Georgia O’Keefe, Betty Parsons, Francine Tint.
2015 Texas Contemporary, Gallery Sam, Houston, TX
2015 Abstraction Amplified, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX
2015 Art MRKT San Francisco, Gallery Sam, San Francisco, CA
2015 Baruch Small Works, Sydney Mishkin Gallery, New York, NY
2015 Art on Paper, Gallery Sam, New York, NY
2014 Art Hamptons International Art Fair, Gallery Sam, Berkeley, CA
2014 Solos Revisited, Denise Bibro Gallery, New York, NY – Pick of the Week
2014 Nation Two At the Alamo, Side Show Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Crosscurrents: A Treasury Through Time, ACA Gallery, New York, NY – Romare
Bearden, Oscar Bluemner, Theodoros Stamos, Francine Tint
2013 Art Hamptons International Art Fair, Gallery Sam, Berkeley, CA
Southampton International Contemporary Art Fair, ACA Gallery, New York, NY – Abstract New Acquisitions, Academy Art Museum, Easton, MD
Absorbed by Color, The Hecksher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY, Josef Albers, Theodoros Stamos, and Esteban Vicente
Art Hamptons International Art Fair, Gallery Sam, Berkeley, CA artMKT, Gallery Sam, Berkeley, CA
Winter Salon 2012, Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY
Art Hamptons International Art Fair, Gallery Sam, Berkeley, CA
artMKT, Gallery Sam, Berkeley, CA
12 Painters 12 Hours, Rogue Space, New York, NY
Divine Influence, Past and Present, Contemporary Abstract Art and African Sculpture from the Merton D. Simpson Collection, Wilmer Jennings Gallery at Kenkeleba, New York, NY
2010 Art Hamptons International Art Fair, Tria Gallery, New York, NY
2010 Art Hamptons International Art Fair, Gallery Sam, Berkeley, CA
2010 Award Winning 14 Sculptors from Around the Country, Excalibur Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2010 The Heckscher at 90: Then and Now, The Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY,
2010 It’s a Wonderful 10th, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2009 Winter White, Tria Gallery, New York, NY
2009 Edge of Abstraction, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX -Sam Francis, Pablo Picasso, Francine Tint
2008 Group Show, RVS Fine Art, Southampton, NY 2006 Amy Simon Fine Art, Westport, CT
2005 Sally French Gallery, Lambertville, PA
2005 Sideshow Gallery, Xmas show, Brooklyn, NY
2002 Three Person Show, Gale-Martin Fine Art, New York, NY
2001 International Exhibition, Denise Bibro Fine Art, Inc.- Gallery and Guest Artist for Summer of 2001, New York, NY
Four Women, Gale-Martin Fine Art, New York, NY
1998 Present Modernism, Tribes Gallery, New York, NY. Curated by Piri Halasz
1997 Solo, Museo de la Cuidad- Madrid Spain
1996 Movements in Modern Art- Selections from the Permanent Collection, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA
1995 American masters of Watercolor- A 100- Year Survey, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA- Milton Avery, Helen Frankenthaler, Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, John Marin, John Singer Sargent, Francine Tint
Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, The Edmonton Contemporary Artists’ Society, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada- Anthony Caro, Terry Fenton, Sheila Luck, Jules Olitski, Mitchell Smith, Francine Tint
1994 American Abstraction: A new Decade, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA: Richard Pousette-Dart, Robert Goodnough, Joan Mitchell, Elizabeth Murray, Francine Tint.

Bibliography:

2018 Nahas, Dominique; dArt International, Spring/Summer 2018: Explorations: Francine Tint at Cavalier Galleries in NYC
Halasz, Piri; From The Mayor’s Doorstep, March 2018: Three Tall Women (especially Francine Tint)
Lombardi, Dominick; Artes Magazine, March 2018: New York’s Cavalier Gallery Shows Contemporary Artist Francine Tint: ‘Explorations’.
Goodman, Jonathan; Arte Fuse, March 2018: Francine Tint At Cavalier Gallery. Hrbaeck, Mary; Culture Catch, March, 2018: Exploring The World Of Francine Tint. Gibson, David; Artquips, March 2018: Francine Tint “Explorations” at Cavalier Gallery.
Halasz, Piri: From The Mayor’s Doorstep, march 2017: “Art On Paper”
Halasz, Piri; From The Mayor’s Doorstep, February 2016: “A Critic’s Fantasy…”
Halasz, Piri; The Observer, February 2015: “Reinvention: Francine Tint’s Abstractions Evolve at Walter Wickiser Gallery.”
Halsz, Piri; From The Mayor’s Doorstep, February 2015: “Francine Tint At Walter Wickiser: Experimentation”
Halasz, Piri; From The Mayor’s Doorstep, December 2012: “Christmas Bonuses”
Halasz, Piri; From the Mayor’s Doorstep, December 2010: “Divine Influence: Past and Present” at Wilmer Jennings”,
Rosenberg, Karen: New York Times, “Hecksher Museum, An Anniversary: Old Meets New” Rywalt, Chris; NYC art, January 2010: “Winter White at Tria Gallery”
Halasz, Piri; Art Critical, January 2010: “Winter White at Tria Gallery”
Wilkin, Karen, Art in America, October 2008: “Francine Tint At Tria”
Halasz, Piri; From the Mayor’s Doorstep, July 2008:
Prior, Molly; Women’s Wear Daily, August 2007: “Tint’s Body of Work”, profile by Molly Prior Hampton Magazine,Issue 5, Volume 2: “Interview, Francine Tint”, by H.L. Giffor.
Halasz, Piri; Print Edition, July 2005: “A Fine Show of Paintings At Joyce Towbin Chasan Fine Art”,
Sisaro, Ben; New York Times, “Silent Auction”, Arts briefing,
Newhall, Edith, NY Magazine, Editor’s recommendation, March 24, 2003:“A survey of the artists large- scale gestural abstract paintings”
Robinson, Walter, Art Net, March 2003: “Francine Tint is having a ten-year survey of her abstractions sweeping brush strokes and lava-like paint”,
Halasz, Piri; Deluxe Print Edition, Gale-Martin Fine Art Magazine, March 2003: “A Ten Year Retrospective”,
Klein, Lee, NY Arts Magazine, March 2002: Atelier International: Denise Bibro Fine Art and Gale-Martin Fine Art,
Sheffield, Margaret, Art in America, February 2002: “Francine Tint at Atelier International”
Halasz, Piri; New York Arts, Nov 2001 “Review of Solo Exhibition at Atelier International” Halasz, Piri; From the Mayor’s Doorstep, Oct 2001: Francine Tint at Atelier International,
Halasz, Piri; “From the Mayor’s Doorstep”, July 1999: Review National Arts Club Exhibition,
1999 Dahl, Renée, Hamptons Magazine, July 1999 “H Connoisseur- National Arts Club Review”,
1998 Ebony, David; Art in America, Review of Exhibitions, March 1998, p.106. Avenue Magazine, February 1998: “Best of the Season”
Klein, Lee: New York Arts, Jan. 1998: “Tribes”
1997 Halasz, Piri, “From the Mayor’s Doorstep”, October 1997
El Punto de Las Artes, Madrid Spain, July 31, 1997. “Solo Color”, Francine Tint.
1996 Monji, Makiko, Oggi International Tokyo, Japan, April 1996:”Profile on Francine Tint, Her Life and Art”
1995 Jamie Ellin, Forbes, Oct. 1995: “Exhibition Review: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Musée National d’Histoire et d’Art, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and Artopia Gallery, Sunstrom Fine Art.: Tomor, Michael A. PhD, 1995 Exhibition Catalogue, “American Masters of Watercolor”

Museum Collections:

Acadamy Art Museum, Easton, MD
Alabama Contemporary Art Center Museum, AL
Amarillo Museum of Fine Art, Amarillo, TX
Ball State University, Museum of Art, IN
Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL
Binghamton University Art Museum, Binghamton, NY
Brenau University, GA
Carroll Reece Museum, East Tennessee State University, TN
Columbia University, New York, NY
El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX
Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY
John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL
Krannert Art Museum, Urbana-Champaign, IL
Lafayette College Art Galleries & Art Collection. Williams Center For The Arts, Easton, P Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL
Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
Northern Arizona University Art Museum and Galleries, AZ Norton Museum, West Palm Beach, FL
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA Stanford University Museum of Art, CA
Tampa Museum Of Art, Tampa, FL
Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, MN
Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, KS
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
University of Wisconsin, Madison Elvehjem Museum of Art, Madison, WI Villanova University Art Gallery, Villanova, PA

Selected Private Collections:

The National Arts Club, New York Burton Berson, MD, New York, NY Anthony Caro, Pine Plains, New York Ralph Gibson, New York, NY
Bruce Gitlin, New York, NY
Clement Greenberg, New York, NY
Glen Jelks, MD, New York, NY
Eric Kamen, Morgan Stanley Co., Inc., New York, NY Mark Kupersmith, MD, New York,
Jerome Kretchmer, New York, NY
Guy LaRoche, New York, NY
Nicole Miller, New York, NY
Kenneth Noble, MD, New York, NY
William Edward O’Reilly, New York, NY
Roger Miles Rose, MD, New York, NY
Herman Turndorf, MD, New York, NY

Selected Corporate and Public Collections:

Human Arts Association
St. Mary’s Children’s Hospital, Bayside, NY Citibank, New York, NY
Galleria des Arcades, Bern Switzerland Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY Lawrence A. Yannuzzi, MD, New York, NY
Loscalzo & Loscalzo, New York, NY
Martin Turchin, New York, NY
Michael J. Hecht, Hecht & Co., New York, NY Miller, Tabak, Hirsch & Co., New York, NY Mintz Developers, Morristown, NJ
Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY
Pepsi Co., Purchase, NY
Pfizer, New York, NY
Sloan Kettering Hospital, New York, NY Tampax-Tambrands, Lake Success, NY Thomas P. Sculco, MD, Surgeon, New York, NY Tokyo John-Do., Ltd., Minata-Ku, Tokyo, Japan

Awards:

The Triangle Workshop, Pine Plains, NY
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
The Brooklyn Museum Art School, Brooklyn, NY The New York Studio School, New York, NY
Honorable Mention, 82nd Midyear Show – The Butler Institute Of American Art The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc.
Artists Fellowship Inc. Founded 1859.
Artists Fellowship Inc. Founded 1859.
Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, Inc.
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc.
Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, Inc.
Lifetime membership at The National Arts Club, New York.