"I did this collection to help people have healthier lives and relation- ships. Women's struggles have remained constant from Biblical times ... (but) families have been changing, breaking up, people have second and third marriages. "Portrait of a Family"

"Broken Dreams", shows this. It actually turns on an axis, showing the course of the relationship. It came out of a broken marriage that I went through," Froman said.

This kind of personal detail and desire to instruct is a constant in Froman's work. "Portrait of a Family ..." is a sculpture in three parts, the first showing a happy and whole family, enjoying the pleasures of domesticity; the second showing them in the throes of divorce; the 3rd showing a partial reconciliation as grandparents come to care for the children and parents part ways.

In these figures, friends and relatives as well as cultural archetypes and national trends are visible. "Portrait..." deals with what Froman feels is a paradigm shift in the nature of the family on the most huma- nist, most detailed level, and the effect is powerful.

All of her sculptures show the same roots in personal experience, the same startling realism. The effect is even more pronounced in her acrylic work - figures of crystalline beauty and stark grace that seem to shine from within while maintaining a life like quality.

In addition to the romantic images of her series, "The Art of Loving," Froman has also done work based on the Holocaust and the Bible. Her nine- foot bronze sculpture "Survival" is dedicated to the survivors of World War II. The piece, in smaller form, resides in the collection of Time Warner and Radcliffe College.