Frances ‘Marlene Campbell’ Guichard
Frances Guichard, also known as the artist Marlene Campbell, is co-owner of Gallery Guichard fine art gallery, the Guichard Project and nonprofit, Building Community Foundation Inc.
She has been an artist and gallerist for 21 years. After 20 years of experience in government, Frances Guichard transitioned into the art business 20 years ago with her husband Andre Guichard and currently operates as Gallery Guichard’s business manager. With a keen attention to detail, Frances provides artful experiences to art visionaries and collectors. She specializes in aligning local and international artists’ works with collectors looking for a specific piece.
As a former co-curator and moderator for the Bombay Sapphire’s Artisan Series, she and her husband handled coordinating and judging over 6,000 art submissions. She along with her husband Andre created an international bridge of the African Diaspora that inspires global talent and exposes local patrons to art from Senegal, South Africa, Brazil, Cuba, Columbia, Nigeria, Egypt, Tanzania, Zanzibar, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Mauritius, France and the Caribbean Islands.
Influenced by her travels and her husband, Frances began painting in 2004 and is also known as the artist Marlene Campbell. Her works have been shown in and bought by corporate collections and important private collections worldwide. Her works can also be found in the collection of the prestigious international law firms Riley Safer Holmes, Kirkland & Ellis LLP and Sidley Austin LLP and the President’s office of United Airlines. Her Great Migration series was shown in the, One Two Pru lobby in downtown Chicago. Frances has displayed and sold at Scope Miami Beach during Art Basel, Miami. She is also collected locally and internationally. Her artwork is cataloged in the Thomas J. Watson Library located in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and her art can be found as a resident artist at Gallery Guichard Fine Art Gallery in Chicago.
She serves on the Board of Trustees of Court Theater at the University of Chicago, Women on Top of Their Game, Building Brighter Futures and is a member of the Lake Shore Chapter of The Links Incorporated and Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated.
Her interests are scuba diving, hiking, dancing and biking.
