Fran Beallor, SELF 2020: 11 March, 5x7” pencil on 9x12" toned paper

Free and Open to the Public | Hosted on Zoom

Moderator: Fran Beallor, Panelists: Tracey Eller, James Rauchman

About this Program: Three contemporary artists, Tracey Eller, James Rauchman and Fran Beallor have created significant bodies of emotionally revealing self-portraits. They each have a different psychological approach, using three different media: photography, painting and drawing. Join us for a fascinating look into the Psychology of Self-Portraiture.

Moderator: Fran Beallor

Fran Beallor is excited about her upcoming Solo Exhibition at El Barrio’s Artspace PS 109 in East Harlem, NYC in September 2022. She will show her 366 self portraits from 2020, and other examples of her ongoing series, SELF. Hung in 12 large month blocks, SELF 2020 will be on view along with examples from the prior years' series plus some of Beallor’s larger self-portrait paintings as well.

Beallor has been the subject of radio, in-print and online interviews, one upcoming in Art Spiel in conjunction with her Solo Show. Feature articles and reviews have also appeared in the American Arts Quarterly, American Artist Magazine, and others. In 2020, she won the Morgan Library and Museum’s online Portrait contest with her painting, Circle Dance. She has also received a Greenshields Grant for Realist Art.