Frances Trombly

Trombly uses labor-intensive processes such as weaving, embroidering, and cross-stitching to fabricate such mundane objects as cardboard boxes, notebook papers, and mops. The patterning of horizontal and vertical lines are similar to the layering that develops in a weaving. These lines expose the printing process revealing each layer printed. Yet, keeping an overlap in which twill is created. The artist’s hope is that the print is an emphasis on process, production and the making. As painstakingly crafted copies of disposable objects, Trombly’s work questions what makes an object worth collecting or displaying, and her traditionally “female” crafts reference issues of domestic labor and feminism.

Frances Trombly (b. 1976 Miami, FL, USA) is based in Miami, FL, United States. She received a Bachelors of Fine Arts from Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, including a solo project Frances Trombly: Over and Under at Locust Projects, Miami; Americana: Formalizing Craft at the Perez Art Museum Miami and united states at the The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT.

Her work has been featured in various publications including The New York Times, Art Papers, Sculpture Magazine, Surface Design Journal, and The Los Angeles Times. Trombly’s work is in the permanent collection of the Perez Art Museum, Miami and NSU Art Museum, Ft. Lauderdale, among others.

She co-directs Dimensions Variable, an exhibition space in Miami, Florida. The artist is represented by Emerson Dorsch, Miami, FL and Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA