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Gregory William Frux
Born (1958-03-25) March 25, 1958 (age 66)
Brooklyn, New York
NationalityAmerican
EducationBrooklyn Museum Art School, Art Students League, National Academy of Design
Known forPainting
MovementRealism

Gregory William Frux (born March 25, 1958) is a traditional realist artist, working mainly in the landscape genre. His oil paintings document both New York’s cityscapes and wilderness locations in North and South America.

Life and career

Gregory Frux was born in Brooklyn, New York on March 25, 1958. His father was an engineer and later school teacher who emigrated from Lvov, Poland in August 1939. His mother was grade school math teacher, who later taught adult literacy. It was through their teaching and example that Frux developed his passion for art and for his native city. Gregory Frux married artist Janet Ellen Morgan in 1990.

Frux pursued art training art at the Brooklyn Museum Art School, Art Students League and National Academy of Design where he studied with Harvey Dinnerstein while simultaneously earning a Bachelor of Architecture and subsequent license as an architect. From 1983 to 1989 Frux worked as an Architect for the New York City Board of Education (BOE) designing school additions and modernizations. In order to pursue his passion for art in public schools, in 1989 Frux moved to the newly created Public Art for Public Schools unit of the BOE, which is responsible for protection of 1500 works of art owned The City of New York. As a curator Frux catalogued, protected and helped conserved this significant collection from 1989 to 2006.

While working for the Board of Education, Frux completed his Master of Fine Arts from Brooklyn College in 1986, studying with noted realist Lennart Anderson.[1] After coursework in Carrara, Italy in 1984 he became increasingly dedicated to outdoor painting. Frux worked most often in Lower Manhattan, along the East River, and in Brooklyn’s Park Slope, Coney Island and on the Gowanus Canal, painting on site in oils. Frux is deeply engaged with the layers of urban history seen in abandoned and repurposed buildings, industrial architecture, and the resurgence of nature along the harbor. His cityscapes have received recognition with exhibitions at Brooklyn Borough Hall, Brooklyn College, the Coney Island Museum [2], Long Island University, Central Library Brooklyn Public Library,[2] The Tabla Rasa Gallery[3] and a commission by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority of New York.[4]

Frux is deeply interested in the wilderness both aesthetically and as mountaineer. His climbing career has dovetailed with creative work in increasingly remote locations. Frux has served as artist in residence in four national park units: Weir Farm National Historic Site in Wilton, Ct, Glacier National Park, Joshua Tree National Park[5] and Death Valley National Park. He has painted in the Rockies, Andes, Sierra Nevada, and Mohave Desert, including ‘portraits’ of significant peaks such as Cerro Fitzroy, Sajama and Lotus Flower Tower. This work have been included in the permanent collection of the National Park Service and exhibited by the American Alpine Club. In December 2007 Frux traveled as artist in residence aboard the cruise ship Orlova to the Antarctic Peninsula [3]; his paintings of "Half Moon Bay, South Shetland Islands"[6] have been published as a print. He worked as an artist aboard ship "Midnatsol" in Arctic Norway, November–December 2009.

Publications

Collections

Institutional Collections

  • Death Valley National Park [4]
  • Joshua Tree National Park[10]
  • Glacier National Park
  • Metrotech, B.I.D.
  • National Museum of Art of Kyrgyzstan
  • New York City Department of Education [5]
  • Metropolitan Transportation Authority [6]
  • New York University—Fales Library and Special Collection [7]
  • Universal Diagnostic Laboratories
  • United States Library of Congress

Shown on loan

  • United States Embassies in Madagascar and Ethiopia under the Federal Art in the Embassies Program

[8]

Private Collections

  • Maria Henle (estate) artist & master printmaker [9]
  • Nomi Silverman artist & printmaker [10]
  • Kevin Burke, President & CEO of Con Edison
  • Samuel Delany, Hugo Award winning science fiction author and scholar [11]
  • Steven Larsen, author of Shaman's Doorway, Center for Symbolic Studies
  • Warrington Colescott Warrington Colescott, master printmaker
  • Alex Grey, visionary artist [12]
  • Deborah Chaney, master printmaker [13]

Notes

  1. ^ http://www.lennartanderson.com/
  2. ^ http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/events/exhibitions/2010/bklynlandscape.jsp
  3. ^ http://www.tablarasagallery.com/
  4. ^ [1]
  5. ^ http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1216/is_2_210/ai_97176068/
  6. ^ http://www.artslivemedia.com/online-gallery/limited-edition-prints/half-moon-bay/
  7. ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/23/nyregion/neighborhood-report-park-slope-in-praise-of-urban-landscape.html
  8. ^ http://archive.pahrumpvalleytimes.com/2005/07/01/news/dvartists.html
  9. ^ http://www.artcalendar.com/news/2001/jan01/writers-and-staff/
  10. ^ http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1216/is_2_210/ai_97176068/
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