Franki Farb is a New York–based visual artist working across textiles, photo, video, installation, and community-based art experiences to celebrate queer joy, honor personal loss, and question how acts of ritual, play, and storytelling can transform grief into connection.
Their work lives in the grief and the glitter—a life stitched from celebration and loss. Using materials that are intimate and familiar, Franki transforms artifacts of comfort and chaos into spaces for reflection and care. Franki approaches creation, and life itself, with humor and softness, believing that gentleness is a form of resistance. Guided by emotion, their choice of medium is instinctive. The things they make are extensions of self and spirit—soft monuments to love, loss, and the absurdity of being alive.
Franki makes art to honor what is fleeting: a night that turns into a sunrise, a mother’s gift that grows thin with wear, a feeling of euphoria and connection sweating under neon lights. They preserve ephemera not to trap it, but to acknowledge that it mattered. At the center is play—imagination as daily practice, imagination as rebellion. They build spaces where people can gather, doodle, laugh, cry, make a mess, and see each other. Healing happens in that overlap.
Collaboration is essential to Franki’s practice, which blurs the line between personal and communal healing. They hope for viewers to feel reflective yet held, reminded that even in darkness there is light, and that our inner child, though sometimes buried, is always waiting to play again. Their work asks: How do we carry the past without letting it hurt us? How do we stay tender in a world that hardens us? How can art be a shelter, a playground, a memorial, a release?
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