Installation view of solo exhibition The Space Between Looking and Loving: Francesca Fuchs and the de Menil House, The Menil Collection Houston, May 23 - Nov 2, 2025
photo courtesy: Menil Collection/Paul Hester
This exhibition brings together paintings and wallpaintings by the artist with works selected from the Menil Collection, the Menil Archives, ephemera from the de Menil house, and objects from the artist’s personal archives and collection.
Acrylic on canvas over wood panel, acrylic on wall
dimensions variable, painting 37 x 28 inches
The Space Between Looking and Loving: Francesca Fuchs and the de Menil House, The Menil Collection Houston, May 23 - Nov 2, 2025
photo: Thomas R. DuBrock
Matisse Sequence
in solo exhibition The Space Between Looking and Loving: Francesca Fuchs and the de Menil House, The Menil Collection Houston, May 23 - Nov 2, 2025
photo courtesy: Menil Collection/Paul Hester
Acrylic on canvas over wood panel
21 x 17 1/4 inches
on view in solo exhibition The Space Between Looking and Loving: Francesca Fuchs and the de Menil House, The Menil Collection Houston, May 23 - Nov 2, 2025
photo: Thomas R. DuBrock
Installation view 3 of the solo exhibition
The Space Between Looking and Loving: Francesca Fuchs and the de Menil House, The Menil Collection Houston, May 23 - Nov 2 2025
Including the 14th century wood French statue of Virgin and Child and the Duma Mbete Mask
photo courtesy: Menil Collection/Paul Hester
Installation view 4: the felted wall with Koalas, Audio, Sketches and Painting
on view in the solo exhibition The Space Between Looking and Loving: Francesca Fuchs and the de Menil House, The Menil Collection Houston, May 23 - Nov 2 2025
photo courtesy: Menil Collection/Paul Hester
Man listening to conversation between artist Francesca Fuchs and her mother Caroline Fuchs about the remaking in 2017 for her mother of a mistakenly dissolved koala sculpture she had made as a child in 1972
2 min audio
The Space Between Looking and Loving: Francesca Fuchs and the de Menil House, The Menil Collection Houston, May 23 - Nov 2 2025
photo courtesy: Menil Collection/Paul Hester
Installation view 6, on view in the solo exhibition
The Space Between Looking and Loving: Francesca Fuchs and the de Menil House, The Menil Collection Houston, May 23 - Nov 2 2025
photo courtesy: Menil Collection/Paul Hester
Acrylic on canvas over wood panel
15 5/16 x 22 inches
on view in The Space Between Looking and Loving: Francesca Fuchs and the de Menil House, The Menil Collection Houston, May 23 - Nov 2, 2025
photo: Thomas R. DuBrock
on view in the solo exhibition The Space Between Looking and Loving: Francesca Fuchs and the de Menil House, The Menil Collection Houston, May 23 - Nov 2, 2025
photo courtesy: Menil Collection/Paul Hester
Oil on canvas over wood panel, acrylic on wall
Overall dimensions 26 x 25.5 inches, painting only 9.75 x 13 inches
on view in the solo exhibition
Sketches for Three Voices, testsite, Austin
March 5 - April 16, 2023
Photo: Adam Schreiber
Oil on canvas over wood, acrylic on wall
Overall dimensions 28 x 25 inches, painting 9.75 x 13 inches
on view in the solo exhibition
Sketches for Three Voices, testsite, Austin
March 5 - April 16, 2023
Photo: Adam Schreiber
Installation view main wall: 7 paintings on canvas, and acrylic paint on wall
on view in the solo exhibition Francesca Fuchs at The Suburban at the OJAC, 2022
Old Jail Art Center, Albany, Texas
17 September, 2022 - 28 January, 2023
Photo: Kevin Todora
Installation view of solo exhibition Serious and Slightly Funny Things, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont,
Dec 18, 2021 - March 13, 2022
Photo: Paul Hester
Installation view of solo exhibition 'Serious and Slightly Funny Things,' Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont,
Dec 18, 2021 - March 13, 2022
Photo: Paul Hester
Acrylic on canvas over wood panel (18 1/2 x 20 inches) with acrylic paint on wall
Overall dimensions 39 x 60 inches
on view of solo exhibition 'Serious and Slightly Funny Things,' Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont,
Dec 18, 2021 - March 13, 2022
Photo: Paul Hester
Installation view Rock Cradle and Gray Floor, 2022
Acrylic on canvas over wood panel, acrylic and interior latex paint on wall
Dimensions variable, painting: 20 x 27 3/4 inches
Installation view Rock Cradle and Gray Floor in solo exhibition 'how a rock is all about surface,' Inman Gallery, Houston, TX, Jan 15 - March 12, 2022
Photo: Paul Hester
Installation view Rock Cradle and Gray Floor in solo exhibition 'how a rock is all about surface,' Inman Gallery, Houston, TX, Jan 15 - March 12, 2022
Photo: Paul Hester
Acrylic on canvas over wood panel, oil on fired clay
'Kore' 20 x 14 1/2 x 1 in. 'Orange Cup' 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 in
on view in solo exhibition how a rock is all about surface, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX, Jan 15 - March 12, 2022
Photo: Paul Hester
Exterior latex paint on 36 concrete underpass columns
24 feet at the highest columns within an area of 410 x 50 feet
Commissioned by Fresh Arts/City of Houston. on view at 700 N Shepherd, 77008, from October 2020 - May 2021. (destroyed)
photo: Sean Fleming