Francesca Sundsten Biography and Wiki
Francesca Sundsten was a concurrent American artist. She implemented traditional strategies even as exploring elements of composition, palette, and minor abstractions of space and paint to create art work and illustrations which were described with the aid of the Seattle Times as “calling to mind the Old Masters” with a “exceptionally surrealist sensibility.”
Francesca Sundsten Age and Birthday
Francesca was born in Hemet, California in the United States in 1960. However, the exact date of birth of the American Artist is not yet known. She died on 9th March 2019 with the age of 58-59 years old.
Francesca Sundsten Bill Rieflin
Sundsten was married to the King Crimson drummer Bill Rieflin who also died at the age of 59 from cancer on 24th March 2020. More details about her marriage has not been available in the public making it difficult to establish whether they had children or not.
Francesca Sundsten paintings
Sundsten had interest in paintings from a very young age. She started painting officially in her early 20s and in 1984, she attended the San Francisco Art Institute. She focused on representational painting, a tag that was not encouraged in her undergraduate program. After having a view on Odd Nedrum presentation at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, she traveled to his place in order to gain more experience though learning from him.
Francesca Sundsten Art/Artist
After leaning with the Swedish-born, Norwegian Figurative Painters Odd Nerdrum, Francesca came back to the Art Institute that followed her informal internship, she spent two years “defending the unpopular direction,” and attained a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1987. Later in 1990, she was awarded a Masters of Fine Arts degree from Stanford University.
Francesca had independent performances at the Grover or Thurston Galleries, Davidson Galleries, Linda Warren Gallery, Diane Nelson Fine Art, Olga Dollar Gallery, and Parker/Zinc Gallery, Hall Spassov Gallery and she now works with the permanent collections of the Tacoma Art Museum, Microsoft, and the University of Washington Medical Center.
In a re considerations of Sundsten’s 2003 exhibit of drawings and paintings at the Davidson Galleries, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer revealed that “Francesca’s fine paintings and mastery of realism hides in haze. Her quirky, starkly confrontational imagery doesn’t disturb as much as it questions. The characters hang in confused naivete, pondering, ‘How did I get here?”
Of her 2013 exhibit creatures at the Grover/Thurston Galleries, art critic Michael Upchurch revealed “Throughout “Creatures,”Sundsten dazzling painterly facility makes her fantastical subjects feel preposterously plausible.” Despite being a student of arts, she also became a teacher at Stanford University. the Pratt Institute and Cornish College of Arts.
Francesca Sundsten Death
On August 7, 2019, it was announced that Francesca passed away due to lymphoma complications and she died on 9th March 2019. Lymphoma is a kind of cancer that initiates in infection-fighting cells of the immune system called lymphocytes. The cells are usually in the lymph nodes, thymus, spleen, bone marrow and other critical parts of the body. when an individual has lymphoma, lymphocytes changes and grow out of control.
Francesca Sundsten Obit
Her worked to presents a solo tone, quality, and vision, extending the visible world of Crimson’s aural one. This has loomed on KC tour booklets and tour posters – including the 2019 50th Anniversary poster. The Portray for the Rieflin/Fripp/Gunn CD ‘The Repercussions of Angelic Behavior’ is also hers – under the nom de brosse C.W. House.
She left behind a bereft husband and two cats who seem to have gotten over it a little too soon. Her death as a painter is a loss of a unique vision and a loss for anyone who finds value in her work. To those who know her, it is a tragedy beyond measure.
Frequently Asked Questions about Francesca Sundsten
Who is Francesca Sundsten?
Francesca Sundsten was a concurrent American artist. She implemented traditional strategies even as exploring elements of composition, palette, and minor abstractions of space and paint to create art work and illustrations which were described with the aid of the Seattle Times as “calling to mind the Old Masters” with a “exceptionally surrealist sensibility.”
How old is Francesca Sundsten?
Francesca was born in Hemet, California in the United States in 1960. However, the exact date of birth of the American Artist is not yet known. She died on 9th March 2019 with the age of 58-59 years old.
Is Francesca Sundsten Married?
Sundsten was married to the King Crimson drummer Bill Rieflin who also died at the age of 59 from cancer on 24th March 2020. More details about her marriage has not been available in the public making it difficult to establish whether they had children or not.
Is Francesca Sundsten dead or alive?
Francesca passed away due to lymphoma complications on 9th March 2019. Lymphoma is a kind of cancer that initiates in infection-fighting cells of the immune system called lymphocytes. The cells are usually in the lymph nodes, thymus, spleen, bone marrow and other critical parts of the body. when an individual has lymphoma, lymphocytes changes and grow out of control.
Francesca Sundsten Twitter
Artwork by Francesca Sundsten for King Crimson’s ‘Radical Action To Unseat The Hold Of Monkey Mind’ See more: https://t.co/a7Mfziz4LC pic.twitter.com/2R3boskNFU
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