Nancy Friese: Living Landscapes the at Florence Griswold Museum
June 28 @ 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
$5 – $15
June 28–September 14
Painter, printmaker, and educator Nancy Friese (b. 1948) immerses viewers in landscapes that percolate with texture and color. Working outdoors, often on large canvases or sheets of watercolor paper, she relies on keen observation and the ability to register the vitality and evanescence of nature through abundant detail and exhilarating hues. Friese’s vivid paintings and prints burst with life, expressing not only how invigorating it is for her as a contemporary artist to make art inspired by nature, but also the vivaciousness of her muse, nature. Friese touches every area of her canvas each time she paints, sustaining as a living thing the landscape that emerges from her brush, even across numerous sittings.
Image: Nancy Friese, Lieutenant River Shore, 2010. Watercolor on paper mounted on linen, 40 x 60 in. Florence Griswold Museum, Purchased with an anonymous gift
