Barbara Friedman New Paintings Art Exhibit February 23, 2010

New Paintings

February 23- March 18, 2010

Reception Tuesday, February 23, 5-7 pm

Peter Fingesten Gallery at Pace University Downtown campus

1 Pace Plaza (East of City Hall, corner of Park Row and Nassau)

Pace University, New York, NY

Hours: Monday-Wednesday, Saturday, 12-4.



New York, February 19, 2010 -- The Peter Fingesten Gallery at Pace University presents a solo exhibition by Barbara Friedman, an award winning painter who most recently has had solo exhibitions at Michael Steinberg Fine Art (New York City) in 2009 and 2007; Van Brunt Gallery (Beacon, NY) and Ober Gallery (Kent, Connecticut), both in 2008; and Paul Sharpe Contemporary Art (New York City) in 2006.



An opening reception is Tuesday, February 23 at 5pm at the Fingesten Gallery, which is reached through the front entrance of Pace’s downtown Manhattan campus at 1 Pace Plaza, at the corner of Park Row and Spruce Street, just east of City Hall. The exhibition runs through March 18. The gallery is open from noon to 4 pm Monday through Wednesday, and Saturday.



Friedman is a professor of art at Pace University who has been teaching at the school since 1983. Her new work, an outgrowth of a recent sabbatical, stays true to her use of haunting colors and textures, in this case often showing ambiguous heads and torsos of people who appear to be timeless, placeless, and lost.



“Proust updated”



The art critic Lilly Wei has said that Friedman’s paintings are “Proust updated. Lovely, poetic, formally inventive….”



Friedman explains on Pace’s Fine Arts department website that in previous works she has painted “lost places that I re-discover through the paint. That means that I find these places through the process of painting itself.” Friedman goes on to say that these figurative paintings are “as much about time as they are about place. They examine the vagueness and ambiguity of appearances and the need to continually renegotiate one’s bearings.”



The current work began with portraits done as she thought they might appear to someone losing their eyesight, as her aging mother is – “recognizable, but also slipping away.”



Honors and reviews



Friedman has won a number of competitive awards and grants including residencies at Yaddo and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her work has twice been chosen for the annual “New American Paintings” publication (2007, 2010). Born in New York City, where she lives and works, she holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from the University of California - Berkeley.



Earlier solo exhibitions include the Painting Center, Art Resources Transfer, Queens Museum, and White Columns (all New York City); Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Cleveland State University, Dana Wright Gallery in San Francisco, and the Roanoke Museum of Fine Arts in Roanoke, Virginia.



Reviews of her work have appeared in the New York Times, the New York Sun, The Irish Times, Newsday, Art in America, ARTS Magazine, Artweek, Westdeutsche Zeitung, and artcritical.com. Her website is at www.BarbaraFreidmanPaintings.com.



About Pace University



An increasing presence in the downtown Manhattan cultural scene, for 103 years Pace University has produced thinking professionals by providing high quality education for the professions on a firm base of liberal learning amid the advantages of the New York metropolitan area. A private university, Pace has campuses in New York City and Westchester County, New York, enrolling nearly 13,000 students in bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral programs in its Lubin School of Business, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, Lienhard School of Nursing, School of Education, School of Law, and Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems. www.pace.edu

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