Barbara Frank

Barbara Frank is a Washington, DC, native who tells stories with her work using representational and abstract imagery. Her subject matter includes natural disasters, allegorical landscapes, dreams, biblical references, and expressive marks themselves. Frank’s paintings and drawings are in private and public collections. They have been exhibited in local, national, and international galleries and museums, including the Bronx Museum, Delaware Art Museum, The American University Museum, Richmond Museum of Art, Shepherd University, Northern Virginia Community College, Salem College, the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum, and the University of Maryland.

Frank’s awards include resident fellowships at the MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and Hilai Art Center in the Negev Desert. She is an awardee of the prestigious Franz and Virginia Bader Foundation and is known for her leadership in the Feminist Art Movement in the 1970s and 1980s. Her papers are part of the Smithsonian Museum Archives of American Art.