Upper West Side pop-up gallery North of History welcomes artist Francie Bishop Good’s exhibition “Comus” – featuring a total of 112 works – on September 7th, 2018. The Comus exhibit, which comes directly from the Coral Springs Museum where it is currently on view after a national museum tour, compresses Bishop-Good’s work from the past 20 years, creating a visual time capsule experience for the viewer. Through high school yearbooks – a personal yet universal medium – Comus examines societal shifts and encourages the viewer to reflect on how life has changed over three generations.
Bishop-Good draws inspiration from her childhood memories, her photographs — which depict women in complex ages, races, and socioeconomic conditions — and her drawings and paintings, which transcend time, blurring social and personal boundaries. Adding reflective layers of painterly and collage elements, Bishop Good’s illuminated canvases create stirring remembrances and artfully depict cross-generational ties through dramatic framing and lighting. The Los Angeles Times raves, “Francie Bishop Good takes the art form a step further by incorporating her mother’s high school yearbook and her own in a mixed media collection of pieces.”
Museum director Bonnie Clearwater notes Comus’s ability to “connect with the everyday viewer because of its exploration of the mother-child relationship,” and observes Bishop Good’s creative synthetization of two mediums, digital photography and painting. “She is remarkable in her ability to learn from the works she collects as well as her practice as an artist,” Clearwater adds.
As the sixth venue to host Comus, the Gene Kaufman-owned gallery will showcase Bishop Good’s mesmerizing pieces bridging the gap between generations. The exhibit runs through September 30th. Free and open to the Public.
