BLACK WINDOW
Oil on canvas, 22” x 22”, 2022
Frances Campani is a painter and an architect. Human figures, landscape and still life are the vehicles used by Campani to structure compositions in painting and drawing. “I seek to reveal the essential in in my work.”
She studied painting at the Art Students’ League in NYC and at the Scuola Statale d’Arte in Siena, Italy, as well as apprenticing to the late painter Mary Rose Palau of Northport, L.I. She received her B.A. in Art History and History from SUNY Stony Brook and her Master of Architecture from Columbia University G.S.A.P.P.
Campani retired as Associate Professor of Architecture at NYIT in 2026. She has taught Design Studios at all levels and various drawing classes both at NYIT and Columbia University GSAPP.
Campani is a registered architect. Most recently she is a partner in Campani and Schwarting Architects, with Jon Michael Schwarting, in Port Jefferson, NY. That collaboration has been distinguished through awards for affordable housing solutions and mixed-use projects. The firm currently works with a number of civic and non-profit groups to improve public space and buildings in their communities. They have also worked on the rescue and reconstruction of the Aluminaire House (Kocher and Frey, 1931) and recently published a book on the history and significance of the house.
Campani sees her work in painting and architecture as equally important and mutually sustaining.