Celebrating 25 Years in Asheville: Frances Greenberg

Country Road, pastels, 2010, 13.75" x 10.75"

Frances Greenberg displayed early signs of artistic accomplishment when, at the age of four, she created a mural of nudes in crayon on her bedroom wall. She continued her informal training by practicing drawing on coasters at the bar in her father's New Jersey restaurant. She received her first real recognition by getting caught doing caricatures of her seventh grade teachers.

Included in her academic credits are The New York Institute of Technology, The New School and New York University. She holds an MFA in painting from The George Washington University. She has taken many painting workshops, studying with, among others, Doug Dawson, Margaret Dyer, and Maggie Price.

Greenberg has shown in numerous galleries and participated in major art fairs for thirty years. She is retired from the show circuit and currently, lives in Asheville, NC where she paints in oils and pastels. Her subject matter varies from portraits and figures to landscapes, both plein aire and imagined. She conducts open-studio live portrait and figure sessions for other artists and is a member of the Appalachian Pastel Society and the Portrait Society of America.