About Vivo Artist Erica Danielle Franz

Franz grew up in Hastings-on-Hudson, NY. In 2000 she graduated from Cornell with a BS, and shortly afterwards re-located to Maui. There in 2003 she launched The Painted Seahorse Studio. She works in ink, acrylic and watercolor, often integrating spray paint, computer graphics and collage in order to achieve a lush and vivid prose. Franz usually begins with an animal, figure or landscape and then departs from the subject to explore color, edge, shape and texture on a wide variety of surfaces: canvases, murals, furniture, boats and cars. Franz’s work is widely commissioned and may be found in the permanent collections of the following Hawaiian institutions: The Ritz-Carlton, Kaiser Permanente hospitals, The Westin Maui, Kaanapali Marriott, Jean-Michel Cousteau’s Ambassadors of the Environment, and Starwood Resorts. For more about Franz link to http://www.paintedseahorse.com/.