Keith M. Francis
“Press Kit”
American Beauty
  • Durational Performance & Site-Specific Installations
  • UNTITLED
  • The Relative Ground
  • Welcome!
  • White Fence
  • Border Nation
  • Greed! (Illuminating Apathy)
  • Exploitation
  • Let’s Vote
  • Kinetic & Repurposed Objects
  • TILT
  • The Weights of Choice
  • Democracy: It’s a Game
  • Bibi’s Gambit
  • The Omniscient Frame
  • The Mute Oracle
  • Greenspace
  • Subtleties of Indoctrination III
  • Enough is Enough
  • Game Over (the only winning move is not to play)
  • Violation
  • When I Grow Up...
  • The Gamble of Governance
  • What If? (Confronting the Abyss)
  • Time?
  • A Cautionary Tale
  • We Reap What We Sow
  • Us and Them
  • Who's Watching Who
  • The New Religion
  • Childhood Cowboys
  • Subtleties of Indoctrination
  • Made in China
  • Caste #2
  • JUCHE
  • Public Art & Civic Monuments
  • The Common Thread
  • #146
  • LoveLocks
  • 2004 Democratic National Convention
  • Glittering Patterns
  • #401
  • White Fence
  • Depletion
  • Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Poster
  • The Firefighters
  • Social Print & Mixed Media
  • Sins of my Forefathers
  • Crimson Legacy
  • Share A Coke
  • The Great Narcissist
  • UForge Gallery Exhibition Poster
  • The Invasion
Art/CV
Exhibitions
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Keith Francis
Keith M. Francis
“Press Kit”
American Beauty
  • Durational Performance & Site-Specific Installations
  • UNTITLED
  • The Relative Ground
  • Welcome!
  • White Fence
  • Border Nation
  • Greed! (Illuminating Apathy)
  • Exploitation
  • Let’s Vote
  • Kinetic & Repurposed Objects
  • TILT
  • The Weights of Choice
  • Democracy: It’s a Game
  • Bibi’s Gambit
  • The Omniscient Frame
  • The Mute Oracle
  • Greenspace
  • Subtleties of Indoctrination III
  • Enough is Enough
  • Game Over (the only winning move is not to play)
  • Violation
  • When I Grow Up...
  • The Gamble of Governance
  • What If? (Confronting the Abyss)
  • Time?
  • A Cautionary Tale
  • We Reap What We Sow
  • Us and Them
  • Who's Watching Who
  • The New Religion
  • Childhood Cowboys
  • Subtleties of Indoctrination
  • Made in China
  • Caste #2
  • JUCHE
  • Public Art & Civic Monuments
  • The Common Thread
  • #146
  • LoveLocks
  • 2004 Democratic National Convention
  • Glittering Patterns
  • #401
  • White Fence
  • Depletion
  • Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Poster
  • The Firefighters
  • Social Print & Mixed Media
  • Sins of my Forefathers
  • Crimson Legacy
  • Share A Coke
  • The Great Narcissist
  • UForge Gallery Exhibition Poster
  • The Invasion
Art/CV
Exhibitions
NEWS
Press
HYPERALLERGIC
Contact Me!

Border Nation

2020, LED/Neon, 5 X 64 X 1 in.

public art loan
“Border Nation,” 2020, by Keith Francis. This LED and neon installation measures 5 by 64 inches and consists of four "OPEN" signs in a continuous row. By painting specific letters black—the “OPE” on the first sign and the “N” on the last—the artist manipulates the glowing white text to read as a tension between “OPEN” and “NOPE”. The piece serves as a poignant reflection on community access and societal boundaries during the global pandemic and our individual boundaries.

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The Relative Ground
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Exploitation
2017, (6) Mason Jars with enclosed archival black and white photographs. 6" X 4.25" X 4.25" in (each) | 15.24 X 10.8 X 10.8 cm (each)
Let’s Vote
2014, wood, PVC panel and custom electronics, 17 X 17 X 3 in. (each box)
Welcome!
2016, silk screen on nylon/cotton fabric, hand sewn, 45 X 66 in.
Greed! (Illuminating Apathy)
2023, Found object, LED, 25" X 80" X 5".
White Fence
2020, wood and aluminum base, 100 X 108 X 72 in.
UNTITLED
9' x 6' x 6' Chain-link fencing, stainless steel tubing, barbed wire. Activated by intermittent, unannounced live participants.
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