Francie Lyshak
Complete Exhibition History
Solo, Two and Three Person Exhibitions
Living Color, 2-Person Show, Mad Rose Gallery, Millerton, NY, Feb 2026
Made for Each Other, 2-Person Show, Steven Harvey Fine Arts, NY, NY, Jan 2026
Navigating the Surface, 3- Person Show, Carter Burden Gallery, NY, NY, Aug 2024
Precarious Visions, New England Collage, Thom Adams Gallery, Henniker, NH, Feb 2024
Two Person Exhibition, Mad Rose Gallery, Millerton, NY, Feb, 2024
Inner Life, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH, December, 2021
Precarious Visions, Phillips Museum, Franklin & Marshall, PA, 2021
Gadsen Cultural Art Foundation, Hardin Center, Gadsen, AL, September, 2021
Inside/Outside, Carter Burden Gallery, NY, NY, September, 2021
Space and Being, 2-Person Exhibition, Chatham, NY, July, 2021
Precarious Visions, Phillips Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA, February, 2021
Examining Movement and Gestures, 3-Person Show, Carter Burden Gallery, April 201
Atmospheres, Carter Burden Gallery, NY, NY, April, 2015
Archetypal Landscapes, LaMama LaGalleria, NY, NY, April, 2009
Place Imagined, La Mama La Galleria, NY, NY, April, 2004
Archetypal Landscapes: The Spirit of Water, La Mama La Galleria, NY, NY, October, 1998;
Dollhouse Theatre, LaMama LaGalleria, NY, NY, April, 1996;
The Secret, LaMama LaGalleria, NY, NY, November, 1993
Twelve Fables, Private Exhibition, Larry Mitchell & Richard Morrison Studio, NY, NY, January, 1990
The James Show, Bill Rice Studio Solo Exhibitions, NY, NY, February, 1988
Solo Exhibition, Claire Dunphy’s Studio, NY, NY, 1985
Rick Picks Francie: A 10-year Retrospective, Bill Rice Studio, NY, NY, September, 1984
More Emotional Realism, WOW Gallery, NY, NY, May, 1983
3-Person Show, Snug Harbor, SI, NY, September, 1980
New York Paintings: 1974-1979, Bill Rice Studio, NY, NY, February, 1986
Group Exhibitions
Dodecahedron: Quintessence of the Universe, Lichtundfire, NY, NY, September, 2024
Greenwich Art Society Group Art Competition, Greenwich, CT, April, 2024
The Shape of Color: 5 Abstract Artists, Brickbottom Artists Bldg, Somerville, MA, April, 2024
Wings of Desire, Lichtundfire, NY, NY, September, 2023
Lichtundfire Gallery, NYC–Wings of Desire, 2023;
A Touch of Grey, Lichtundfire, NY, NY, May, 2023
This Fragile Beautiful Earth, Gallery Sitka, Newport, RI, April, 2023
A Whiter Shade of Pale, Lichtundfire, NY, NY, January, 2023
High Frequency: Kinetic Abstract Singularity, Lichtundfire, NY, NY, September, 2022
Making the Paint Dance, Online Exhibition curated by Peter Frank, August, 2022
Speed of Light, Lichtundfire, NY, NY, August, 2022
Minimal Force, Lichtundfire, NY, NY, April, 2022
Stratosphere, Lichtundfire, NY, NY, January, 2022
Real Abstraction: Five Painters (curated by Peter Frank), 2021
Affordable Art Fair, Jen Dragon Curator, NY, NY September, 2021
Abstract Singularity, Lichtundfire, NY, NY, June, 2021
Small Standing Tall, Joyce Goldstein Gallery, Chatham, NY, May 2021
Real Abstraction: Five Painters, curated by Peter Frank, Online, March, 2021
Yard, Steven Harvey Fine Arts, NY, NY, May, 2019
Creative Art Therapy in the Age of Political Uncertainty, Brooklyn, NY, Sept 2017
Paradise: NY Art Book Fair, SHFAP, Queens, NY, January 2017
Paint, Print, Paper, Carter Burden Gallery, NY, NY, August, 2016
Paradoxes: Despair & Hopefulness, College of New Rochelle, NY, March, 2015
Works on Walls, 2014, Carter Burden Gallery, NY, NY, May, 2014
Visual Aids, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., NY, NY, January, 2013
New Arts Program 23rd Invitational Salon Small Works, Kutztown, PA, May, 2012
East Side: Bill Rice and Friends, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA, July, 2011
While No One is Watching, The Art Gallery, NY, NY, April, 2011
Art for Charity: Creating Critical Linkages, College of New Rochelle, NY, Sep, 2010
Stress, Struggle & Change, College of New Rochelle, NY, January, 2009
NYATA 2006 Juried Art Exhibition, Long Island, NY, March, 2006
The Art of Art Therapists, College of New Rochelle, NY, April, 2005
AIR 25th Anniversary Juried Exhibition, AIR Gallery, NY, NY, October 1997
Sentimentality/Brutality, Hudson Guild, NY, NY, January, 1997
The Lyrical, the Expressionist and the Poetic, Denise Bibro Gallery, NY, NY, January, 1996
The First Decade, La MaMa La Galleria, NYC, 1992
Love Me Tender, Marymount Manhattan College, NY, NY, March, 1986
Art Quest ’86, Parsons Gallery, NY, NY, May, 1986
Just Another Asshole #7, curated by Barbara Ess, Cash/Newhouse Gallery, NYC, 1985
Salon/Saloon, Bill Rice Studio, NY, NY, November, 1985
The Liberty Show, LaMama LaGalleria, NY, NY, July, 1985
Annual Spring Whomps, Claire Dunphy’s Studio, 1984-1989
Museum of the Hudson Highlands 4th Annual Juried Exhibit, Conwall on Hudson, April, 1985
Who’s on First, LaMama LaGalleria, NY, NY, February, 1985
The Great Animal Show, Park Avenue Atrium, NY, NY, September, 1984
The Wonders of Nature, Theatre for the New City, NY, NY, May, 1984
The Natural Site: Landscapes Now, Park Avenue Atrium, NY, NY, February, 1984
Interiors, Women’s Interart Center, NY, NY, November, 1983
First Annual Prize Competition, Provincetown Art Museum, Provincetown, MA, August, 1983
From Inside, On the Waterfront, NY, NY, July, 1983
If Art Be The Love Of Food, Third Street Music School Settlement, NY, NY January, 1983
Animals and Archetypes, PS 122, NY, NY, November, 1982
Zoma Gallery Group Exhibition, NY, NY, August, 1981
Tycho Art, The Interchurch Center, NY, NY, June, 1981
Federation of Staten Island Artists and Craftsmen 3rd Annual Exhibit, SI, NY, August, 1980
27th Anniversary Mamaronect Artists Guild Open Juried Exhibit, Larchmont, NY, May, 1980
Artists Talk on Art, Landmark Gallery, NY, NY, April, 1980
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
International Women’s Arts Festival Award 1975-76, International Women’s Year, February, 1976
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, 10-1-98
The Science and Art of Pain Management: Notes on the Nascent of Surrealist Epiphany, by Joe Vojtko, p. 11, 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
Institute for Expressive Analysis, NY, NY, 9-78 to 12-79
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
Center for Creative Studies, Fine Arts, Detroit, Michigan, 9-68 to 5-69
Alliance Française, Paris, France, Summer, ’69.
University of Michigan, Humanities, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Michigan, 9-66 ton 5-68