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Francine
Funke
Francine
Funke has extensive expertise in many aspects of art, ranging
from traditional painting, drawing and sculpture, to three
dimensional pop-up design, to graphic design and illustration.
Her
work has been recognized by the legendary, Gene Moore, Director
of Tiffany and Company, who displayed her pop-up chair sculptures,
called Dimensional Drawings, in all five Tiffany Windows on
Fifth Avenue in New York City.
Ms.
Funke specializes in the depiction of furniture and room settings.
Her custom room portraits and "chair sculptures"
are in many area collections, and she was recently commissioned
to create two room portraits for the Phoenix Insurance Company's
Cliff House Conference Center in Avon, Connecticut.
Francine
Funke's artwork has been exhibited in many major museums nationwide,
including the Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, The
Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, NY, the Scottsdale Center
for the Arts, and the Russell Senate Rotunda on Capitol Hill
in Washington, DC where her installation, "Plumes, Kuwaiti
Oil Field Fires," was sponsored by Senator Joseph Lieberman.
New
York City gallery exhibitions include the Barbara Braathen
Gallery, Vanderwoude Tananbaum Gallery, Phyllis Weil Gallery
and Walter Wickisier Gallery. Her work has been reviewed in
ARTnews, The Stamford Advocate and Greenwich Times, New York
Magazine, and The New York Times.
In
addition, Ms. Funke is a freelance artists for Chalk and Vermilion
Fine Arts in Greenwich, CT, and is Contributing Artist for
Greenwich Home Resource Guide. Currently, she is designing
a logo and interior painting installation for the new offices
of the Mosaic Direct Corporation in Norwalk, CT.
Francine
Funke received a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from Cornell
University, College of Art, Architecture and Planning, a Master
of Fine Arts Degree for Hunter College in NYC, and is a computer
trained Graphic Designer. She is listed in Who's Who of American
Women.
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