Ginny Howsam Friedman

For the past three years I have lived and worked in Dutchess County/the Hudson Valley, Upstate New York.

Here I cannot escape--the landscape.

The natural environment of the Hudson Valley has triggers for me: rivers, ponds, mountains, trails, wetlands, farmland, and forests.

I look for underlying geometry and order amid nature's chaos.

Using drawing and mark making with charcoal, graphite, and wax pencil, while layering oils, I paint an imagined reality from a perceived experience.

Draw/erase. Paint/scrape. Again. And again. A ghost remains. I work toward a bilateral glimpse of interconnections between what we can see and what we imagine we can see--often including both superficial and subterranean geography.

This blend casts the familiar in a new light.

Ginny Howsam Friedman received a BFA with Honors from Pratt Institute. In addition, she has studied at the 92nd Street Y/Master Class with Eric Fischl, the Woodstock School of Art, the Center for Contemporary Printmaking, the New York Studio School, the JVS Project Space and the Art Students
League.

Howsam Friedman is represented in collections all over the country and has exhibited widely in solo and group shows.

Among the venues she has shown in are:
WAAM
NAWA
Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild
The Other Art Fair Brooklyn
Katonah Museum
Saatchi Art Online
Westchester Communty College
New York Artists Equity
M Studio
Pleiades Gallery
Garrison Arts Center
Hyde Collection
the Center for Contemporary Printmaking
Piermont Fine Arts Gallery
Nassau Community College
Woodstock School of Art
the Pen and Brush
Pratt Institute
Locust Grove
Piermont Fine Arts Gallery