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Nancy Marlene Friese
Born1948 (age 75–76)
Fargo, North Dakota, U.S.
EducationUniversity of North Dakota (BS),
Yale University (MFA)
Occupation(s)Visual artist, printmaker, educator
Known forPlein air painting and prints, watercolorist
Websitewww.nancyfriese.com

Nancy Marlene Friese (born 1948) is an American painter, printmaker, and educator. She is known for landscape paintings, and prints which are often colorful. Friese is a professor at Rhode Island School of Design, and an elected National Academician in the National Academy of Design in New York City.[1] She has exhibited both nationally and internationally in 30 solo, and 170 group shows.[1]

Early life and education

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She was born in 1948, in Fargo, North Dakota,[2] and was raised in Ohio.[1] Her great-grandfather had a homestead in Buxton, North Dakota.[1]

She holds a BS degree (1970) in nursing from University of North Dakota, and an MFA degree (1980) in painting and printmaking from Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut.[3][4][5] Friese also studied in the graduate painting program at the University of California, Berkeley, and studied both printmaking and painting at the Art Academy of Cincinnati in the late 1970s.[4]

Career

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Friese has consistently worked as a plein air artist for much of her career.

"A sense of the local is central to Nancy Friese’s work, which documents places and events that are specific and personal, while offering them up to be shared by the viewer. Friese is a landscape artist, and, though she lives and works most of the year in Rhode Island, she spends several weeks each summer in rural Buxton, North Dakota, on the land her great-grandfather homesteaded when he emigrated from Norway."[6]

She captures images in watercolor and oil or acrylic paints, with prints created through woodcuts, etchings, drypoints and monotypes, and ties visual observations to experience.[1][7] The Boston Globe writes about Friese's Long Summer Light as presenting "the bounty of an old tree's vast summer boughs as they stretch over a honeyed field".[8]

A faculty member at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) since 1990,[5] Friese has "served as a board member for the College Art Association, the RISD Museum, North Dakota Museum of Art Foundation, FirstWorks Providence, and Buxton in Bloom North Dakota, and she has been a repeat juror with the National Endowment for the Arts, and Japan US Friendship Commission in Washington, D.C.".[1]

In 1990, she was one of three American artists selected as 'Artists at Giverny' to live and paint at Claude Monet's estate in Giverny in Normandy, France, funded by the Reader's Digest.[9]

Collections

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Friese's work is held in numerous public collections, including the Boston Public Library; the Florence Griswold Museum, in Connecticut;[10] Hammer Museum at the University of California, Los Angeles; the National Museum of Women in the Arts, in Washington, D.C.;[11][12] Muscarelle Museum of Art, in Virginia; Museum of Fine Arts Boston;[13] the New York Public Library; the North Dakota Museum of Art;[14] the RISD Museum in Rhode Island; and the Yale University Art Gallery, in Connecticut,[15] among many others.[16][17]

Exhibitions

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Solo and two-person exhibitions

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  • 1987, MacKenzie Gallery, College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio[18]
  • 1990, Nancy Friese: New Work, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, North Dakota
  • 1990, Landscapes by Nancy Friese, University Center Gallery, University of Montana, Missoula, Montana[19]
  • 1992, Paintings and Prints, Cornell University Hartell Gallery, Ithaca, New York
  • 1994, Japanese Impressions: Prints by Nancy Friese and Keiji Shinohara, Bannister Gallery, Rhode Island College, Providence, Rhode Island
  • 1999, Nancy Friese and Henry Finkelstein, Simon Gallery, Morristown, New Jersey[20]
  • 2001, Nancy Friese: Watercolors, Pepper Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
  • 2002, Re-Imaging New York, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, North Dakota[21]
  • 2007, Nancy Friese: From Nature, Alva Gallery, New London, Connecticut[22]
  • 2011, Translating Nature: Prints by Nancy Friese, Art Academy of Cincinnati, Ohio
  • 2016, Encircling Trees and Radiant Skies, (traveling exhibition), Newport Art Museum in Newport, Rhode Island;[23] North Dakota Museum of Art in Grand Forks, North Dakota; Alexandre Hogue Gallery at University of Tulsa in Tulsa, Oklahoma[24]
  • 2022, Eloquent Landscapes: 1982–2022, Cade Tompkins Projects, Providence, Rhode Island

Group exhibitions

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  • 1990, Moving the Margins I, Emily Davis Gallery, Akron, Ohio[25]
  • 1998, Six Painters, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island; members of the Rhode Island Chapter of the National Museum of Women[11]
  • 2009, Simmons Collects: Celebrating Woman Artists, Trustman Gallery, Simmons College (now Simmons University), Boston, Massachusetts[26]
  • 2011, 1st National Exhibition of Intaglio Prints: The National Arts Club, The National Arts Club, New York City, New York; curated by Roberta Waddell
  • 2012, The Annual 2012, National Academy Museum, New York City, New York
  • 2015, 189th Annual Exhibition, National Academy Museum, New York City, New York
  • 2020, Master Drawings New York, New York City, New York
  • 2021–2022, On the Basis of Art: 150 Years of Women at Yale, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut[27]
  • 2024, 191st Annual: Academy Style, National Academy of Design, New York City, New York[28]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f Knudson, Pamela (2016-08-26). "Artist Nancy Friese: Beauty of the wide open". Grand Forks Herald. Retrieved 2024-09-02.
  2. ^ "Nancy Friese". New American Paintings, Issue 20. Open Studios Press. 1999. p. 71.
  3. ^ Donnelly, Erin; Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (2004). Site Matters: The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's World Trade Center Artists Residency, 1997-2001. The Council. p. 292. ISBN 978-0-9726973-1-6.
  4. ^ a b Friese, Nancy (2017-11-06). "Bright Entry". Living Art Museum Across the Campus.
  5. ^ a b "Nancy Friese". NetWorks Rhode Island. 2011-06-14. Retrieved 2024-09-30.
  6. ^ "Past exhibitions: Nancy Friese: Encircling Trees and Radiant Skies". North Dakota Museum of Art. Retrieved 2024-09-05.
  7. ^ "An Exhibition in the Hogue Gallery by TU Visiting Artist Nancy Friese". Public Radio Tulsa. 2015-11-11. Retrieved 2024-09-02.
  8. ^ McQuaid, Cate (March 4, 2021). "Art blossoms into 'Paradise' at Cade Tompkins Projects". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 2024-08-10.
  9. ^ "3 Americans selected as 'Artists at Giverny;". The Plain Dealer. 1990-07-05. p. 20. Retrieved 2024-10-01 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ Lansing, Amy Kurtz (2017-01-27). "Exhibition Note: Viewing the River". Florence Griswold Museum. Retrieved 2024-09-02.
  11. ^ a b Mahdesian, Linda (May 29, 1998). "The David Winton Bell Gallery will showcase Six Painters June 13 – July 12". The Brown University News Bureau. Retrieved 2024-09-02.
  12. ^ "History of Women Artists in the United States: 19th Century to the 1960s; essay by Nancy Noble". tfaoi.org. New Britain Museum of American Art. Retrieved 2024-09-02.
  13. ^ "Tremendous Trees". MFA Boston. Retrieved 2024-09-02.
  14. ^ "Nancy Friese: Encircling Trees and Radiant Skies". North Dakota Museum of Art. Retrieved 2024-09-02.
  15. ^ "Before the Rain, from The Peterdi Years: Alumni Portfolio". Yale University Art Gallery. Retrieved 2024-09-02.
  16. ^ "Nancy Friese". Tamarind Institute. Retrieved 2024-09-02.
  17. ^ Solomon, Matt. "INTRODUCTION". Issuu. Retrieved 2024-09-02.
  18. ^ "Akron man's Medieval books shown by Dorothy Shinn". The Akron Beacon Journal. 1987-11-22. p. 38. Retrieved 2024-10-01 – via Newspapers.com.
  19. ^ "Artist Nancy Friese brushes bright color into the landscape by Theresa Johnson". The Missoulian. 1990-11-09. p. 44. Retrieved 2024-10-01 – via Newspapers.com.
  20. ^ "Representational art has its appeal by Marion Filler". Daily Record. 1999-01-30. p. 23. Retrieved 2024-10-01 – via Newspapers.com.
  21. ^ "New York artists come to N.D." The Bismarck Tribune. Reuters. 2002-08-14. p. 13. Retrieved 2024-10-01 – via Newspapers.com.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  22. ^ "Nancy Friese: New Works From Nature". The Day. June 21, 2007. p. 46. Retrieved 2024-09-30 – via Newspapers.com.
  23. ^ Work-Shop. "Newport Art Museum". newportartmuseum.org. Retrieved 2024-09-02.
  24. ^ "The University of Tulsa Kendall College of Arts & Sciences Magazine - Fall 2016 by The University of Tulsa - Issuu". issuu.com. 2016-11-17. Retrieved 2024-09-02.
  25. ^ Cullinan, Helen (1990-01-21). "Akron U. art show plumbs options". The Plain Dealer. p. 146. Retrieved 2024-10-01 – via Newspapers.com.
  26. ^ "The Urban Wild : Trustman Art Gallery". Simmons University. 2009. Retrieved 2024-09-02.
  27. ^ "On the basis of art 150 years of women at Yale introduction by Elisabeth Hodermarsky ; essays by Helen A. Cooper, Linda Konheim Kramer and Marta Kuzma ; and contributions by Emily Arensman and fifteen others ; with research assistance by Edi Dai". Smithsonian Libraries and Archives. 2021. Retrieved 2024-09-02.
  28. ^ "191st Annual: Academy Style". National Academy of Design (NAD). June 20, 2024. Retrieved 2024-09-02.
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