Pia Fries
Pia Fries (born October 6, 1955) is a Swiss painter.[1] Fries was born in Beromunster, Switzerland and studied sculpture in Lucerne in 1980, and painting under Gerhard Richter at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 1986.
Fries works are aintings but the aint is so sculpted that is almost sculpture. She is very interested in the work of Maria Sibylla Merian who with her daughter studied the insects and flora of Suriname. Fries uses images from Merian's book Flowers, Butterflies and Insects.[1] Merian is known particularly for documenting the metamorphosis of butterflies.[2]
Selected Collections
- Aagauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, CH
- Binding Stiftung, Basel, CH
- Kunstmuseum Luzern, CH
- Kunstmuseum Winterthur, CH
- Neues Museum, Nuremberg, DE
- Niedersuchsische Kulturestiftung, Hannover, DE
- Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, DE
Selected exhibitions
2007
2006
- Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London (solo)
2005
- Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA (solo)
- Galerie Nelson, Paris, France (solo)
- Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid (solo)
- Newport Beach, CA, USA
2004
- 25th Anniversary, The L.A. Years, Part II, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA
- Landscape Confection, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH; Contemporary Arts Museum, Huston, TX; The Orange County Museum of Art
- Mur Gang, CRG Gallery, New York, NY, USA (solo)
- Ormithology, Districto Cuarto, Madrid, Spain (solo)
2003
- Galerie Mai 36, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
- Works on Paper, CRG Gallery, New York, NY, USA
- Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY, USA
- Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain
- Schloss Morsbroich, Leverkusen
- Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland
- Hypertexture, Florence Lynch Gallery New York, NY USA (curated by Lee Klein)
2002
- CRG Gallery, New York, NY, USA (solo)
- Galerie Philip Nelson, Paris, France (solo)
- Schiwege, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monic, CA, USA (solo)
- Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
2001
- Museum Moderner Kunst, Ottendorf, Germany (solo)
- The Box Associati, Torino, Italy (solo)
- Beau Monde, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM, USA . L.A. Int’l, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA
- Surface and Paint, CRG Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2000
- Neu Manege Moskau, Moscow, Russia
- Kunstmuseum, Winterthur
- Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Lubeck, Germany (solo)
- Galerie Rolf Ricke, Koln, Germany (solo)
1999
- Galerie Nelson, Paris, France (solo)
- Galerie Mai 36, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
- Kunsthalle Goppingen, Goppingen, Germany (solo)
- LUDWIG FORUM fur international Kunst, Aachen, Germany (solo)
- La Biennale di Venezia, Venedig, Italy
- Kunstverein Kassel, Kassel, Germany
- The Box Associati, Turin, Italy
1998
- Pia Fries and Brigit Jensen, Kunsverein Arnsberg, Arnsberg, Germany, Pia Fries, Olav Christopher Jenssen, Perry Roberts, Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Kunstverin Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany (solo)
- Kunstverein Ulm, Ulm, Germany (solo)
- Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf, Germany (solo)
1997
- Kunstverein Friburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany (solo)
- Aagauer Kunsthaus Aarau, Aarau, Switzerland (solo)
- Kunstverein, Amsberg, Germany (solo)
- Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Germany (solo)
- Abstract, Sfeir-Semmier Galerie, Kiel, Germany
- Galerie Monika Reiz, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
1996
- Galerie Mai 36, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
- Nahe& Feme, 19 Positionen (Near and Far, 19 Positions), Goethe Institute, Stadtgalerie Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria
1995
- Gemeindegalerie Benzeholz, Meggen, Switzerland (solo)
1992
- Kunstmusuem Luceme, Lucerne, Switzerland (solo)
Resources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 SCHWENDENER, MARTHA (February 23, 2007). "Art in Review; Pia Fries". The New York Times. Retrieved 6 June 2011.
- ↑ Kristensen, Niels P. (1999). "Historical Introduction". In Kristensen, Niels P. Lepidoptera, moths and butterflies: Evolution, Systematics and Biogeography. Volume 4, Part 35 of Handbuch der Zoologie:Eine Naturgeschichte der Stämme des Tierreiches. Arthropoda: Insecta. Walter de Gruyter. p. 1. ISBN 978-3-11-015704-8. Retrieved 5 March 2013.
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