Frances Trombly engineers practices with an established dialog of effeminateness, such as knitting and weaving, toward new scrutiny of contemporary routine. Traditional craftsmanship combines with large-scale installation and environmental intervention to breathe new concepts into the backbone of materiality. Borrowing from polarizing arenas such as construction, electrical engineering, and paper waste, Trombly reinvents not only the raw materials of studio practice, but their sanctions in art history and authority in colloquial utilization.
Frances Trombly was born in and lives and works in Miami, Florida. She received her BFA from the Maryland Institute's College of Art, Baltimore (1998). Trombly's work has been shown at Socrates Sculpture Park in New York and has exhibited throughout the US as well as venues abroad. Her work has been featured in publications including Art + Auction, Art in America, and The Miami Herald. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida.