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Gudrun Mertes-Frady

1939
Cologne, Germany

10 Works exhibited on Kooness

Current location

New York City

Represented by

IdeelArt , London - GB

Works by Gudrun Mertes-Frady

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The Secret Life of Plants

2022

Paintings , Ink

91.5 x 63.5cm

2044,00 €

Shooting Stars

2022

Paintings , Ink

91.5 x 63.5cm

2044,00 €

Clouds

2021

Paintings

48.2 x 60.9 x 0.1cm

1623,00 €

Opposing Currents no.III

2021

Paintings , Oil , Acrylic

61 x 61 x 3.8cm

3245,00 €

Opposing Currents no.II

2021

Paintings , Oil , Acrylic

61 x 61 x 3.8cm

3245,00 €

Opposing Currents no.I

2021

Paintings , Oil , Acrylic

61 x 61 x 3.8cm

3245,00 €

About the Artist

Gudrun Mertes-Frady is a New York-based abstract artist whose work blends geometric structure with intuitive, painterly explorations of color and line. Education Mertes-Frady was born in Cologne, Germany. She studied painting and art history at the Cologne Academy of Fine and Applied Arts. She has lived and worked in New York City since 1981. Technique Mertes-Frady shifts her practice between painting and drawing. Her processes for the two are quite different. Her drawings manifest quickly and intuitively as she applies multiple layers of Conte crayon, graphite, charcoal and metallic crayon to hand-made sheets of Japanese paper, such as Kozo (made from mulberry trees) or Gampi (made from the gampi bush). Her work on mylar evolve over a longer period of time. Using a mixture of ink and water based media, she creates layered, expressionistic, abstract compositions, often using both the front and back of the semi-translucent surface in order to add dimensionality and depth. Her paintings are all oil on canvas, linen and sometime wood panel. She frequently includes pigments of aluminum and graphite. This metallic media becomes activated by ambient light, creating a kinetic effect when the work is viewed from different angles. (All the white appearing lines in some of her paintings are actually metallic oil paint and change from soft grey to a luminous silver.) Inspiration Raised in a family of architects, Mertes-Frady learned early on to appreciate the visual language of the grid. Her background led her to appreciate the structure of paintings by Constructivist artists like Malevich and Bauhaus artists like Mondrian. Throughout her career she has experimented with many different mediums and techniques, but has always relied on the geometry of the grid for stability. Even her more lyrical, “all-over” drawings are underpinned by an architectonic arrangement of space. Despite their structured appearance, however, Mertes-Frady never plans her compositions in advance. She is inspired by instinct and intuition. By freeing herself to react in the moment to arbitrary choices about color, texture, and line, unexpected and beautiful contrasts are allowed to develop between the architectonic structure of the work and its painterly spirit. Relevant Quotes In an essay about the work of Mertes-Frady, acclaimed art journalist Lilly Wei writes, “Her work continues to radiate a light.....an illumination that is almost seasonal, from reticence of a pale wintry day to the glow of spring, the glare of summer to more sombre casts, the sensation shifting from a crystalline delicacy to a slow sonorous rumble....There is also what lies beneath, which comes up like pentimenti: history, genealogy, archaeology, traces that are both process and poetics.” Exhibitions Mertes-Frady has had more than 20 solo exhibitions in the U.S. and Europe. Collections Her work is in many public, private, and corporate collections, including that of Rockefeller University, Universal Music, The Busch Reisinger Museum, Gwynneth Paltrow, the American Embassy in Dubai, and many others.

Curriculum Vitae

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2018 Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY 2016 Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, Bridgehampton, NY 2015 Cynthia Reeves, MASS MoCA Way, North Adams, MA 2014 Michael Trierweiler Contemporary Art, Weimar, Germany 2013 Mark Wolf Contemporary, San Francisco, CA 2010 Piquion+Trierweiler, Weimar, Germany 2010 ART Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany 2009 Maud Piquion, Berlin, Germany 2009 Cynthia-Reeves, New York, NY 2007 Reeves-Contemporary, New York, NY 2007 Spheris Gallery, Hanover, NH 2005 Reeves-Contemporary, New York, NY 2003 Rosenberg + Kaufman Fine Art, New York, NY 2002 Rosenberg + Kaufman Fine Art, New York, NY 2000 Rosenberg + Kaufman Fine Art, New York, NY 1999 Rosenberg + Kaufman Fine Art, New York, NY 1997 Rosenberg + Kaufman Fine Art, New York, NY 1995 Rosenberg + Kaufman Fine Art, New York, NY 1994 Stephen Rosenberg Gallery, New York, NY 1992 Stephen Rosenberg Gallery, New York, NY 1991 Galerie Lommel, Cologne-Leverkusen, Germany SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2016 “Metalpoint and Graphite” Cynthia Reeves, Walpole, NH 2015 "August Geometry”, Maria Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA 2015 Art in Embassies, Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei 2015 Sideshow Nation III, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn 2015 Paperazzi, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2014 Paper Show, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2014 Sideshow Nation II, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2013 Sideshow Nation, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2012 “Paper Bands”, Jason MCCoy Gallery, New York, NY 2012 Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY 2012 “Mic : Check”, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2011 Mark Wolf Contemporary, San Francisco, CA 2011 “Divergent Affinities”, Wexler Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, curated by Barbara Harberger 2008 Nuture Art Benefit, curated by Lilly Wei, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY 2008 “Small Works Show”, 80 Washington Square Galleries, New York, NY 2007 Reeves-Contemporary, New York, NY 2005 Spheris Gallery, Hanover, NH 2003 “A Common Thread”, Hennepin County Government Center, Saint Paul, MN 2002 “Here is New York”, Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC “Here is New York”, Les Recontres d’Arles, Arles, France “Here is New York”, Martin Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany “Here is New York”, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY “Here is new York”, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL “Here is New York”, University of California, Berkley, CA 2001 “Synopsis”, Rosenberg + Kaufman Fine Art, New York, NY 2001 “Art 2001”, e1 Gallery, London, England 2000 “Sun Signs”, Rosenberg + Kaufman Fine Art, New York, NY 2000 “(Un)Resolved”, Rosenberg + Kaufman Fine Art, New York, NY 1996 Art Initiative Gallery, New York, NY Group exhibition, curated by Stephen Rosenberg 1994 “Summer Solstice”, Stephen Rosenberg Gallery, New York, NY curated by Fran Kaufman 1993 "Cadavre Exquis", The Drawing Center, New York, NY 1993 "The Tenth Summer", Stephen Rosenberg Gallery, New York, NY

Bibliography

2016

Charles A, Riley II, Hamptons Art Hub, August 31

2015

Jerry Cullum, Arts Atlanta, Atlanra, GA, August 26

2011

Edith Newhall, Phil adelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, PA, January 17

2009

Martin Stolzenberg, TLZ, Weimar, Germany, December 9

2009

Andrea Hilgenstock, Die Welt, Berlin, Germany, November 17

2009

Jens Hindrichsen, Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin, Germany, November 3

2007

Constance Wyndham, Artnews, May

2007

Mario Naves, Catalogue Essay, Reeves-Contemporary

2007

Joseph Wallentini, Review, Abstract Art On Line, April

2004

Edward Leffingwell, Art in America, May

2003

Ann Landi, ARTnews, December

2003

Mario Naves, New York Observer, October 1

2002

Lilly Wei, Catalog Essay, Rosenberg+Kaufman Fine Art, NYC

2000

Ken Johnson, The New York Times, November 3

2000

Joseph Wallentini, Review, Abstract Art on Line, November

1999

Joseph Wallentini, Artist Profile, Abstract Art on Line, June

1999

Jeannie Wilkinson, Catalogue Essay, Rosenberg + Kaufman Fine Art, NYC

1999

Joseph Wallentini, Artist Profile, Abstract Art on Line, June

1997

Lissa McClure, Review Magazine

1997

Arlene Raven, Catalog Essay, Rosenberg+Kaufman Fine Art, NYC

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Gudrun Mertes-Frady

Works by Gudrun Mertes-Frady

The Secret Life of Plants

Love Letter

Shooting Stars

Tide meets the River

City moves II

Fire and ice

Clouds

Opposing Currents no.III

Opposing Currents no.II

Opposing Currents no.I

About the Artist

Curriculum Vitae

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