CFarran
Monochromist & Innovateur
Farran is a contemporary American artist and practitioner of Monochromism, a practice and philosophy in which color serves as both subject and organizing system. Through modular compositions, repetition, and subtle variation, his works explore how unity can persist across fragmentation and how perception responds to sustained engagement with a single hue.
The Farran Pink Works comprises multiple series, including Palm Springs Pink and Perpignan Pink, each produced through a consistent visual and structural approach. While select pigments are sourced from organic materials, the primary focus is on the visual and perceptual experience of monochrome as field, system, and structure.
Residency
Over the course of five to six years, Farran undertook a self-funded, independent residency—one without institutional walls. His home became a laboratory, with spaces partitioned for drying experiments, pigment reduction, and the development of natural color systems composed entirely of organic materials.
This period was defined by patience and repetition. Working seasonally and experimentally, Farran tested how color behaves over time—how it absorbs, cures, shifts, and endures. What emerged was not only a proprietary pigment practice, but a philosophy.
He describes this approach as monochrome living among the color: a process of stripping away excess to allow a single frequency to fully inhabit space. The work does not decorate color—it brings it to life.
This residency laid the foundation for Palm Springs Pink, Perpignan Pink, and International Farran Pink—each rooted in place, ecology, and restraint, and each carrying the quiet evidence of lived time.
