Fred Danziger Biography

Education: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1966-70)
Exhibitions: Over 100 group shows; 18 one-man shows
Current and Former Gallery Associations: Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery (New York City); Sherry French Gallery (New York City);James Gallery (Pittsburgh, PA); Rodger LaPelle Gallery, (Philadelphia, PA)
Major Awards: Cresson Scholarship (PAFA); Scheidt Scholarship (PAFA) Tiffany Grant (Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation);

Museum Collections: (see the work) Philadelphia Museum of Art (Phlia. PA); Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts- Museum of American Art (Phila. PA) Witchita Art Museum (Witchita, KA); Ashville Museum of Art (Ashville NC); Reading Community Art Museum (Reading, PA); The Noyes Museum (Oceanville, NJ); The Woodmere Art Museum (Phila. PA); The State Museum of Pennsylvania (Harrisburg, PA); The Philip and Muriel Berman Museum (Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA). Work can be seen in numerous corporate collections as well.

Publications: See especially:
American Artist Magazine March 1991 by Anna Francis;
Seven Arts Magazine Feb. 1994 by Jodie Kolodzey;
The Artist's Magazine August 1993 by Anna Francis. A complete list of newspaper reviews, and other books and magazines with work reproduced is available.
Other selected publications. Various dates and authors

(at right) Fred Danziger on a September 2004 painting trip to Maine.
(There is nothing better than this...)

Statement: From a recent brochure: "When I was three, I drew a picture of a clown, and my mother liked it so much, she gave me milk and cookies. I liked that! I figured I was on to something there, and when I went to kindergarten, I already knew I was going to be an artist."
.. Since September 11, 2001 my perspective on art has changed. I have tried to focus on one thing: NATURE
There is a basic truth in nature that makes our narcissistic striving ridiculous. As an artist:
I have nothing to "say."
I offer nothing "new."
I am not on any "edge."
I seek to be in the center of nature, as a mere observer.
As far as any "motive force,"- I am constantly astounded by my own, and society's inability to distiguish between illusion and reality, and our ability to ignore the difference when we see it.

painting at Cape Nedick, Maine in September 2004

My dog 'mickey' and I at Chartier's Terrace

(at left) My first dog, "Mickey" and I at Chartier's Terrace near Carnegie, PA where I spent my youth.

I have been extremely fortunate to have been able to spend the greatest part of my life, doing art. Color, light, ideas- they provide the joy. That is the bottom line summary. I have also been fortunate to be a teacher, mainly at the Art Institute of Philadelphia, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, (from 1997 to 2002) where I continue to see students who give me faith that, no matter how bad things look, they aren't really THAT bad.

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