CY FRIED
Photo Aquatints and New Paintings
May 11 - 30, 2001
The Driskel Gallery at the Schoolhouse Center for Art & Design is pleased to present the new work of Cy Fried.
Cy Fried’s main interest is in creating visual excitement through the use of color. He believes that artistic situations are ever present, and it is up to the artist/photographer to reveal them. The scope of art in photography is only limited by the photographer’s imagination and the technical use of his equipment.
Cy has worked in many aspects of photography before working in the time-honored “gum” technique, which produces one of a kind prints. This century-old process interprets the impressionistic qualities for which Cy has been striving. His goal is toward the painterly look of the Impressionist painters and the Japanese printmakers of the 19th century. Fried’s new paintings allow him to explore these techniques on a larger scale and with greater freedom.
Cy Fried’s work is in the permanent collection of the Duxbury Museum, the Provincetown Art Association, the Cape Museum, the Heritage Museum, and in many private collections.
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| CY FRIED- Photo Aquatints
May 12-31, 2000
In the hands of Cy Fried, photo aquatinting is used to create
lyrical still-lifes, landscapes and nude studies, as well as bold
abstractions. His work has recently become more painterly. As his
American predecessors of the early 20th century in the Steiglitz group
of photographers, notably Frank Eugene and George Seeley, Fried obscures the distinction between photography, painting and printmaking. Many of his pictures evoke the qualities of Impressionist and Japanese inspired painting of the 19th century, while still keeping a fresh, often humorous and contemporary look and appeal. Fried's work is in the permanent collection of the Duxbry Museum, The
Provincetown art association, the Cape Museum, the Heritage Museum, and in many private collections. |
