About Frances

Franny Miculis is a visual and mixed media artist based in New York City. She began making art as soon as she could hold a brush, and over the past few years her practice has grown from sketchbook experiments into large-scale paintings, sculptural assemblages, and layered photographic collages.

Her work moves between painting, collage, photography, and fiber, often layering found materials — torn paper, yarn, beads, printed photographs — with bold color and expressive mark-making. Faces recur throughout her pieces: watching, fragmenting, and reassembling, they are her way of asking what it means to grow up, to grieve, and to thrive.

Franny is drawn to the tension between control and accident — the moment a planned composition is interrupted by a tear, a spill, or an unexpected texture. Her recent work explores identity, memory, and the physical evidence of making.

Two things feed the work: what she sees around her — the street, the people, the discarded objects she picks up — and the ideas that arrive in her mind, sometimes fully formed, sometimes as a feeling she has to work out by hand. She paints what she notices and what she imagines, often in the same piece.

She is also shaped by the other young artists around her. Franny has collaborated and exchanged ideas with artists from all over the world, and that back-and-forth — different places, materials, and ways of seeing — feeds directly into her work.

Franny is dyslexic. She thinks first in images, so making a picture is how she works something out — the work comes before the words, and often says more than they can.

Alongside her own practice, she has studied at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, and at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia.