Laurie Fendrich

Laurie Fendrich
Born1948
Paterson, New Jersey, US
EducationSchool of the Art Institute of Chicago, Mount Holyoke College
Known forPainting, drawing
StyleGeometric abstraction
SpousePeter Plagens
WebsiteLaurie Fendrich
Laurie Fendrich, I Met a Boy Called Frank Mills, oil on canvas, 36" x 32", 2009.

Laurie Fendrich (born 1948) is an American artist, writer and educator based in New York City, best known for geometric abstract paintings that balance playfulness and sophistication.[1][2][3] Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, a retrospective at the Williamson Gallery at Scripps College (2010), and group shows at MoMA PS1, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the National Academy of Design, among many venues.[4] She has received reviews in publications including The New York Times,[5] Artforum,[6] Art in America,[7][8] Arts Magazine,[9] ARTnews[10] Partisan Review,[11] and New York Magazine.[12] Fendrich has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation (2016), Brown Foundation at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (2009, 2017), and National Endowment for the Arts (1983–4).[13][14][4] She has been an educator for more than four decades, notably at Hofstra University (1989–2014), and a regular essayist for The Chronicle Review at The Chronicle of Higher Education.[14]

Fendrich's art has been described as a "deft blending of mid-twentieth century Cubism and biomorphism"[3] that avoids easy harmony, playing a pictorial game of "part playground, part calculated wager against chaos."[15] Critic Hilton Kramer characterized her work as "devoid of solemnity, dogmatism and existential angst," with an undercurrent of humor that embraces the worldly as it renegotiates the relationship between abstraction and representation in modernist painting.[16][17]

  1. ^ Heartney, Eleanor. "Laurie Fendrich," Art in America, June 2003, Retrieved October 12, 2018.
  2. ^ Landi, Anne. "Laurie Fendrich," ARTNews, February 2007, p. 134.
  3. ^ a b MacNaughton, Mary. Preface, Sense and Sensation: Laurie Fendrich, Paintings and Drawings 1990–2010, Claremont, CA: Scripps College, 2011.
  4. ^ a b Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery. Sense and Sensation: Laurie Fendrich, Paintings and Drawings 1990–2010, Claremont, CA: Scripps College, 2011, p. 92–5.
  5. ^ Glueck, Grace. "Laurie. Fendrich," The New York Times, January 27, 2003 Retrieved October 12, 2018.
  6. ^ Yood, James. "Laurie Fendrich," Artforum, May 1993. Retrieved October 12, 2018. Retrieved October 12, 2018.
  7. ^ Thompson, Walter. "Laurie Fendrich," Art in America, June 1990. Retrieved October 12, 2018.
  8. ^ Kalina, Richard. "Laurie Fendrich," Art in America, January 1996. Retrieved October 12, 2018.
  9. ^ Cyphers, Peggy. "Laurie Fendrich," Arts Magazine, April 1990.
  10. ^ Drohojowska-Philp, Hunter. "Laurie Fendrich," ARTNews, May 2011.
  11. ^ Wilkin, Karen. "Laurie Fendrich," Partisan Review, Fall, 1996.
  12. ^ Newhall, Edith. "Talent: Living Color," New York Magazine, December 26, 2002.
  13. ^ John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. "2016 Guggenheim Fellows, United States and Canada". Retrieved October 12, 2018.
  14. ^ a b Sonoma State University. Black White Color Life: Recent Works on Paper by Laurie Fendrich and Peter Plagens, Rohnert Park, CA: Sonoma State University, 2017.
  15. ^ Mullarkey, Maureen. "Winter Trio," Studio Matters, February 12, 2007. Retrieved October 12, 2018.
  16. ^ Kramer, Hilton. "Laurie Fendrich May Be Harbinger of New Movement," The New York Observer, January 6, 2003.
  17. ^ Cite error: The named reference Muchnic16 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).