Francine Funke

Francine Funke is a multifaceted artist whose artwork includes mixed media archival pigment ink on canvas and paper, acrylic paintings, collage, monoprints, photography and installations. Her studio is located in Cedar Park, Texas.

Funke has collaborated with many private collectors, art consultants, architects, museums and galleries nationwide. After a world-wide search, her work was chosen to be purchased by Zaha Hadid Architects for their magnificent residential tower, “One Thousand Museum” in Miami, Florida. Her work is installed in the Hyatt Centric Hotel in Austin, the “W” Hotel Residences in Hollywood, CA, and recently, working with Art Consultants, Art+Artisans, Austin, she was commissioned to create a 5-panel, 25 foot mural, entitled, Serape Spirit for a major corporation’s new headquarters in the Dallas, Texas area.

Her large, comprehensive, solo exhibition, entitled, Fantastical Flora, was recently held at the historic “Old Bakery” and Emporium Art Gallery on Congress Ave, Austin. Other Texas exhibitions include Craighead Green Gallery in Dallas, Houston Center for Photography, Art on 5th Gallery, Austin, the People’s Gallery in Austin City Hall, The Other Art Fair in Dallas, Women and Their Work, Austin, Warden Art Agency, Austin, and the Mc Kinney Performing Arts Center. Funke has also participated in Big Medium’s Austin Studio Tours multiple times.

In addition, her work has been purchased by healthcare facilities such as MD Anderson in Houston, Stamford Hospital, and The Tully Health Center, both in Connecticut. Public space commissions include a 9ft mural for the Roger’s School media center in Stamford, CT. Funke has had solo and group exhibitions in numerous galleries, and solo installations in major museums. They include her massive, three part window installation entitled, Through the Grass Darkly, which was shown in the Mixed Greens Gallery in Chelsea, New York City. Her mixed media on canvas, 25 foot installation, Plumes, which was part of her Fire Works Series, traveled to the Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Sacred Heart University, Stamford Center for the Arts, and the Russell Senate Rotunda on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.

Funke’s artwork has been in exhibitions curated by Bill Arning, former director of the Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Ann Coffin, founder of the International Print Center in New York City, and most recently by Lisa Volpe, Associate Curator, Photography, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, for the Houston Center for Photography’s annual show. And her earlier “pop-up” Chair sculptures, called Dimensional Drawings, were displayed in all five Tiffany and Company Windows on Fifth Avenue in New York City.