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Artist's
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Drawn from imagination, photography, and personal observation, my
paintings reflect an interest in art as an expressive response to
experience. I use the simple materials of brush, ink, watercolor, and
paper. My work expresses my preoccupations with friends and family,
history, geography, and a nagging sense of dread. For me, the image
and its creation are of overriding concern. Formal issues, craft, and
materials are essential as the means to this end, but it is the image
itself that is significant and that sustains my interest.
Representational painting, like a photograph or a documentary film,
does not depict objective reality, but rather is a response to the
world and a fiction. My paintings offer the viewer a place within the
fiction of the image. The works address this in various ways: some
paintings directly reference photography; if the image purports to be
a photograph, then we are made to be the photographer. Other works
include the peculiarities of vision: changes of focus, the effects of
glare, or the fleeting appearance of doubled images, a phenomenon of
sight with two eyes. Still other paintings merely place the viewer in
a particular location through arrangements of foreground or near
objects.
All these devices point to ourselves and place us, as viewers, in the
location depicted, albeit not within the picture’s frame. They
contribute to making the image something of consequence, something
that can be invested with a bit of the urgency of living experience. |
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Education: |
The School of
the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota |
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Exhibitions: |
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2008 |
Lovely in the
Distance, Solo Show, Zg
Gallery, Chicago, IL (read
review) |
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2007 |
Devils & Beasts,
Art Center of Highland Park, IL
Summer Show, Zg
Gallery, Chicago, IL
The Exquisite Snake,
Mary and
Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL
Group, Zg
Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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2006 |
Dark and
Light: Recent Works by Bill Frederick, Noyes Cultural Arts Center,
Evanston, IL |
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2005 |
A Feast for
the Senses,
Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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2003 |
Strictly
Watercolor,
Gallery
Arcadia, Grand Rapids, MI |
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2001 |
The Perfect
Chair,
Architech
Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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2000 |
Small Works,
Gallery Arcadia, Grand Rapids, MI |
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1998 |
What We Have
Seen,
Gallery
Arcadia, Grand Rapids, MI
Parallel Visions,
Dittmar
Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL |
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1994 |
Bill Frederick:
Recent Drawings,
Roger Ramsay Gallery, Chicago, IL
Work Books:
Journals & Journeys,
Columbia
College Center for Book & Paper Arts, Chicago, IL |
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1993 |
Up and Coming,
Roger Ramsay Gallery,
Chicago, IL |
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1992 |
The Alchemic
Image,
Studio Three, Chicago, IL |
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1990 |
The Chicago
Show,
Chicago
Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
The
Closed Universe,
Fontana Art
Emporium, Shelbyville, MI
The
Prairie, The Lake, and The City,
Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL |
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Bibliography: |
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1998 |
The Paper, "The Conviction of Sight"
by Conrad Bakker, Grand Rapids,
MI
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1994 |
Chicago Sun-Times,
"Chicago
Skyway Bridge,"
Jan. 7,
1994
Gay Chicago Magazine, "Altered
States," by Justin H. Sunward, Feb. 3, 1994
Chicago Reader, "Chicago
Skyway Bridge,"
Jan.
14, 1994 |
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1990 |
Evanston Review,
"Prairie, Lake, City: A Wide Range of Art,"
Michael Bonesteel, March 15, 1990
Kalamazoo Gazette, "Location & Context of Art May Color
Interpretation,"
by Mark Maher, 8/23/90 |
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Selected collections: |
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Mary and
Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL
Grand
Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI
Metropolitan Hospital, Grand Rapids, MI
Winston and
Strawn, New York, NY
ATS Media, Chicago, IL
Audrey Niffenegger,
Chicago, IL |
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