Picasso
Study, 36" x 24",
acrylic on canvas, 1981.| This is the first of the six smaller galleries here at FryeWorks. Exhibited in this gallery are some of the first attempts I made at creating visual art. Also in this first gallery are exhibited a portion of my first theme-based body of work. During this three year span I was exposed to a great rush of creative people and ideas. From their influences I sensed that I had discovered my life's career. |
Picasso
Study, 36" x 24",
acrylic on canvas, 1981.
Matisse
Study, 36" x 24",
acrylic on canvas, 1981.
Painted
Wood Sculpture, 36"
x 36", acrylic on plywood, 1981.
Mixing Mediums, 36" x 48", oil on canvas, 1982.
Dancer, 30" x 24", oil on canvas, 1982.
Interior Study Diptych, 11" x 17" (2), oil on canvas, 1983.| During the first few years of my artistic studies I shared a house with three other artists. One of those artists was an actor named Bret Ancel. Bret was one of the most talented and funniest people I had ever met (even to this day). The idea for The Bearman series was born out of an incident when Bret came out of his bedroom one morning wearing a bear hat and proceeded to dance around the house and put everyone in stitches. I was inspired to draw a straight-forward portrait of Bret wearing the bear hat. While working on the drawing I had the idea that the bear hat costume had a super hero/anti-hero effect. The costume and its transfiguring effect were symbols for both, a person's idealization of their persona, in concert with the alienating effect the costume has between the person and their basic human nature and the world at large. |
Portrait of Bret Ancel, 24" x 18", conte on paper, 1983.
Portrait of The Bearman, 26" x 18", graphite on paper, 1982.
Bearman Woods, 22" x 28", conte on paper, 1982.
Bearman Adrift, 22" x 28", conte on paper, 1982.
Bearman
Ybor City, 22" x 30",
oil on canvas, 1982.
Bearman Paisley Jackie, 24" x 32", oil on canvas, 1983.