Frances Trombly: Paintings

Girls’ Club presents its first solo exhibition, Frances Trombly: Paintings, new works by the Miami artist Frances Trombly. Commissioned expressly for Girls’ Club’s exhibition space located in downtown Fort Lauderdale, Paintings is a timely presentation of previously un-exhibited works by the artist.

Expanding upon the artist’s practice of hand-crafting everyday items from fiber and displaying them to initially deceive and then reward ordinary perception, Trombly’s Paintings invite close attention to the minutiae of their own making. Paintings inhabit the realm of the micro - the subtly inflected tactile surfaces of her canvases - but they initiate questions in the macro - a provocation to the viewer to assess the “value” of contemporary art objects.

How is value in art defined? Does greater labor equal greater value? Are these even paintings that we are looking at? Trombly herself states, “These new sculptures make no effort to create narratives, they merely offer the viewer a glimpse into the hard-working hands of the artist.” Paintings is a thought-provoking project by a challenging emerging artist.