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Gwendolyn Fryer
2603 Huntington Ave.
Sarasota Fl. 34232
(941) 925-7901
Fryer, daughter of a petroleum geophysicist, was born in Paris. Following
her father’s oil discoveries throughout Europe and North Africa, she spent
her most formative years in Tripoli, Libya. There, she experienced the 6
day WAR in 1967, evacuated to Naples, Italy. The Libyan REVOLUTION
followed in 1969. Fryer was sixteen when she came to the US.
 Working, for many years, in the demanding circumstances of Critical Care
and Cardiac nursing, she discovered Art as a necessary, visual form of
expression.
Fryer graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and became
its first exchange student to the Ecole Des Beaux Arts in PARIS. She
returned to Africa in 1994.
Fryer currently resides in Sarasota, Florida. Her work has been seen at
the American Legation Museum in Tangiers, Morocco. She has shown at the
University of Pennsylvania, the Susquahanna and State Museums in
Harrisburg selected for “Art of the State” four consecutive years. Fryer
is currently exhibiting in a 3 year traveling show organized by the Fuller
Craft Museum, in Massachusetts, curated by Lloyd Herman of the
Smithsonian.
Selected
Solo Exhibitions *
2007 *” Gwen Fryer” Selby Gallery, Ringling School of Art and Design,
Sarasota, FL.
2006 *” Fragments of my heart”, Women’s Resource Center, Sarasota,
Florida.
2005 *” Evensong” NEXUS FOUNDATION FOR TODAYS ART, Philadelphia, PA.
2004 * “ Hit Me!” NEXUS FOUNDATION FOR TODAYS ART, new members show.
2002 *”Pas de Deux” (2) Marc and Gwendolyn Fryer, Salon Des Amis Gallery,
Malvern, PA
2001 *“The Light“Mainline Unitarian Church, Wayne, PA.
*”Transfiguration“Rosemont College, Rosemont, PA.Curator: P. Nugent.
2000 *“Innur“Constructions and Paintings by Gwendolyn Fryer. University
City
Science Center, Esther Klein Gallery, Phila., PA. Curator: Libby Newman.
Selected Group Shows
2007 “Trashformations East” Southern Ohio Museum of Art, Portsmouth, Ohio.
2006 “Trashformations East” COPIA, Napa Valley, CA. Juror: Lloyd Herman of
Smithsonian
Institute, Renwick Gallery. Traveling show 2005-2008.
“Trashformations East” Lancaster Art Museum, Lancaster, PA.
“Women Contemporary Artists, juried Spring Show” Ringling School of Art
and Design.
“Combined Talents: Florida International” FSU Museum of Fine Arts,
Tallahassee, FL.
2005 “Trashformation East” Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton Mass.. Juror:
Lloyd Herman
2004 “State of the Art” Arlington Art Center. Cindy Morrison, curator,
Lancaster Museum of Art
“A Show of Hands” Moore College of Art., Phila, PA
2003 “Art of the State” Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg PA.
“Inliquid at the Painted Bride: Repetition: Day after Day”, Painted Bride
Art Center, Phila. PA
2002 “105th Members Exhibition” Penn Academy of the Fine Arts,
Curator: S. Rosenberg PMA, PA
2001 “Art of the State” State Museum, Harrisburg, PA. Jurors: Judith
Dolkart (Brooklyn Museum of Art) and Kathryn Galitz (Metropolitan Museum
of Art).
2000 “Art of the State” State Museum, Harrisburg, PA Curators: Angela
Adams (National Museum of Women in the Arts), S. Phillips from the
Phillips Collection.
1999 “Art of the State” State Museum, Harrisburg, PA. Jurors: J. Mahoney
(Editor Art in America) and P. Turner (Corcoran Museum)
“Confronting Cancer through Art” Arthur Ross Gallery, University of
Pennsylvania, PA.
Curator: D. Winnegrad, J. Stein (Critic), P. Guylai (Painter)
1998 “New Works” Curator: Julie Heller from Julie Heller Gallery,
Provincetown, Mass.
1997 “A Show of Hands” Institute of Contemporary Art, Phila, PA.
Selected Bibliography
Kevin Costello, Sarasota Herald Tribune, “Sarasota Artists calls for
Religious Harmony through her work” July 2, 2006
Libby Rosof, Critic Philadelphia Weekly, Gwendolyn Fryer at Nexus,
Philadelphia, PA. Feb. 9th 2004.
Victoria Donohue, Philadelphia Inquirer, “Salon des Amis” June 23, 2002.
R.B Strauss, The Kennett Paper, “ Beyond the Whole” June 13, 2002.
R. Fallon, Philadelphia Weekly, “Sketches & Round up Notes on Worthy
Shows” Dec. 2000.
D. Shimmel, Art Matters, “The Alchemy of Found Objects” November, 2000.
Select Public and Private Collections
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Fellowship Collection,
Philadelphia, PA.
American Legation Museum, Tangiers, Morocco.
Archeveche de Paris, France. Collection: Monsignor Pierre Boz.
Awards
1995 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Fellowship Purchase Prize.
Commissions
1996 Ikon Records: Album Cover, Billy Freeze “Shelter”, Philly Breeze
Music.
1999 Mural Arts Program, Mural Manayunk, with Patricia Ingersoll.
Education
1993-1994 Ecole Nationale Superieur Des Beaux Arts, Paris, France.
1989-1993 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA.
1976-1980 Bryn Mawr Hospital School of Nursing, Bryn Mawr, PA.
1975-1976 Trenton State University, Trenton, NJ.
Selected Lectures
2005 Artist Lecture NEXUS Foundation for Today’s Art, Philadelphia, PA.
2001 Guest Lecturer, Rosemont College, Rosemont, PA.
2000 Guest Lecturer, University Science Center, Philadelphia, P.A.
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Evensong
Relic
45"x21"x7"
Lyre
75"x45"3
Mirage
54"x30"
Vespers
25"x15"x2.5"
Hearts and Bones
24"x23"x6"
Aurora
12"x11.5"
Breathe
42"x70"
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