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‘Sketches for 3 Voices at testsite, Austin,’ Lauren Moya Ford, Glasstire.com, April 5, 2023
‘Looking Back on 2022: a Conversation with Francesca Fuchs,’ Caleb Bell, Glasstire.com, Dec 24, 2022
‘Francesca Fuchs Tenderly Renders the Small and Private,’ Lauren Moya Ford, Hyperallergic, Feb 21, 2022
‘Creating Friction and Changing Rhythms: Francesca Fuchs at the Art Museum of Southeast Texas and Inman Gallery,’ Sarah Ridley, Glasstire, Feb 25, 2022
#1 ‘Top Five: December 16, 2021’ #1 Serious and Slightly Funny Things, Glasstire, December 16, 2021
‘New public art in Houston brings cheer to a somber year,’ Molly Glentzer, Houston Chonicle, December 15, 2020 online; December 21, 2020 print. (PDF)
‘Le Systeme des Objets: Francesca Fuchs’ Painting and Mugs at Talley Dunn Gallery,’ Michael Frank Blair, Glasstire, June 13, 2020
‘Low-key Fuchs named 2018 Texas Artist of the Year,’ Molly Glentzer, Houston Chronicle, March 26, 2018 (PDF)
‘Painting from Memory’, Chris Becker, HoustonCityBook, August 2018 (PDF)
'Show Up: Francesca Fuchs,' Casey Gregory, Arts and Culture, Aug 2018 (PDF)
'Lawndale Art Center gets a minimalist makeover,' Molly Glentzer, Houston Chronicle, Jan 2018
'Francesca Fuchs:(Re)Collection,' Rachel Hooper, Art Ltd, Nov/Dec 2013 (PDF)
'Varieties of Abstraction: Lisa Cooley Fine Art,' Roberta Smith, New York Times, Aug 5, 2010 (PDF)
'Francesca Fuchs: Losing the Edge,' Michael Bise, Glasstire.com, Feb 2009
'Francesca Fuchs: Perspectives 155,' Michelle White, Artlies #54 (Summer 2007) (PDF)
'Conversation on Painting,' Paola Morsiani, Artlies #47, Summer 2005
'Breast in Show,' Kelly Klaasmeyer, Houston Press, Sep/22/2005 (Mom @ Texas Gallery)
'Fusion Art,' Kelly Klaasmeyer, Houston Press, 3/27/2003 (Portrait Paintings @ Texas Gallery)
'Shelf life,' Shaila Dewan, Houston Press, 12/03/1998 (Serenade and other works @ Texas Gallery)
F's paintings of the objects children make are drawn from her own family stories, and perhaps to think of them alongside the Paintings of Paintings makes a certain kind of sense: there are many different reasons we give value to things. To paint other forgotten paintings and to paint modest objects means that F's new paintings ask questions of what painting actually does, how we live with it, and why.
- Laura August, She Lives with Objects, 2018
She’s showing us what we actually view, day in, day out. And she’s doing it without explanation. There are no additives here, there’s certainly no flash. It is what it is. (...) This directness should be admired. It reminds me of the thrill I get when I see a Mexican restaurant called “Taco”, or an office supply store called “Office Supply Store.” These frank offerings all feel as tender as a simple handshake.
- Robyn O’Neil, October 9, 2012, ‘Francesca Fuchs: Paintings of Paintings,’ Glasstire.com
Francesca Fuchs makes small, wonderfully wan renditions of even smaller snapshots and drawings, including mats, frames and those frames’ shadows, that seem to be fading into the mist, toward abstraction.
- Roberta Smith, Aug 5 2010, The New York Times, Varieties of Abstraction
In other words, questions about objectivity and the artist’s emotive distance in terms of representation become even clearer when she subjectively, selectively and deliberately pushes around paint. As a result, Fuchs confidently proves, as in past work, that the iconicity of traditional notions of womanhood and its association with the home are still hanging around in all their banal and disquieting splendor. (....) Fuchs’ version is deadpan and unapologetically untidy.
- Michelle White, Artlies#54, Francesca Fuchs: Perspectives 155