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: 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...) painting at Cape Nedick, Maine in September 2004

painting at Cape Nedick, Maine in September 2004

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.

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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