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Rose Freymuth-Frazier Art

American, b. 1977

Rose Freymuth-Frazier was born and raised in Nevada City, California - a small gold rush town in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. She attended Interlochen Arts Academy, a private boarding arts high school in northern Michigan. Upon graduation she was awarded a scholarship to study theatre at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City. After completing her training, and a couple of years spent in Hollywood, (which included a stint on a campy, nighttime teen soap opera), Freymuth-Frazier turned her attention to her other interest - figurative oil painting.

Seeking rigorous, technical training that most schools could not offer, she returned to New York City and studied for two years at the Art Students League. After taking a master class at the New York Academy of Art with Steven Assael, she continued her studies in a tradition common to painters of the past, through full-time apprenticeship. Her first apprenticeship was for two years under Assael in his New York City studio and her second was with Odd Nerdrum in Norway, at his farm and studio on the North Sea.

References from a broad swath of art history can be found in Freymuth-Frazier’s solitary subjects. Influences range from Balthus’s discomforting depictions of preadolescence, and the queen of Kitsch, Margaret Keane’s “Big Eyed” children and animals, to the heavy chiaroscuro and technical rigor of Caravaggio and Rembrandt. This unique combination of classicism and pulp results in something of a hybrid between Lowbrow esthetic and Old Master technique.

Freymuth-Frazier’s work has been exhibited internationally with galleries in Barcelona, Sydney, Amsterdam and across the United States from New York City and Chicago to Seattle and Los Angeles. Her work can be found in private collections internationally, including The Seven Bridges Foundation in Connecticut and the John and Diane Marek Collection in Tennessee. She has received attention and reviews from numerous publications including Playboy Magazine, Ms. Magazine, ArtNews, Hi-Fructose Magazine, Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, The Chicago Tribune, Art Papers, American Artist Magazine and The Huffington Post.

In October 2015, her work was included in Cavalier Galleries extraordinary survey of American realist works, "American Realism: Past to Present", in New York City. Freymuth-Frazier is represented by Cavalier Galleries in New York City, Connecticut and Nantucket and Victor Armendariz Gallery in Chicago. She lives and paints in New York City.

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Origin Story - Original Oil Painting w/ Setting Sun Reflecting Romantic Colors
By Rose Freymuth-Frazier
Located in Chicago, IL
The setting sun casts it reflection off the clouds turning them a beautiful shade of purple over the marshy waters of this romantic landscape. The golden tones envelop the scene in a warmth that one can almost feel upon ones skin. Loose brush strokes and layers of paint give this scene depth and dimension. This piece is framed in an ornate wooden frame measuring 15 x 27 inches. Rose Freymuth-Frazier Origin Story oil on panel 12h x 24w in 30.48h x 60.96w cm RFF050 Rose Freymuth-Frazier Employing the techniques of the past in the service of contemporary exploration, I seek to add a fresh voice to the sometimes venerable, sometimes dusty and archaic tradition of large-scale figurative painting, while subtly addressing the mythology, objectification and subjugation of women. My subjects are at first glance close to home-new mothers, friends, lovers, artists, dancers-but are then quickly placed at a distance via edgy modification, rigorous technique, minimal contexts and composition, and idiosyncratic use of color. I am also interested in social presentation, artifice, and simulation as they relate to my subjects. I hope to peel away a gossamer thin layer of reality, not just to document the real but also to reveal what might be. BIOGRAPHY Given my restless history, it is curious that I became a figurative painter in New York City. My maternal Grandparents fled Hitler's Germany in the late 1930's. After being refused entry to the United States, they were welcomed into the Dominican Republic, where they happily resided in a small orderly bungalow of their own design and made their living as studio photographer and cheese maker for seven years. Amid this exotic island milieu, my mother was born. Similarly, my fraternal grandparents, he being a US medic stationed in New Zealand and she, a seventeen year old Kiwi, met just long enough in the back of an ambulance in the early 1940's for her to come to the US on a steamer eighteen months later with their nine-month-old baby boy: my father. My eventual parents found each other in Nevada City, California, a small Gold Rush town flanked by a river and nestled in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. There they fashioned a life according to their own rules and beliefs, free from the rigid standards of mainstream society. I was born on the floor of an old miner's cabin on a frigid November night in 1977. The midwife, who had learned the art of delivering babies while assisting her grandfather across the moors of Scotland, lived atop an icy ridge, did not own a telephone, and was summoned just in time. She made her living as a welder and considered her midwifery skill a gift. She refused to take money for her services. As payment, my mother, a ceramic sculptor, crafted her a large salad bowl with which to catch future placentas. So for the price of a handcrafted, multi-use salad bowl, (my first brush with art), I came into the world. I grew up in a free-spirited, idyllic wilderness until my existence was reported to the authorities in the form of a birth certificate. At eight years old, after some home schooling and experimental education, I was finally sent to public school. By sixteen I left the small town and moved in with my older brother who lived by the sea. A year later I applied and was accepted to the Interlochen Arts Academy in Northern Michigan where I spent my senior year of high school. At eighteen years old, I came to New York City on a scholarship to study theater. The city dazzled me, but after completing the term of study-and perhaps echoing my mother's flight from Barnard on a motorcycle years before-I headed back west, this time to Los Angeles where I landed in a Hollywood Boulevard youth hostel. It was in the culturally diverse atmosphere of Southern California, amid the palms, cars, and birds of paradise that I began to paint. In a twist of fate that only Hollywood could deliver, I was "discovered" stuck in traffic on Ventura Boulevard and given a record deal, (although I was not a singer). For six months I was under contract as "Ruby Blonde" and was paid to do nothing. Mercifully, the album was never made but I chose to use the free time and money to paint. Inspired by trips through Mexico and Guatemala, I fashioned giant faces from memory, which I painted on oversized pieces of scavenged plywood. I found the act of painting both hypnotic and meditative. So I returned to New York, (via Argentina), to further pursue the serious study of figurative painting technique. We know that in the past realism was discredited as kitsch and blamed for it's ability to appeal to and affect the masses. This inherent accessibility is the reason I choose to paint in the realist tradition. Education Private Study with and assistant to Steven Assael, New York City, 2004-2006 Private Study with and assistant to Odd Nerdrum, Norway, 2005 Independent Study in Europe, Summer 2005 New York Academy of Art, Master Class with Steven Assael, 2004 The Art Students League of New York, Gregg Kreutz, 2002-2004 American Musical and Dramatic Academy, New York City, 1996-1998, Graduate Interlochen Arts Academy, Interlochen, Michigan, 1996, Graduate Solo Exhibitions Rose Freymuth-Frazier: The Virgin and the Unicorn, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago IL, December, 2012 Rose Freymuth-Frazier: Whispering Sisters and the Female Figurative Image, Cress Gallery, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, 2010 Rose Freymuth-Frazier: Variation, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago IL, October 2007 Select Group Exhibitions On Adornment - Pen & Brush, New York City, 2018 Five and Under - Arcadia Contemporary, Pasadena, CA, 2018 35th Anniversary Show - AFA-NYC, New York City, 2018 Realism: Then and Now - Cavalier Galleries, New York City, 2018 Art on Paper Fair - Gallery Victor Armendariz booth, New York City, 2018 Figure 8 - Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL, 2017 Coming Attractions - Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL, 2017 Summer's Ghost - Parlor Gallery, Asbury Park, NJ, 2016 BeinArt Collective Surreal Art Show - Copro Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, 2016 American Realism: Past to Present - Cavalier Galleries, New York City, 2015 Les Petit Fours, International Group Exhibition, (co-curated by Beautiful Bizarre Magazine and Friend's of Leon Gallery) - Friends of Leon Gallery, Sydney, Australia, 2015 Inaugural Group Show - Haven Gallery, New York, 2015 In the Way of Beauty - Parlor Gallery, Asbury Park, NJ, 2015 Benefit Show for the Southampton Animal Shelter - Richard J. Demato Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY, 2015 Rose Freymuth-Frazier, “Prints” at Lay-Low Fine Art in Balearic Islands, Spain, 2015 Contemporary Realism - Cavalier Galleries, Greenwich, Connecticut, 2014 Benefit Show for the Southampton Animal Shelter - Richard J. Demato Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY, 2014 Contemporary Realism - Cavalier Galleries, New York City, 2014 Infusion - Roq La Rue Gallery, Seattle, Washington, 2014 Laluzapalooza - 28th Annual Group Show - La Luz De Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2014 20th Anniversary Group Show - Copro Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, 2013 Mums The Word, curated by Hilary Harkness, Mills Pond House Gallery, New York, NY, 2012 SOFA New York, Park Avenue Armory, New York 2012 Two Faces of Beauty, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago IL, 2010 Art Chicago, Chicago IL, 2010 SOFA New York, Park Avenue Armory, New York 2010 Art Chicago, Chicago IL, 2009 SOFA New York, Park Avenue Armory, New York 2009 Portraits, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2009 Art Chicago, Chicago IL, 2009 SOFA New York, Park Avenue Armory, New York 2009 Art Chicago, Chicago IL, 2008 Palm Beach III, Ann Nathan Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida, 2008 SOFA New York, Park Avenue Armory, New York, 2008 The Painters, Bill Lowe Gallery, Atlanta Georgia, 2007 SOFA New York, Park Avenue Armory, New York, 2007 Art Chicago, Chicago IL, 2007 Above & Beyond, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago IL, 2007 Select Publications and Press Playboy Magazine, Interview - March 30th, 2016 Ms. Magazine, Online Feature - March 10th, 2016 Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, Interview - November 5th, 2015 Featured in “Uno de los Nuestros”, Barcelona, 2015 Hi-Fructose, Online Feature - June 17th, 2014 Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, 12 page Feature, Issue 006, September, 2014 Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, Online Feature, April 18th, 2014 Line & Stylish Art Magazine, “Artist of the Month”, April, 2014 iARTistas Summer Nude Issue, 2014 The Nerdrum School - Orfeus Publishing, 2013 Huffinton Post - May 24th, 2013 The 22 Magazine - Feb. 8th, 2013 Combustus Magazine, December 15th, 2012 Poets and Artists, October, 2012 American Artist Magazine, September, 2012 Creative Quarterly, Winter 2011/2012 Direct Art Magazine, Fall, 2011 Art Papers, January, 2011 American Art Collector Magazine, September, 2010 American Art Collector Magazine - Second Annual Art of the Nude, 2010 Chattanooga Times Free Press, August 29th, 2010 ArtNews, October, 2007 Chicago Tribune, November 9th, 2007 Direct Art Magazine, Spring, 2007 Select Collections The Bennett Collection of Women Realists Seven Bridges Foundation, Greenwich, CT Diane and John Marek Collection, Chattanooga, TN Billy Hunt Collection, Chicago, IL Phil Burgess & Jim Nutter, Chicago, IL Rick Shoemaker & James Ruud, Chicago, IL Joan Berger, Chicago, IL Jack & Gail Witlin, Palm Desert, CA Bill & Tavi Flanagan, Irvine, CA Brian Westphal & Michael McVicker, Chicago, IL Awards and Honors Art Renewal Center’s International Salon - Figurative Category - Finalist, 2013/2014 European Museum of Modern Art, MEAM - Figurativas '13 - Barcelona, Spain - Finalist, 2013 The American Chinese Oil Painting League - Butler Museum Exhibition - Finalist, 2011 John and Diane Marek Visiting Artist Lecture Series, University of TN, Chattanooga, 2010 Chairman of the Board Award, Salmagundi Club, 2006 Al Barker...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Rose Freymuth-Frazier Art

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Oil, Panel

The Wise Ones - Three Rabbits Amongst a Broken Strand of Pearls, Original Oil
By Rose Freymuth-Frazier
Located in Chicago, IL
Rose Freymuth-Frazier Wise Ones oil on linen 32h x 50w in 81.28h x 127w cm RFF059 Rose Freymuth-Frazier Employing the techniques of the past in the service of contemporary explorati...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Rose Freymuth-Frazier Art

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Linen, Oil

Come In Peace - Futuristic Woman in Space Suit Seated Next to a Bunny
By Rose Freymuth-Frazier
Located in Chicago, IL
Rose Freymuth-Frazier Come In Peace oil on linen 50h x 70w in 127h x 177.80w cm RFF056 Rose Freymuth-Frazier Employing the techniques of the past in the service of contemporary expl...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Rose Freymuth-Frazier Art

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Linen, Oil

Pollinators - Two Figures in Flower Suits, Surrounded by Butterflies, Bright Sky
By Rose Freymuth-Frazier
Located in Chicago, IL
Artist Rose Freymuth Frazier presents "Pollinators" - two figures dressed in flowered suits, their faces obliterated by a swarm of butterflies flying inside glass helmets. Set upon a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Rose Freymuth-Frazier Art

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Linen, Oil

Peace Cadet - Large Scale Portrait of Woman in Space Suit Surrounded by Bunnies
By Rose Freymuth-Frazier
Located in Chicago, IL
Flower Power with a modern twist. Artist Rose Freymuth Frazier plays presents "Peace Cadet" - a woman clad in a space suit, shooting a pistol that has flow...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Rose Freymuth-Frazier Art

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Oil, Linen

Sunburst, Rising Sun - Reflective Golden Clouds, Marshy Landscape, Original Oil
By Rose Freymuth-Frazier
Located in Chicago, IL
The rising sun casts a reflective glow onto the puffy clouds hanging over a marshy landscape resulting in a sky that is awash in tones of blue and gold. This beautiful combination is reflected on the water below creating an enchanting romantic scene in Rose Freymuth Frazier's landscape painting entitled "Sunburst". Her technique of using loose brush strokes and layers of paint give this scene depth and dimension. The painting is framed with a decorative wooden frame measuring 17 x 21 inches. Rose Freymuth-Frazier Sunburst oil on panel 12h x 24w in 30.48h x 60.96w cm RFF051 Rose Freymuth-Frazier Employing the techniques of the past in the service of contemporary exploration, I seek to add a fresh voice to the sometimes venerable, sometimes dusty and archaic tradition of large-scale figurative painting, while subtly addressing the mythology, objectification and subjugation of women. My subjects are at first glance close to home-new mothers, friends, lovers, artists, dancers-but are then quickly placed at a distance via edgy modification, rigorous technique, minimal contexts and composition, and idiosyncratic use of color. I am also interested in social presentation, artifice, and simulation as they relate to my subjects. I hope to peel away a gossamer thin layer of reality, not just to document the real but also to reveal what might be. BIOGRAPHY Given my restless history, it is curious that I became a figurative painter in New York City. My maternal Grandparents fled Hitler's Germany in the late 1930's. After being refused entry to the United States, they were welcomed into the Dominican Republic, where they happily resided in a small orderly bungalow of their own design and made their living as studio photographer and cheese maker for seven years. Amid this exotic island milieu, my mother was born. Similarly, my fraternal grandparents, he being a US medic stationed in New Zealand and she, a seventeen year old Kiwi, met just long enough in the back of an ambulance in the early 1940's for her to come to the US on a steamer eighteen months later with their nine-month-old baby boy: my father. My eventual parents found each other in Nevada City, California, a small Gold Rush town flanked by a river and nestled in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. There they fashioned a life according to their own rules and beliefs, free from the rigid standards of mainstream society. I was born on the floor of an old miner's cabin on a frigid November night in 1977. The midwife, who had learned the art of delivering babies while assisting her grandfather across the moors of Scotland, lived atop an icy ridge, did not own a telephone, and was summoned just in time. She made her living as a welder and considered her midwifery skill a gift. She refused to take money for her services. As payment, my mother, a ceramic sculptor, crafted her a large salad bowl with which to catch future placentas. So for the price of a handcrafted, multi-use salad bowl, (my first brush with art), I came into the world. I grew up in a free-spirited, idyllic wilderness until my existence was reported to the authorities in the form of a birth certificate. At eight years old, after some home schooling and experimental education, I was finally sent to public school. By sixteen I left the small town and moved in with my older brother who lived by the sea. A year later I applied and was accepted to the Interlochen Arts Academy in Northern Michigan where I spent my senior year of high school. At eighteen years old, I came to New York City on a scholarship to study theater. The city dazzled me, but after completing the term of study-and perhaps echoing my mother's flight from Barnard on a motorcycle years before-I headed back west, this time to Los Angeles where I landed in a Hollywood Boulevard youth hostel. It was in the culturally diverse atmosphere of Southern California, amid the palms, cars, and birds of paradise that I began to paint. In a twist of fate that only Hollywood could deliver, I was "discovered" stuck in traffic on Ventura Boulevard and given a record deal, (although I was not a singer). For six months I was under contract as "Ruby Blonde" and was paid to do nothing. Mercifully, the album was never made but I chose to use the free time and money to paint. Inspired by trips through Mexico and Guatemala, I fashioned giant faces from memory, which I painted on oversized pieces of scavenged plywood. I found the act of painting both hypnotic and meditative. So I returned to New York, (via Argentina), to further pursue the serious study of figurative painting technique. We know that in the past realism was discredited as kitsch and blamed for it's ability to appeal to and affect the masses. This inherent accessibility is the reason I choose to paint in the realist tradition. Education Private Study with and assistant to Steven Assael, New York City, 2004-2006 Private Study with and assistant to Odd Nerdrum, Norway, 2005 Independent Study in Europe, Summer 2005 New York Academy of Art, Master Class with Steven Assael, 2004 The Art Students League of New York, Gregg Kreutz, 2002-2004 American Musical and Dramatic Academy, New York City, 1996-1998, Graduate Interlochen Arts Academy, Interlochen, Michigan, 1996, Graduate Solo Exhibitions Rose Freymuth-Frazier: The Virgin and the Unicorn, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago IL, December, 2012 Rose Freymuth-Frazier: Whispering Sisters and the Female Figurative Image, Cress Gallery, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, 2010 Rose Freymuth-Frazier: Variation, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago IL, October 2007 Select Group Exhibitions On Adornment - Pen & Brush, New York City, 2018 Five and Under - Arcadia Contemporary, Pasadena, CA, 2018 35th Anniversary Show - AFA-NYC, New York City, 2018 Realism: Then and Now - Cavalier Galleries, New York City, 2018 Art on Paper Fair - Gallery Victor Armendariz booth, New York City, 2018 Figure 8 - Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL, 2017 Coming Attractions - Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL, 2017 Summer's Ghost - Parlor Gallery, Asbury Park, NJ, 2016 BeinArt Collective Surreal Art Show - Copro Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, 2016 American Realism: Past to Present - Cavalier Galleries, New York City, 2015 Les Petit Fours, International Group Exhibition, (co-curated by Beautiful Bizarre Magazine and Friend's of Leon Gallery) - Friends of Leon Gallery, Sydney, Australia, 2015 Inaugural Group Show - Haven Gallery, New York, 2015 In the Way of Beauty - Parlor Gallery, Asbury Park, NJ, 2015 Benefit Show for the Southampton Animal Shelter - Richard J. Demato Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY, 2015 Rose Freymuth-Frazier, “Prints” at Lay-Low Fine Art in Balearic Islands, Spain, 2015 Contemporary Realism - Cavalier Galleries, Greenwich, Connecticut, 2014 Benefit Show for the Southampton Animal Shelter - Richard J. Demato Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY, 2014 Contemporary Realism - Cavalier Galleries, New York City, 2014 Infusion - Roq La Rue Gallery, Seattle, Washington, 2014 Laluzapalooza - 28th Annual Group Show - La Luz De Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2014 20th Anniversary Group Show - Copro Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, 2013 Mums The Word, curated by Hilary Harkness, Mills Pond House Gallery, New York, NY, 2012 SOFA New York, Park Avenue Armory, New York 2012 Two Faces of Beauty, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago IL, 2010 Art Chicago, Chicago IL, 2010 SOFA New York, Park Avenue Armory, New York 2010 Art Chicago, Chicago IL, 2009 SOFA New York, Park Avenue Armory, New York 2009 Portraits, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2009 Art Chicago, Chicago IL, 2009 SOFA New York, Park Avenue Armory, New York 2009 Art Chicago, Chicago IL, 2008 Palm Beach III, Ann Nathan Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida, 2008 SOFA New York, Park Avenue Armory, New York, 2008 The Painters, Bill Lowe Gallery, Atlanta Georgia, 2007 SOFA New York, Park Avenue Armory, New York, 2007 Art Chicago, Chicago IL, 2007 Above & Beyond, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago IL, 2007 Select Publications and Press Playboy Magazine, Interview - March 30th, 2016 Ms. Magazine, Online Feature - March 10th, 2016 Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, Interview - November 5th, 2015 Featured in “Uno de los Nuestros”, Barcelona, 2015 Hi-Fructose, Online Feature - June 17th, 2014 Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, 12 page Feature, Issue 006, September, 2014 Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, Online Feature, April 18th, 2014 Line & Stylish Art Magazine, “Artist of the Month”, April, 2014 iARTistas Summer Nude Issue, 2014 The Nerdrum School - Orfeus Publishing, 2013 Huffinton Post - May 24th, 2013 The 22 Magazine - Feb. 8th, 2013 Combustus Magazine, December 15th, 2012 Poets and Artists, October, 2012 American Artist Magazine, September, 2012 Creative Quarterly, Winter 2011/2012 Direct Art Magazine, Fall, 2011 Art Papers, January, 2011 American Art Collector Magazine, September, 2010 American Art Collector Magazine - Second Annual Art of the Nude, 2010 Chattanooga Times Free Press, August 29th, 2010 ArtNews, October, 2007 Chicago Tribune, November 9th, 2007 Direct Art Magazine, Spring, 2007 Select Collections The Bennett Collection of Women Realists Seven Bridges Foundation, Greenwich, CT Diane and John Marek Collection, Chattanooga, TN Billy Hunt Collection, Chicago, IL Phil Burgess & Jim Nutter, Chicago, IL Rick Shoemaker & James Ruud, Chicago, IL Joan Berger, Chicago, IL Jack & Gail Witlin, Palm Desert, CA Bill & Tavi Flanagan, Irvine, CA Brian Westphal & Michael McVicker, Chicago, IL Awards and Honors Art Renewal Center’s International Salon - Figurative Category - Finalist, 2013/2014 European Museum of Modern Art, MEAM - Figurativas '13 - Barcelona, Spain - Finalist, 2013 The American Chinese Oil Painting League - Butler Museum Exhibition - Finalist, 2011 John and Diane Marek Visiting Artist Lecture Series, University of TN, Chattanooga, 2010 Chairman of the Board Award, Salmagundi Club, 2006 Al Barker...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Rose Freymuth-Frazier Art

Materials

Oil, Panel

Divine Intervention, White Persian Cat Standing on a Trump Doll, Oil Painting
By Rose Freymuth-Frazier
Located in Chicago, IL
This White Persian Cat stares upward with her yellow eyes fixated on an unknown object out the viewer's sight. But what is in focus is the item that the cat has taken under it's paw - an effigy of the 45th President. The artwork is framed in a carved gold toned frame measuring 27.5h x 21.5w inches. Rose Freymuth...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Rose Freymuth-Frazier Art

Materials

Linen, Oil

Sacred Space - Original Oil Painting w/ Setting Sun Reflecting Romantic Colors
By Rose Freymuth-Frazier
Located in Chicago, IL
The sky is ablaze with yellow and gold as the setting sun reflects its rays upon the cloud covered sky. Swaths of color envelop this romantic marsh setting. The golden tones surround the scene in a warmth that one can almost feel upon ones skin. Loose brush strokes and layers of paint give this scene depth and dimension. This piece is framed in an ornate wooden frame measuring 21 x 27 inches. Rose Freymuth-Frazier Sacred Space oil on panel 18h x 24w in 45.72h x 60.96w cm RFF049 Rose Freymuth-Frazier Employing the techniques of the past in the service of contemporary exploration, I seek to add a fresh voice to the sometimes venerable, sometimes dusty and archaic tradition of large-scale figurative painting, while subtly addressing the mythology, objectification and subjugation of women. My subjects are at first glance close to home-new mothers, friends, lovers, artists, dancers-but are then quickly placed at a distance via edgy modification, rigorous technique, minimal contexts and composition, and idiosyncratic use of color. I am also interested in social presentation, artifice, and simulation as they relate to my subjects. I hope to peel away a gossamer thin layer of reality, not just to document the real but also to reveal what might be. BIOGRAPHY Given my restless history, it is curious that I became a figurative painter in New York City. My maternal Grandparents fled Hitler's Germany in the late 1930's. After being refused entry to the United States, they were welcomed into the Dominican Republic, where they happily resided in a small orderly bungalow of their own design and made their living as studio photographer and cheese maker for seven years. Amid this exotic island milieu, my mother was born. Similarly, my fraternal grandparents, he being a US medic stationed in New Zealand and she, a seventeen year old Kiwi, met just long enough in the back of an ambulance in the early 1940's for her to come to the US on a steamer eighteen months later with their nine-month-old baby boy: my father. My eventual parents found each other in Nevada City, California, a small Gold Rush town flanked by a river and nestled in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. There they fashioned a life according to their own rules and beliefs, free from the rigid standards of mainstream society. I was born on the floor of an old miner's cabin on a frigid November night in 1977. The midwife, who had learned the art of delivering babies while assisting her grandfather across the moors of Scotland, lived atop an icy ridge, did not own a telephone, and was summoned just in time. She made her living as a welder and considered her midwifery skill a gift. She refused to take money for her services. As payment, my mother, a ceramic sculptor, crafted her a large salad bowl with which to catch future placentas. So for the price of a handcrafted, multi-use salad bowl, (my first brush with art), I came into the world. I grew up in a free-spirited, idyllic wilderness until my existence was reported to the authorities in the form of a birth certificate. At eight years old, after some home schooling and experimental education, I was finally sent to public school. By sixteen I left the small town and moved in with my older brother who lived by the sea. A year later I applied and was accepted to the Interlochen Arts Academy in Northern Michigan where I spent my senior year of high school. At eighteen years old, I came to New York City on a scholarship to study theater. The city dazzled me, but after completing the term of study-and perhaps echoing my mother's flight from Barnard on a motorcycle years before-I headed back west, this time to Los Angeles where I landed in a Hollywood Boulevard youth hostel. It was in the culturally diverse atmosphere of Southern California, amid the palms, cars, and birds of paradise that I began to paint. In a twist of fate that only Hollywood could deliver, I was "discovered" stuck in traffic on Ventura Boulevard and given a record deal, (although I was not a singer). For six months I was under contract as "Ruby Blonde" and was paid to do nothing. Mercifully, the album was never made but I chose to use the free time and money to paint. Inspired by trips through Mexico and Guatemala, I fashioned giant faces from memory, which I painted on oversized pieces of scavenged plywood. I found the act of painting both hypnotic and meditative. So I returned to New York, (via Argentina), to further pursue the serious study of figurative painting technique. We know that in the past realism was discredited as kitsch and blamed for it's ability to appeal to and affect the masses. This inherent accessibility is the reason I choose to paint in the realist tradition. Education Private Study with and assistant to Steven Assael, New York City, 2004-2006 Private Study with and assistant to Odd Nerdrum, Norway, 2005 Independent Study in Europe, Summer 2005 New York Academy of Art, Master Class with Steven Assael, 2004 The Art Students League of New York, Gregg Kreutz, 2002-2004 American Musical and Dramatic Academy, New York City, 1996-1998, Graduate Interlochen Arts Academy, Interlochen, Michigan, 1996, Graduate Solo Exhibitions Rose Freymuth-Frazier: The Virgin and the Unicorn, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago IL, December, 2012 Rose Freymuth-Frazier: Whispering Sisters and the Female Figurative Image, Cress Gallery, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, 2010 Rose Freymuth-Frazier: Variation, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago IL, October 2007 Select Group Exhibitions On Adornment - Pen & Brush, New York City, 2018 Five and Under - Arcadia Contemporary, Pasadena, CA, 2018 35th Anniversary Show - AFA-NYC, New York City, 2018 Realism: Then and Now - Cavalier Galleries, New York City, 2018 Art on Paper Fair - Gallery Victor Armendariz booth, New York City, 2018 Figure 8 - Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL, 2017 Coming Attractions - Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL, 2017 Summer's Ghost - Parlor Gallery, Asbury Park, NJ, 2016 BeinArt Collective Surreal Art Show - Copro Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, 2016 American Realism: Past to Present - Cavalier Galleries, New York City, 2015 Les Petit Fours, International Group Exhibition, (co-curated by Beautiful Bizarre Magazine and Friend's of Leon Gallery) - Friends of Leon Gallery, Sydney, Australia, 2015 Inaugural Group Show - Haven Gallery, New York, 2015 In the Way of Beauty - Parlor Gallery, Asbury Park, NJ, 2015 Benefit Show for the Southampton Animal Shelter - Richard J. Demato Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY, 2015 Rose Freymuth-Frazier, “Prints” at Lay-Low Fine Art in Balearic Islands, Spain, 2015 Contemporary Realism - Cavalier Galleries, Greenwich, Connecticut, 2014 Benefit Show for the Southampton Animal Shelter - Richard J. Demato Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY, 2014 Contemporary Realism - Cavalier Galleries, New York City, 2014 Infusion - Roq La Rue Gallery, Seattle, Washington, 2014 Laluzapalooza - 28th Annual Group Show - La Luz De Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2014 20th Anniversary Group Show - Copro Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, 2013 Mums The Word, curated by Hilary Harkness, Mills Pond House Gallery, New York, NY, 2012 SOFA New York, Park Avenue Armory, New York 2012 Two Faces of Beauty, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago IL, 2010 Art Chicago, Chicago IL, 2010 SOFA New York, Park Avenue Armory, New York 2010 Art Chicago, Chicago IL, 2009 SOFA New York, Park Avenue Armory, New York 2009 Portraits, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2009 Art Chicago, Chicago IL, 2009 SOFA New York, Park Avenue Armory, New York 2009 Art Chicago, Chicago IL, 2008 Palm Beach III, Ann Nathan Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida, 2008 SOFA New York, Park Avenue Armory, New York, 2008 The Painters, Bill Lowe Gallery, Atlanta Georgia, 2007 SOFA New York, Park Avenue Armory, New York, 2007 Art Chicago, Chicago IL, 2007 Above & Beyond, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago IL, 2007 Select Publications and Press Playboy Magazine, Interview - March 30th, 2016 Ms. Magazine, Online Feature - March 10th, 2016 Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, Interview - November 5th, 2015 Featured in “Uno de los Nuestros”, Barcelona, 2015 Hi-Fructose, Online Feature - June 17th, 2014 Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, 12 page Feature, Issue 006, September, 2014 Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, Online Feature, April 18th, 2014 Line & Stylish Art Magazine, “Artist of the Month”, April, 2014 iARTistas Summer Nude Issue, 2014 The Nerdrum School - Orfeus Publishing, 2013 Huffinton Post - May 24th, 2013 The 22 Magazine - Feb. 8th, 2013 Combustus Magazine, December 15th, 2012 Poets and Artists, October, 2012 American Artist Magazine, September, 2012 Creative Quarterly, Winter 2011/2012 Direct Art Magazine, Fall, 2011 Art Papers, January, 2011 American Art Collector Magazine, September, 2010 American Art Collector Magazine - Second Annual Art of the Nude, 2010 Chattanooga Times Free Press, August 29th, 2010 ArtNews, October, 2007 Chicago Tribune, November 9th, 2007 Direct Art Magazine, Spring, 2007 Select Collections The Bennett Collection of Women Realists Seven Bridges Foundation, Greenwich, CT Diane and John Marek Collection, Chattanooga, TN Billy Hunt Collection, Chicago, IL Phil Burgess & Jim Nutter, Chicago, IL Rick Shoemaker & James Ruud, Chicago, IL Joan Berger, Chicago, IL Jack & Gail Witlin, Palm Desert, CA Bill & Tavi Flanagan, Irvine, CA Brian Westphal & Michael McVicker, Chicago, IL Awards and Honors Art Renewal Center’s International Salon - Figurative Category - Finalist, 2013/2014 European Museum of Modern Art, MEAM - Figurativas '13 - Barcelona, Spain - Finalist, 2013 The American Chinese Oil Painting League - Butler Museum Exhibition - Finalist, 2011 John and Diane Marek Visiting Artist Lecture Series, University of TN, Chattanooga, 2010 Chairman of the Board Award, Salmagundi Club, 2006 Al Barker...
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Oil, Panel

Eve of Destruction - Modern Interpretation of the Garden of Eden, Original Oil
By Rose Freymuth-Frazier
Located in Chicago, IL
Once the innocence is gone, the true character of Eve is revealed in Rose Freymuth Frazier's painting entitled "Eve of Destruction". Complete with a tattooed belly and a necklace that reads "Bitch", this interpretation of Eve after her expulsion from the Garden is a truly modern one. She has a cigarette hanging from her mouth, is carving that poison apple with seemingly not a care in the world as a beautifully colored snake makes itself at home around her neck. This piece is framed in a heavy black wooden frame measuring 60 x 40 inches Rose Freymuth-Frazier Eve of Destruction, 2021 oil on canvas 54h x 34w in 137.16h x 86.36w cm RFF057 Rose Freymuth-Frazier Employing the techniques of the past in the service of contemporary exploration, I seek to add a fresh voice to the sometimes venerable, sometimes dusty and archaic tradition of large-scale figurative painting, while subtly addressing the mythology, objectification and subjugation of women. My subjects are at first glance close to home-new mothers, friends, lovers, artists, dancers-but are then quickly placed at a distance via edgy modification, rigorous technique, minimal contexts and composition, and idiosyncratic use of color. I am also interested in social presentation, artifice, and simulation as they relate to my subjects. I hope to peel away a gossamer thin layer of reality, not just to document the real but also to reveal what might be. BIOGRAPHY Given my restless history, it is curious that I became a figurative painter in New York City. My maternal Grandparents fled Hitler's Germany in the late 1930's. After being refused entry to the United States, they were welcomed into the Dominican Republic, where they happily resided in a small orderly bungalow of their own design and made their living as studio photographer and cheese maker...
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Oil, Linen

Deanna, Make-Up Artist - Portrait of a Woman w/Curly Hair & Huge Hoop Earrings
By Rose Freymuth-Frazier
Located in Chicago, IL
This contemporary portrait of Deanna - Make-Up Artist, is a beautiful example of the talents of artist Rose Freymuth Frazier. The blunt stare of the sub...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Rose Freymuth-Frazier Art

Materials

Oil, Panel

Quiet Evening - Setting Sun and Rising Moon, Reflective and Romantic Colors
By Rose Freymuth-Frazier
Located in Chicago, IL
The sky is in in that in-between stage where the setting sun casts its golden rays upon the sky and the rising moon is peaking through. This combination creates a haze of golds purples and blues across the vast sky in Rose Freymuth Frazier's landscape painting entitled "Quiet Evening". Rose's technique of using loose brush strokes and layers of paint give this scene depth and dimension. Rose Freymuth-Frazier Quiet Evening oil on panel 16h x 20w in 40.64h x 50.80w cm RFF040 Rose Freymuth-Frazier Employing the techniques of the past in the service of contemporary exploration, I seek to add a fresh voice to the sometimes venerable, sometimes dusty and archaic tradition of large-scale figurative painting, while subtly addressing the mythology, objectification and subjugation of women. My subjects are at first glance close to home-new mothers, friends, lovers, artists, dancers-but are then quickly placed at a distance via edgy modification, rigorous technique, minimal contexts and composition, and idiosyncratic use of color. I am also interested in social presentation, artifice, and simulation as they relate to my subjects. I hope to peel away a gossamer thin layer of reality, not just to document the real but also to reveal what might be. BIOGRAPHY Given my restless history, it is curious that I became a figurative painter in New York City. My maternal Grandparents fled Hitler's Germany in the late 1930's. After being refused entry to the United States, they were welcomed into the Dominican Republic, where they happily resided in a small orderly bungalow of their own design and made their living as studio photographer and cheese maker for seven years. Amid this exotic island milieu, my mother was born. Similarly, my fraternal grandparents, he being a US medic stationed in New Zealand and she, a seventeen year old Kiwi, met just long enough in the back of an ambulance in the early 1940's for her to come to the US on a steamer eighteen months later with their nine-month-old baby boy: my father. My eventual parents found each other in Nevada City, California, a small Gold Rush town flanked by a river and nestled in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. There they fashioned a life according to their own rules and beliefs, free from the rigid standards of mainstream society. I was born on the floor of an old miner's cabin on a frigid November night in 1977. The midwife, who had learned the art of delivering babies while assisting her grandfather across the moors of Scotland, lived atop an icy ridge, did not own a telephone, and was summoned just in time. She made her living as a welder and considered her midwifery skill a gift. She refused to take money for her services. As payment, my mother, a ceramic sculptor, crafted her a large salad bowl with which to catch future placentas. So for the price of a handcrafted, multi-use salad bowl, (my first brush with art), I came into the world. I grew up in a free-spirited, idyllic wilderness until my existence was reported to the authorities in the form of a birth certificate. At eight years old, after some home schooling and experimental education, I was finally sent to public school. By sixteen I left the small town and moved in with my older brother who lived by the sea. A year later I applied and was accepted to the Interlochen Arts Academy in Northern Michigan where I spent my senior year of high school. At eighteen years old, I came to New York City on a scholarship to study theater. The city dazzled me, but after completing the term of study-and perhaps echoing my mother's flight from Barnard on a motorcycle years before-I headed back west, this time to Los Angeles where I landed in a Hollywood Boulevard youth hostel. It was in the culturally diverse atmosphere of Southern California, amid the palms, cars, and birds of paradise that I began to paint. In a twist of fate that only Hollywood could deliver, I was "discovered" stuck in traffic on Ventura Boulevard and given a record deal, (although I was not a singer). For six months I was under contract as "Ruby Blonde" and was paid to do nothing. Mercifully, the album was never made but I chose to use the free time and money to paint. Inspired by trips through Mexico and Guatemala, I fashioned giant faces from memory, which I painted on oversized pieces of scavenged plywood. I found the act of painting both hypnotic and meditative. So I returned to New York, (via Argentina), to further pursue the serious study of figurative painting technique. We know that in the past realism was discredited as kitsch and blamed for it's ability to appeal to and affect the masses. This inherent accessibility is the reason I choose to paint in the realist tradition. Education Private Study with and assistant to Steven Assael, New York City, 2004-2006 Private Study with and assistant to Odd Nerdrum, Norway, 2005 Independent Study in Europe, Summer 2005 New York Academy of Art, Master Class with Steven Assael, 2004 The Art Students League of New York, Gregg Kreutz, 2002-2004 American Musical and Dramatic Academy, New York City, 1996-1998, Graduate Interlochen Arts Academy, Interlochen, Michigan, 1996, Graduate Solo Exhibitions Rose Freymuth-Frazier: The Virgin and the Unicorn, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago IL, December, 2012 Rose Freymuth-Frazier: Whispering Sisters and the Female Figurative Image, Cress Gallery, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, 2010 Rose Freymuth-Frazier: Variation, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago IL, October 2007 Select Group Exhibitions On Adornment - Pen & Brush, New York City, 2018 Five and Under - Arcadia Contemporary, Pasadena, CA, 2018 35th Anniversary Show - AFA-NYC, New York City, 2018 Realism: Then and Now - Cavalier Galleries, New York City, 2018 Art on Paper Fair - Gallery Victor Armendariz booth, New York City, 2018 Figure 8 - Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL, 2017 Coming Attractions - Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL, 2017 Summer's Ghost - Parlor Gallery, Asbury Park, NJ, 2016 BeinArt Collective Surreal Art Show - Copro Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, 2016 American Realism: Past to Present - Cavalier Galleries, New York City, 2015 Les Petit Fours, International Group Exhibition, (co-curated by Beautiful Bizarre Magazine and Friend's of Leon Gallery) - Friends of Leon Gallery, Sydney, Australia, 2015 Inaugural Group Show - Haven Gallery, New York, 2015 In the Way of Beauty - Parlor Gallery, Asbury Park, NJ, 2015 Benefit Show for the Southampton Animal Shelter - Richard J. Demato Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY, 2015 Rose Freymuth-Frazier, “Prints” at Lay-Low Fine Art in Balearic Islands, Spain, 2015 Contemporary Realism - Cavalier Galleries, Greenwich, Connecticut, 2014 Benefit Show for the Southampton Animal Shelter - Richard J. Demato Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY, 2014 Contemporary Realism - Cavalier Galleries, New York City, 2014 Infusion - Roq La Rue Gallery, Seattle, Washington, 2014 Laluzapalooza - 28th Annual Group Show - La Luz De Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2014 20th Anniversary Group Show - Copro Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, 2013 Mums The Word, curated by Hilary Harkness, Mills Pond House Gallery, New York, NY, 2012 SOFA New York, Park Avenue Armory, New York 2012 Two Faces of Beauty, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago IL, 2010 Art Chicago, Chicago IL, 2010 SOFA New York, Park Avenue Armory, New York 2010 Art Chicago, Chicago IL, 2009 SOFA New York, Park Avenue Armory, New York 2009 Portraits, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2009 Art Chicago, Chicago IL, 2009 SOFA New York, Park Avenue Armory, New York 2009 Art Chicago, Chicago IL, 2008 Palm Beach III, Ann Nathan Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida, 2008 SOFA New York, Park Avenue Armory, New York, 2008 The Painters, Bill Lowe Gallery, Atlanta Georgia, 2007 SOFA New York, Park Avenue Armory, New York, 2007 Art Chicago, Chicago IL, 2007 Above & Beyond, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago IL, 2007 Select Publications and Press Playboy Magazine, Interview - March 30th, 2016 Ms. Magazine, Online Feature - March 10th, 2016 Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, Interview - November 5th, 2015 Featured in “Uno de los Nuestros”, Barcelona, 2015 Hi-Fructose, Online Feature - June 17th, 2014 Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, 12 page Feature, Issue 006, September, 2014 Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, Online Feature, April 18th, 2014 Line & Stylish Art Magazine, “Artist of the Month”, April, 2014 iARTistas Summer Nude Issue, 2014 The Nerdrum School - Orfeus Publishing, 2013 Huffinton Post - May 24th, 2013 The 22 Magazine - Feb. 8th, 2013 Combustus Magazine, December 15th, 2012 Poets and Artists, October, 2012 American Artist Magazine, September, 2012 Creative Quarterly, Winter 2011/2012 Direct Art Magazine, Fall, 2011 Art Papers, January, 2011 American Art Collector Magazine, September, 2010 American Art Collector Magazine - Second Annual Art of the Nude, 2010 Chattanooga Times Free Press, August 29th, 2010 ArtNews, October, 2007 Chicago Tribune, November 9th, 2007 Direct Art Magazine, Spring, 2007 Select Collections The Bennett Collection of Women Realists Seven Bridges Foundation, Greenwich, CT Diane and John Marek Collection, Chattanooga, TN Billy Hunt Collection, Chicago, IL Phil Burgess & Jim Nutter, Chicago, IL Rick Shoemaker & James Ruud, Chicago, IL Joan Berger, Chicago, IL Jack & Gail Witlin, Palm Desert, CA Bill & Tavi Flanagan, Irvine, CA Brian Westphal & Michael McVicker, Chicago, IL Awards and Honors Art Renewal Center’s International Salon - Figurative Category - Finalist, 2013/2014 European Museum of Modern Art, MEAM - Figurativas '13 - Barcelona, Spain - Finalist, 2013 The American Chinese Oil Painting League - Butler Museum Exhibition - Finalist, 2011 John and Diane Marek Visiting Artist Lecture Series, University of TN, Chattanooga, 2010 Chairman of the Board Award, Salmagundi Club, 2006 Al Barker...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Rose Freymuth-Frazier Art

Materials

Oil, Panel

Burning Desire - Sable Mare with Flower & Butterfly Mane & Amber-Rose Background
By Rose Freymuth-Frazier
Located in Chicago, IL
The sable colored mare bows her head to allow the viewer a better view of her intricate mane which is enhanced with red roses. Red-winged black birds flit around her, a symbol of protection, good luck and even prosperity. The amber rose background intensifies the softness of the horse's coat and the overall aesthetic. This painting is unframed, please contact the gallery for framing options. Rose Freymuth-Frazier Burning Desire oil on canvas 50h x 32w in 127h x 81.28w cm RFF048 Rose Freymuth-Frazier Employing the techniques of the past in the service of contemporary exploration, I seek to add a fresh voice to the sometimes venerable, sometimes dusty and archaic tradition of large-scale figurative painting, while subtly addressing the mythology, objectification and subjugation of women. My subjects are at first glance close to home-new mothers, friends, lovers, artists, dancers-but are then quickly placed at a distance via edgy modification, rigorous technique, minimal contexts and composition, and idiosyncratic use of color. I am also interested in social presentation, artifice, and simulation as they relate to my subjects. I hope to peel away a gossamer thin layer of reality, not just to document the real but also to reveal what might be. BIOGRAPHY Given my restless history, it is curious that I became a figurative painter in New York City. My maternal Grandparents fled Hitler's Germany in the late 1930's. After being refused entry to the United States, they were welcomed into the Dominican Republic, where they happily resided in a small orderly bungalow of their own design and made their living as studio photographer and cheese maker...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Rose Freymuth-Frazier Art

Materials

Oil, Linen

Midlife Madonna, Female in Teal and Red Silk Holding a Persian Cat, Oil Painting
By Rose Freymuth-Frazier
Located in Chicago, IL
Painted in the style reminiscent of the Old Master, Freymuth-Frazier brings the subject matter into the present. Here we see a woman - a self portrait - dressed in a sumptuous silk robe and gown, clutching a Persian cat yet with curlers in her hair. Painted during the early days of the pandemic, Rose takes her subjects from her surroundings, not necessarily her own experiences, but rather part of a larger experience of being a woman in today's society. Rose Freymuth-Frazier Midlife Madonna oil on linen 56h x 34w in 142.24h x 86.36w cm RFF047 Rose Freymuth-Frazier Employing the techniques of the past in the service of contemporary exploration, I seek to add a fresh voice to the sometimes venerable, sometimes dusty and archaic tradition of large-scale figurative painting, while subtly addressing the mythology, objectification and subjugation of women. My subjects are at first glance close to home-new mothers, friends, lovers, artists, dancers-but are then quickly placed at a distance via edgy modification, rigorous technique, minimal contexts and composition, and idiosyncratic use of color. I am also interested in social presentation, artifice, and simulation as they relate to my subjects. I hope to peel away a gossamer thin layer of reality, not just to document the real but also to reveal what might be. BIOGRAPHY Given my restless history, it is curious that I became a figurative painter in New York City. My maternal Grandparents fled Hitler's Germany in the late 1930's. After being refused entry to the United States, they were welcomed into the Dominican Republic, where they happily resided in a small orderly bungalow of their own design and made their living as studio photographer and cheese maker...
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Bulldog, Drawing Study of a Brown and White Bulldog, Matted and Framed
By Rose Freymuth-Frazier
Located in Chicago, IL
This small drawing study for the artist's monumental painting, "Renaissance" offers a glimpse into the artist's process. Rose Freymuth-Frazier captures this American Bulldog...
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Love Seekers - Young Male Portrait w/Roses and Butterflies, Framed, Oil on Panel
By Rose Freymuth-Frazier
Located in Chicago, IL
This young male fully takes in the intoxicating scene surrounding him as noted by his closed eyes. Yet he is obliviously immune to the chaos surrounding him - the numerous butterflies flitting around him as well as the rose thorns that have torn has hand. His soft features beautifully meld into the pale blue floral background. The painting is framed in an ornately carved wooden frame measuring 39 x 27 inches. Rose Freymuth...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Rose Freymuth-Frazier Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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So I returned to New York, (via Argentina), to further pursue the serious study of figurative painting technique. We know that in the past realism was discredited as kitsch and blamed for it's ability to appeal to and affect the masses. This inherent accessibility is the reason I choose to paint in the realist tradition. Education Private Study with and assistant to Steven Assael, New York City, 2004-2006 Private Study with and assistant to Odd Nerdrum, Norway, 2005 Independent Study in Europe, Summer 2005 New York Academy of Art, Master Class with Steven Assael, 2004 The Art Students League of New York, Gregg Kreutz, 2002-2004 American Musical and Dramatic Academy, New York City, 1996-1998, Graduate Interlochen Arts Academy, Interlochen, Michigan, 1996, Graduate Solo Exhibitions Rose Freymuth-Frazier: The Virgin and the Unicorn, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago IL, December, 2012 Rose Freymuth-Frazier: Whispering Sisters and the Female Figurative Image, Cress Gallery, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, 2010 Rose Freymuth-Frazier: Variation, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago IL, October 2007 Select Group Exhibitions On Adornment - Pen & Brush, New York City, 2018 Five and Under - Arcadia Contemporary, Pasadena, CA, 2018 35th Anniversary Show - AFA-NYC, New York City, 2018 Realism: Then and Now - Cavalier Galleries, New York City, 2018 Art on Paper Fair - Gallery Victor Armendariz booth, New York City, 2018 Figure 8 - Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL, 2017 Coming Attractions - Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL, 2017 Summer's Ghost - Parlor Gallery, Asbury Park, NJ, 2016 BeinArt Collective Surreal Art Show - Copro Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, 2016 American Realism: Past to Present - Cavalier Galleries, New York City, 2015 Les Petit Fours, International Group Exhibition, (co-curated by Beautiful Bizarre Magazine and Friend's of Leon Gallery) - Friends of Leon Gallery, Sydney, Australia, 2015 Inaugural Group Show - Haven Gallery, New York, 2015 In the Way of Beauty - Parlor Gallery, Asbury Park, NJ, 2015 Benefit Show for the Southampton Animal Shelter - Richard J. Demato Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY, 2015 Rose Freymuth-Frazier, “Prints” at Lay-Low Fine Art in Balearic Islands, Spain, 2015 Contemporary Realism - Cavalier Galleries, Greenwich, Connecticut, 2014 Benefit Show for the Southampton Animal Shelter - Richard J. Demato Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY, 2014 Contemporary Realism - Cavalier Galleries, New York City, 2014 Infusion - Roq La Rue Gallery, Seattle, Washington, 2014 Laluzapalooza - 28th Annual Group Show - La Luz De Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2014 20th Anniversary Group Show - Copro Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, 2013 Mums The Word, curated by Hilary Harkness, Mills Pond House Gallery, New York, NY, 2012 SOFA New York, Park Avenue Armory, New York 2012 Two Faces of Beauty, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago IL, 2010 Art Chicago, Chicago IL, 2010 SOFA New York, Park Avenue Armory, New York 2010 Art Chicago, Chicago IL, 2009 SOFA New York, Park Avenue Armory, New York 2009 Portraits, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2009 Art Chicago, Chicago IL, 2009 SOFA New York, Park Avenue Armory, New York 2009 Art Chicago, Chicago IL, 2008 Palm Beach III, Ann Nathan Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida, 2008 SOFA New York, Park Avenue Armory, New York, 2008 The Painters, Bill Lowe Gallery, Atlanta Georgia, 2007 SOFA New York, Park Avenue Armory, New York, 2007 Art Chicago, Chicago IL, 2007 Above & Beyond, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago IL, 2007 Select Publications and Press Playboy Magazine, Interview - March 30th, 2016 Ms. Magazine, Online Feature - March 10th, 2016 Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, Interview - November 5th, 2015 Featured in “Uno de los Nuestros”, Barcelona, 2015 Hi-Fructose, Online Feature - June 17th, 2014 Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, 12 page Feature, Issue 006, September, 2014 Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, Online Feature, April 18th, 2014 Line & Stylish Art Magazine, “Artist of the Month”, April, 2014 iARTistas Summer Nude Issue, 2014 The Nerdrum School - Orfeus Publishing, 2013 Huffinton Post - May 24th, 2013 The 22 Magazine - Feb. 8th, 2013 Combustus Magazine, December 15th, 2012 Poets and Artists, October, 2012 American Artist Magazine, September, 2012 Creative Quarterly, Winter 2011/2012 Direct Art Magazine, Fall, 2011 Art Papers, January, 2011 American Art Collector Magazine, September, 2010 American Art Collector Magazine - Second Annual Art of the Nude, 2010 Chattanooga Times Free Press, August 29th, 2010 ArtNews, October, 2007 Chicago Tribune, November 9th, 2007 Direct Art Magazine, Spring, 2007 Select Collections The Bennett Collection of Women Realists Seven Bridges Foundation, Greenwich, CT Diane and John Marek Collection, Chattanooga, TN Billy Hunt Collection, Chicago, IL Phil Burgess & Jim Nutter, Chicago, IL Rick Shoemaker & James Ruud, Chicago, IL Joan Berger, Chicago, IL Jack & Gail Witlin, Palm Desert, CA Bill & Tavi Flanagan, Irvine, CA Brian Westphal & Michael McVicker, Chicago, IL Awards and Honors Art Renewal Center’s International Salon - Figurative Category - Finalist, 2013/2014 European Museum of Modern Art, MEAM - Figurativas '13 - Barcelona, Spain - Finalist, 2013 The American Chinese Oil Painting League - Butler Museum Exhibition - Finalist, 2011 John and Diane Marek Visiting Artist Lecture Series, University of TN, Chattanooga, 2010 Chairman of the Board Award, Salmagundi Club, 2006 Al Barker...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Rose Freymuth-Frazier Art

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Panel, Oil

"Girl with Blossoms, " Oil Painting
By Rose Freymuth-Frazier
Located in Denver, CO
Rose Freymuth-Frazier's (US based) "Girl with Blossoms" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a nude model with blonde hair. This is a sec...
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2010s Realist Rose Freymuth-Frazier Art

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Oil, Linen

Night Vision - Platinum Blond Woman, Black Cat, Roses, Butterflies, Oil Painting
By Rose Freymuth-Frazier
Located in Chicago, IL
A platinum blond female figure cradles a black cat to her face, her eyes closed. She is taking in the sensual touch of the animal's fur who stares out at the viewer with bright yell...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Rose Freymuth-Frazier Art

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Oil, Panel

Afterglow - Original Oil Painting with Setting Sun Reflecting Romantic Colors
By Rose Freymuth-Frazier
Located in Chicago, IL
The sky is ablaze with orange and yellow swaths of color as the sun sets upon a romantic marsh setting. These golden tones envelop the scene in a warmth that one can almost feel upon ones skin. Loose brush strokes and layers of paint give this scene depth and dimension. Rose Freymuth-Frazier Afterglow oil on panel 12h x 16w in 30.48h x 40.64w cm RFF039 Rose Freymuth-Frazier Employing the techniques of the past in the service of contemporary exploration, I seek to add a fresh voice to the sometimes venerable, sometimes dusty and archaic tradition of large-scale figurative painting, while subtly addressing the mythology, objectification and subjugation of women. My subjects are at first glance close to home-new mothers, friends, lovers, artists, dancers-but are then quickly placed at a distance via edgy modification, rigorous technique, minimal contexts and composition, and idiosyncratic use of color. I am also interested in social presentation, artifice, and simulation as they relate to my subjects. I hope to peel away a gossamer thin layer of reality, not just to document the real but also to reveal what might be. BIOGRAPHY Given my restless history, it is curious that I became a figurative painter in New York City. My maternal Grandparents fled Hitler's Germany in the late 1930's. After being refused entry to the United States, they were welcomed into the Dominican Republic, where they happily resided in a small orderly bungalow of their own design and made their living as studio photographer and cheese maker for seven years. Amid this exotic island milieu, my mother was born. Similarly, my fraternal grandparents, he being a US medic stationed in New Zealand and she, a seventeen year old Kiwi, met just long enough in the back of an ambulance in the early 1940's for her to come to the US on a steamer eighteen months later with their nine-month-old baby boy: my father. My eventual parents found each other in Nevada City, California, a small Gold Rush town flanked by a river and nestled in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. There they fashioned a life according to their own rules and beliefs, free from the rigid standards of mainstream society. I was born on the floor of an old miner's cabin on a frigid November night in 1977. The midwife, who had learned the art of delivering babies while assisting her grandfather across the moors of Scotland, lived atop an icy ridge, did not own a telephone, and was summoned just in time. She made her living as a welder and considered her midwifery skill a gift. She refused to take money for her services. As payment, my mother, a ceramic sculptor, crafted her a large salad bowl with which to catch future placentas. So for the price of a handcrafted, multi-use salad bowl, (my first brush with art), I came into the world. I grew up in a free-spirited, idyllic wilderness until my existence was reported to the authorities in the form of a birth certificate. At eight years old, after some home schooling and experimental education, I was finally sent to public school. By sixteen I left the small town and moved in with my older brother who lived by the sea. A year later I applied and was accepted to the Interlochen Arts Academy in Northern Michigan where I spent my senior year of high school. At eighteen years old, I came to New York City on a scholarship to study theater. The city dazzled me, but after completing the term of study-and perhaps echoing my mother's flight from Barnard on a motorcycle years before-I headed back west, this time to Los Angeles where I landed in a Hollywood Boulevard youth hostel. It was in the culturally diverse atmosphere of Southern California, amid the palms, cars, and birds of paradise that I began to paint. In a twist of fate that only Hollywood could deliver, I was "discovered" stuck in traffic on Ventura Boulevard and given a record deal, (although I was not a singer). For six months I was under contract as "Ruby Blonde" and was paid to do nothing. Mercifully, the album was never made but I chose to use the free time and money to paint. Inspired by trips through Mexico and Guatemala, I fashioned giant faces from memory, which I painted on oversized pieces of scavenged plywood. I found the act of painting both hypnotic and meditative. So I returned to New York, (via Argentina), to further pursue the serious study of figurative painting technique. We know that in the past realism was discredited as kitsch and blamed for it's ability to appeal to and affect the masses. This inherent accessibility is the reason I choose to paint in the realist tradition. Education Private Study with and assistant to Steven Assael, New York City, 2004-2006 Private Study with and assistant to Odd Nerdrum, Norway, 2005 Independent Study in Europe, Summer 2005 New York Academy of Art, Master Class with Steven Assael, 2004 The Art Students League of New York, Gregg Kreutz, 2002-2004 American Musical and Dramatic Academy, New York City, 1996-1998, Graduate Interlochen Arts Academy, Interlochen, Michigan, 1996, Graduate Solo Exhibitions Rose Freymuth-Frazier: The Virgin and the Unicorn, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago IL, December, 2012 Rose Freymuth-Frazier: Whispering Sisters and the Female Figurative Image, Cress Gallery, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, 2010 Rose Freymuth-Frazier: Variation, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago IL, October 2007 Select Group Exhibitions On Adornment - Pen & Brush, New York City, 2018 Five and Under - Arcadia Contemporary, Pasadena, CA, 2018 35th Anniversary Show - AFA-NYC, New York City, 2018 Realism: Then and Now - Cavalier Galleries, New York City, 2018 Art on Paper Fair - Gallery Victor Armendariz booth, New York City, 2018 Figure 8 - Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL, 2017 Coming Attractions - Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL, 2017 Summer's Ghost - Parlor Gallery, Asbury Park, NJ, 2016 BeinArt Collective Surreal Art Show - Copro Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, 2016 American Realism: Past to Present - Cavalier Galleries, New York City, 2015 Les Petit Fours, International Group Exhibition, (co-curated by Beautiful Bizarre Magazine and Friend's of Leon Gallery) - Friends of Leon Gallery, Sydney, Australia, 2015 Inaugural Group Show - Haven Gallery, New York, 2015 In the Way of Beauty - Parlor Gallery, Asbury Park, NJ, 2015 Benefit Show for the Southampton Animal Shelter - Richard J. Demato Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY, 2015 Rose Freymuth-Frazier, “Prints” at Lay-Low Fine Art in Balearic Islands, Spain, 2015 Contemporary Realism - Cavalier Galleries, Greenwich, Connecticut, 2014 Benefit Show for the Southampton Animal Shelter - Richard J. Demato Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY, 2014 Contemporary Realism - Cavalier Galleries, New York City, 2014 Infusion - Roq La Rue Gallery, Seattle, Washington, 2014 Laluzapalooza - 28th Annual Group Show - La Luz De Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2014 20th Anniversary Group Show - Copro Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, 2013 Mums The Word, curated by Hilary Harkness, Mills Pond House Gallery, New York, NY, 2012 SOFA New York, Park Avenue Armory, New York 2012 Two Faces of Beauty, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago IL, 2010 Art Chicago, Chicago IL, 2010 SOFA New York, Park Avenue Armory, New York 2010 Art Chicago, Chicago IL, 2009 SOFA New York, Park Avenue Armory, New York 2009 Portraits, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2009 Art Chicago, Chicago IL, 2009 SOFA New York, Park Avenue Armory, New York 2009 Art Chicago, Chicago IL, 2008 Palm Beach III, Ann Nathan Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida, 2008 SOFA New York, Park Avenue Armory, New York, 2008 The Painters, Bill Lowe Gallery, Atlanta Georgia, 2007 SOFA New York, Park Avenue Armory, New York, 2007 Art Chicago, Chicago IL, 2007 Above & Beyond, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago IL, 2007 Select Publications and Press Playboy Magazine, Interview - March 30th, 2016 Ms. Magazine, Online Feature - March 10th, 2016 Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, Interview - November 5th, 2015 Featured in “Uno de los Nuestros”, Barcelona, 2015 Hi-Fructose, Online Feature - June 17th, 2014 Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, 12 page Feature, Issue 006, September, 2014 Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, Online Feature, April 18th, 2014 Line & Stylish Art Magazine, “Artist of the Month”, April, 2014 iARTistas Summer Nude Issue, 2014 The Nerdrum School - Orfeus Publishing, 2013 Huffinton Post - May 24th, 2013 The 22 Magazine - Feb. 8th, 2013 Combustus Magazine, December 15th, 2012 Poets and Artists, October, 2012 American Artist Magazine, September, 2012 Creative Quarterly, Winter 2011/2012 Direct Art Magazine, Fall, 2011 Art Papers, January, 2011 American Art Collector Magazine, September, 2010 American Art Collector Magazine - Second Annual Art of the Nude, 2010 Chattanooga Times Free Press, August 29th, 2010 ArtNews, October, 2007 Chicago Tribune, November 9th, 2007 Direct Art Magazine, Spring, 2007 Select Collections The Bennett Collection of Women Realists Seven Bridges Foundation, Greenwich, CT Diane and John Marek Collection, Chattanooga, TN Billy Hunt Collection, Chicago, IL Phil Burgess & Jim Nutter, Chicago, IL Rick Shoemaker & James Ruud, Chicago, IL Joan Berger, Chicago, IL Jack & Gail Witlin, Palm Desert, CA Bill & Tavi Flanagan, Irvine, CA Brian Westphal & Michael McVicker, Chicago, IL Awards and Honors Art Renewal Center’s International Salon - Figurative Category - Finalist, 2013/2014 European Museum of Modern Art, MEAM - Figurativas '13 - Barcelona, Spain - Finalist, 2013 The American Chinese Oil Painting League - Butler Museum Exhibition - Finalist, 2011 John and Diane Marek Visiting Artist Lecture Series, University of TN, Chattanooga, 2010 Chairman of the Board Award, Salmagundi Club, 2006 Al Barker...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Rose Freymuth-Frazier Art

Materials

Panel, Oil

Promise of Spring, Reflective Sky in Pink, Blue, and Gold Tones, Original Oil
By Rose Freymuth-Frazier
Located in Chicago, IL
A sky that is awash in tones of pink, blue, and gold is the subject of Rose Freymuth-Frazier's painting entitled "Promise of Spring". This beautiful combination is reflected on the ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Rose Freymuth-Frazier Art

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Linen, Oil

Redheaded Boy, Young Male Portrait w/ Rose and Butterflies, Framed, Oil on Panel
By Rose Freymuth-Frazier
Located in Chicago, IL
This young male fully takes in the intoxicating scent of the rose as noted by his closed eyes. He is seemingly oblivious to the numerous butterflies flitting around him. His soft r...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Rose Freymuth-Frazier Art

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Oil, Panel

Unbroken, Grey Mare with Flower and Butterfly Mane, Framed Oil Painting
By Rose Freymuth-Frazier
Located in Chicago, IL
This silvery grey mare curls itself around as if she knows the size of the canvas. Her beautiful soft eyes look down so as to show off her intricate mane emblazoned with flowers and...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Rose Freymuth-Frazier Art

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Linen, Oil

Safe Space, Woman On Teal Couch with a Persian Cat and Butterflies, Oil Painting
By Rose Freymuth-Frazier
Located in Chicago, IL
One of Rose Freymuth-Frazier's newest painting is her personal take on self-quarantine. Here a woman clutches her Persian cat dressed in a negligee and long white gloves. Both are ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Rose Freymuth-Frazier Art

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Linen, Oil

Self-Made, Woman Lounging on Teal Couch with Persian Cat, Original Oil Painting
By Rose Freymuth-Frazier
Located in Chicago, IL
We are what we make of ourselves - in "Self-Made" - Rose Freymuth Frazier toys with this idea. The lounging woman, at closer look, isn't lounging at all. She is knitting, smoking, ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Rose Freymuth-Frazier Art

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Linen, Oil

Burning Desire - Original Oil Painting, Soft Light Reflecting Romantic Colors
By Rose Freymuth-Frazier
Located in Chicago, IL
Translucent, shimmering clouds, set upon a pale blue sky, cast their shadows unto the marshy field below in this beautiful landscape painting by Rose Freymuth Frazier. The setting sun casts soft colors of gold, yellow and blue to envelop the scene. Loose brush strokes and layers of paint give this scene depth and dimension. This artwork is framed as pictured. Rose Freymuth Frazier Burning Desire oil on panel 15h x 30w in 38.10h x 76.20w cm RFF031 Rose Freymuth-Frazier Employing the techniques of the past in the service of contemporary exploration, I seek to add a fresh voice to the sometimes venerable, sometimes dusty and archaic tradition of large-scale figurative painting, while subtly addressing the mythology, objectification and subjugation of women. My subjects are at first glance close to home-new mothers, friends, lovers, artists, dancers-but are then quickly placed at a distance via edgy modification, rigorous technique, minimal contexts and composition, and idiosyncratic use of color. I am also interested in social presentation, artifice, and simulation as they relate to my subjects. I hope to peel away a gossamer thin layer of reality, not just to document the real but also to reveal what might be. BIOGRAPHY Given my restless history, it is curious that I became a figurative painter in New York City. My maternal Grandparents fled Hitler's Germany in the late 1930's. After being refused entry to the United States, they were welcomed into the Dominican Republic, where they happily resided in a small orderly bungalow of their own design and made their living as studio photographer and cheese maker for seven years. Amid this exotic island milieu, my mother was born. Similarly, my fraternal grandparents, he being a US medic stationed in New Zealand and she, a seventeen year old Kiwi, met just long enough in the back of an ambulance in the early 1940's for her to come to the US on a steamer eighteen months later with their nine-month-old baby boy: my father. My eventual parents found each other in Nevada City, California, a small Gold Rush town flanked by a river and nestled in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. There they fashioned a life according to their own rules and beliefs, free from the rigid standards of mainstream society. I was born on the floor of an old miner's cabin on a frigid November night in 1977. The midwife, who had learned the art of delivering babies while assisting her grandfather across the moors of Scotland, lived atop an icy ridge, did not own a telephone, and was summoned just in time. She made her living as a welder and considered her midwifery skill a gift. She refused to take money for her services. As payment, my mother, a ceramic sculptor, crafted her a large salad bowl with which to catch future placentas. So for the price of a handcrafted, multi-use salad bowl, (my first brush with art), I came into the world. I grew up in a free-spirited, idyllic wilderness until my existence was reported to the authorities in the form of a birth certificate. At eight years old, after some home schooling and experimental education, I was finally sent to public school. By sixteen I left the small town and moved in with my older brother who lived by the sea. A year later I applied and was accepted to the Interlochen Arts Academy in Northern Michigan where I spent my senior year of high school. At eighteen years old, I came to New York City on a scholarship to study theater. The city dazzled me, but after completing the term of study-and perhaps echoing my mother's flight from Barnard on a motorcycle years before-I headed back west, this time to Los Angeles where I landed in a Hollywood Boulevard youth hostel. It was in the culturally diverse atmosphere of Southern California, amid the palms, cars, and birds of paradise that I began to paint. In a twist of fate that only Hollywood could deliver, I was "discovered" stuck in traffic on Ventura Boulevard and given a record deal, (although I was not a singer). For six months I was under contract as "Ruby Blonde" and was paid to do nothing. Mercifully, the album was never made but I chose to use the free time and money to paint. Inspired by trips through Mexico and Guatemala, I fashioned giant faces from memory, which I painted on oversized pieces of scavenged plywood. I found the act of painting both hypnotic and meditative. So I returned to New York, (via Argentina), to further pursue the serious study of figurative painting technique. We know that in the past realism was discredited as kitsch and blamed for it's ability to appeal to and affect the masses. This inherent accessibility is the reason I choose to paint in the realist tradition. Education Private Study with and assistant to Steven Assael, New York City, 2004-2006 Private Study with and assistant to Odd Nerdrum, Norway, 2005 Independent Study in Europe, Summer 2005 New York Academy of Art, Master Class with Steven Assael, 2004 The Art Students League of New York, Gregg Kreutz, 2002-2004 American Musical and Dramatic Academy, New York City, 1996-1998, Graduate Interlochen Arts Academy, Interlochen, Michigan, 1996, Graduate Solo Exhibitions Rose Freymuth-Frazier: The Virgin and the Unicorn, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago IL, December, 2012 Rose Freymuth-Frazier: Whispering Sisters and the Female Figurative Image, Cress Gallery, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, 2010 Rose Freymuth-Frazier: Variation, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago IL, October 2007 Select Group Exhibitions On Adornment - Pen & Brush, New York City, 2018 Five and Under - Arcadia Contemporary, Pasadena, CA, 2018 35th Anniversary Show - AFA-NYC, New York City, 2018 Realism: Then and Now - Cavalier Galleries, New York City, 2018 Art on Paper Fair - Gallery Victor Armendariz booth, New York City, 2018 Figure 8 - Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL, 2017 Coming Attractions - Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL, 2017 Summer's Ghost - Parlor Gallery, Asbury Park, NJ, 2016 BeinArt Collective Surreal Art Show - Copro Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, 2016 American Realism: Past to Present - Cavalier Galleries, New York City, 2015 Les Petit Fours, International Group Exhibition, (co-curated by Beautiful Bizarre Magazine and Friend's of Leon Gallery) - Friends of Leon Gallery, Sydney, Australia, 2015 Inaugural Group Show - Haven Gallery, New York, 2015 In the Way of Beauty - Parlor Gallery, Asbury Park, NJ, 2015 Benefit Show for the Southampton Animal Shelter - Richard J. Demato Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY, 2015 Rose Freymuth-Frazier, “Prints” at Lay-Low Fine Art in Balearic Islands, Spain, 2015 Contemporary Realism - Cavalier Galleries, Greenwich, Connecticut, 2014 Benefit Show for the Southampton Animal Shelter - Richard J. Demato Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY, 2014 Contemporary Realism - Cavalier Galleries, New York City, 2014 Infusion - Roq La Rue Gallery, Seattle, Washington, 2014 Laluzapalooza - 28th Annual Group Show - La Luz De Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2014 20th Anniversary Group Show - Copro Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, 2013 Mums The Word, curated by Hilary Harkness, Mills Pond House Gallery, New York, NY, 2012 SOFA New York, Park Avenue Armory, New York 2012 Two Faces of Beauty, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago IL, 2010 Art Chicago, Chicago IL, 2010 SOFA New York, Park Avenue Armory, New York 2010 Art Chicago, Chicago IL, 2009 SOFA New York, Park Avenue Armory, New York 2009 Portraits, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2009 Art Chicago, Chicago IL, 2009 SOFA New York, Park Avenue Armory, New York 2009 Art Chicago, Chicago IL, 2008 Palm Beach III, Ann Nathan Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida, 2008 SOFA New York, Park Avenue Armory, New York, 2008 The Painters, Bill Lowe Gallery, Atlanta Georgia, 2007 SOFA New York, Park Avenue Armory, New York, 2007 Art Chicago, Chicago IL, 2007 Above & Beyond, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago IL, 2007 Select Publications and Press Playboy Magazine, Interview - March 30th, 2016 Ms. Magazine, Online Feature - March 10th, 2016 Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, Interview - November 5th, 2015 Featured in “Uno de los Nuestros”, Barcelona, 2015 Hi-Fructose, Online Feature - June 17th, 2014 Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, 12 page Feature, Issue 006, September, 2014 Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, Online Feature, April 18th, 2014 Line & Stylish Art Magazine, “Artist of the Month”, April, 2014 iARTistas Summer Nude Issue, 2014 The Nerdrum School - Orfeus Publishing, 2013 Huffinton Post - May 24th, 2013 The 22 Magazine - Feb. 8th, 2013 Combustus Magazine, December 15th, 2012 Poets and Artists, October, 2012 American Artist Magazine, September, 2012 Creative Quarterly, Winter 2011/2012 Direct Art Magazine, Fall, 2011 Art Papers, January, 2011 American Art Collector Magazine, September, 2010 American Art Collector Magazine - Second Annual Art of the Nude, 2010 Chattanooga Times Free Press, August 29th, 2010 ArtNews, October, 2007 Chicago Tribune, November 9th, 2007 Direct Art Magazine, Spring, 2007 Select Collections The Bennett Collection of Women Realists Seven Bridges Foundation, Greenwich, CT Diane and John Marek Collection, Chattanooga, TN Billy Hunt Collection, Chicago, IL Phil Burgess & Jim Nutter, Chicago, IL Rick Shoemaker & James Ruud, Chicago, IL Joan Berger, Chicago, IL Jack & Gail Witlin, Palm Desert, CA Bill & Tavi Flanagan, Irvine, CA Brian Westphal & Michael McVicker, Chicago, IL Awards and Honors Art Renewal Center’s International Salon - Figurative Category - Finalist, 2013/2014 European Museum of Modern Art, MEAM - Figurativas '13 - Barcelona, Spain - Finalist, 2013 The American Chinese Oil Painting League - Butler Museum Exhibition - Finalist, 2011 John and Diane Marek Visiting Artist Lecture Series, University of TN, Chattanooga, 2010 Chairman of the Board Award, Salmagundi Club, 2006 Al Barker...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Rose Freymuth-Frazier Art

Materials

Oil, Panel

Tangerine Sky - Original Oil Painting Soft Light Reflecting Romantic Colors
By Rose Freymuth-Frazier
Located in Chicago, IL
This beautiful landscape painting depicts the sun setting over a marshy field. The brilliant light of the sun casts its golden rays upon everything it touches, including the tangerine colored sky. The soft colors of gold, orange and yellow envelop the scene. Loose brush strokes and layers of paint give this scene depth and dimension. This artwork is framed as pictured. Rose Freymuth...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Rose Freymuth-Frazier Art

Materials

Oil, Panel

Blue Mountains - Original Oil Painting with Soft Light and Romantic Colors
By Rose Freymuth-Frazier
Located in Chicago, IL
This beautiful painting depicts light passing through clouds in a romantic marsh setting and a mist covered mountain. The soft colors, gold, green orange and yellow and blue envelop the scene. Loose brush strokes and layers of paint give this scene depth and dimension. Rose Freymuth...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Rose Freymuth-Frazier Art

Materials

Linen, Oil

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