Selected CV
Selected One and Two-Person Exhibitions
Precarious Visions, Thom Adams Gallery, Manchester, NH, 2024
Mad Rose Gallery, Millerton, NY, 2024
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH, 2021
Precarious Visions, Phillips Museum, Franklin & Marshall, PA, 2021
Inside/Outside, Carter Burden Gallery, NYC, 2021; Atmospheres, 2015; Gestures, 2017
La MaMa La Galleria, NYC–Place Imagined, 2004; The Spirit of Water, 1998; Dollhouse Theatre, 1996; The Secret, 1993
Bill Rice Studio Solo Exhibitions, 1988, 1984
Selected Group Exhibitions
The Shape of Color: 5 Abstract Artists, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA, 2024
Lichtundfire Gallery, NYC–Wings of Desire, 2023; A Touch of Grey 2023; A Lighter Shade of Pale, 2023 Lichtundfire–High Frequency, 2022; Speed of Light, 2022; Minimal Force, 2022; Stratosphere, 2022
Real Abstraction: Five Painters (curated by Peter Frank), 2021
Yard, Steven Harvey Fine Arts, NYC, 2019; Paradise, 2016
Visual Aids, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., NYC, 2013
DNA: East Side (with Wojnarowicz, Rice, Ess, Morrison, Lyshak), Provincetown, MA, 2011
Invitational Exhibition, A.I.R. Gallery, NYC, 1997
Walls, Denise Bibro Gallery, NYC, 1996
The First Decade, La MaMa La Galleria, NYC, 1992
Just Another Asshole #7, curated by Barbara Ess, Cash/Newhouse Gallery, NYC, 1985
Salon/Saloon, Bill Rice Studio, NYC, 1985
Awards and Honors
Award Winner, Oliver Art Center, Frankfort, Michigan, September, 2011
Stamford Art Assoc, 29th Annual Faber Birren National Color Award (juror: Paulina Pobocha) CT, 2009
Art Quest Finalist, (curators: B. Haskell, H. Fox, J. Crist, W. Olander, N. Rifkin), NYC and LA, l986
Museum of the Hudson Highlands Competition, (curator: Patterson Sims, l985
Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Annual Prize Competition (juror: Alice Neel), l983
Publications
The Shape of Color, by Claire Ogden, Cambridge Day, April 7, 2024
Wings of Desire, by Stephen Gambello, Tussle, September 2023
Abstract Singularity, by Jonathan Goodman, Art 511 Magazine, June, 2021
Review of Small Standing Tall, by Dominique Nahas, Dart Intl Magazine, May, 2021
Overview of Real Abstraction: Five Painters Beyond the Picture, by Peter Frank, March, 2021
First Indigo and Lifestyle, About Painting with Francie Lyshak, online, April, 2017
Indiana, Gary. One Brief Scuzzy Moment. New York Magazine, 12/6/04. pp. 48-52
Lyshak-Stelzer, F. The Secret: Art & Healing from Sexual Abuse, Safer Society Press, Brandon, VT, 1999
Spirits of the Deep: Francie Lyshak and Basil Twist at the Ocean of Infinite Metaphor, by Joe Vojtko, pp. 5-11. Review, 10-1-98
The Science and Art of Pain Management: Notes on the Nascent of Surrealist Epiphany, by Joe Vojtko, p. 11. Review, 1-15-98.
Collections
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
Phillips Museum at Franklin and Marshall, PA
Bronx Children’s Psychiatric Center, Bronx, New York
Private collections in US and Great Britain
Education
Pratt Institute, Art Therapy and Creativity Development, Masters of Professional Studies, NYC, 1976-78
Wayne State University, Painting and Drawing, Bachelor’s of Fine Arts, Detroit, Michigan, 1-69 to 5-70