Phranc
Queer for 50 Years

October 11 – November 22, 2025
Opening Reception: October 11, 4–6pm
Artist talk: November 22, 11am

To celebrate Phranc’s fiftieth anniversary of coming out, Queer for 50 Years opens on October 11th, National Coming Out Day. For this body ofwork, Phranc sculpted boxing shorts, boxers, and socksout of cardboard, kraft paper, and thread, then painted thesurfaces with vivid colors and stripes. As a self-describedmulti-disciplinary “queer artist, Jewish butch lesbianfolksinger and cardboard cobbler” Phranc has devoted herlife to uprooting patriarchal norms and celebratinguncensored self-expression through various creativeendeavors. Showcasing the importance of clothes and undergarments to genderexpression, Queer for 50 years is a continuation of Phranc’s ongoing exploration of herown queer identity as she airs out her dirty laundry.

Artist and musician Phranc uses song, painting and sculpture to champion personal identities and illustrate the struggle, survival, and victory of the queer individual. As aninternationally acclaimed and award winning performer, Phranc has been involved inmultiple punk rock bands in the 1970’s such as Nervous Gender, Catholic Discipline andCastration Squad. Phranc’s work as a visual artist integrates humor with a butch lesbianaesthetic, utilizing her own experiences to inspire her cardboard and Kraft papersculptures. She lives and works in Santa Monica, California and Vancouver, BritishColumbia.This is Phranc’s fourth solo exhibition at Craig Krull Gallery. She has been featured insolo exhibitions at Friesen Gallery, Ketchum, Idaho, The Autry Museum of the AmericanWest, Los Angeles, and most recently at the Institute for the Humanities Gallery at theUniversity of Michigan. Her work has also been included in group exhibitions at ArtCenter College of Design, Columbus Museum of Art, NY, Museum of Contemporary Artat The Pacific Design Center, and the Craft Contemporary.