 A native New Yorker and son of a renowned painter and art teacher, Fred received his formal art training at New York’s famed Pratt Institute. He began his professional art career as a promotion designer and staff artist for a newspaper syndicate illustrating fashion columns and international features. He has illustrated for numerous publications and ad agencies, specializing in portraits of business and technology leaders, sport celebrities, and political dignitaries. Fred has produced several hundred private portrait commissions. Fred has served as art director for Sport Magazine, McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., Penton Publishing, and was on the art staff of Look, and Venture Magazines. He was also the proprietor and creative director of his own marketing and advertising agency for over a decade. Fred has maintained a dual career for over forty years as an award-winning art director/illustrator, and as a watercolor/oil painter-teacher. With all this, he has continually painted for himself. Fred favors watercolors and oils. He studied several years with famed watercolorist, Edgar Whitney, AWS, who gave Fred a special love for the medium. The richness of color and subtleness of statement in both watercolors and oils allow Fred’s impressions to show through his subject matter in a “Rockwellesque” style. His eclectic choices of subject matter range through introspective conceptual painting, landscapes, equine life, depictions of Native Americans, building facades, portrait commissions, and most important of all, just plain people. His portraits are in the private collections of universities, colleges, equine breeders, healthcare facilities, religious orders, State Courts of New York, and others. His range of subjects includes children, rural and equine life, period architecture, Native American heritage, and just plain folks. Fred’s impressions show reflections of the present, and a curiosity of days gone by. He loves to tell stories through his art, evoking melancholy feelings and a sense of being there. His uncanny realism incorporates a sense of timelessness, and human emotions. The reflections of love and respect for people, animals, and particularly horses is eminently clear in his finished art.. Over the years, Fred’s work has led him back to his roots. His home community has seen dramatic growth and change over time inspiring a retrospective nostalgic documentation of Staten Island and New York City. This work was acclaimed as a critical success. All his subjects continue to prove very popular with critics and collectors alike. Fred has exhibited in galleries in Manhattan, Staten Island, Long Island, New York’s Catskill counties, and various galleries in New Jersey earning monetary grants and awards in numerous juried exhibitions. His commercial art and design have been shown and honored at the New York Art Directors Club, the Illustrators Society, The Publication Designers Society, and the American Business Press. Fred is a faculty member of the Art Lab at the Snug Harbor Cultural Center of Staten Island, and the Catskill Art Society in Livingston Manor, N.Y. He also teaches privately in his studios. His courses run the gamut from basic figure drawing and painting, to impressionistic concepts and portfolio preparation. Fred maintains a studio in his home on Staten Island and a summer studio in Roscoe, N.Y. |
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