Edward Avedisian, Untitled, 1964, Liquitex, 48″ x 48″

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Friedel Dzubas

(1915–1994)

Renowned for his fluid and expressive abstracts, Dzubas painted throughout his life. He was born in Berlin, Germany and in l939, immigrated to the United States, settling in New York. His artistic career flourished in the creative atmosphere of New York City where he began exhibiting at various galleries. The positive reactions eventually led to successful shows in Los Angeles and London throughout the 1960s. As his reputation grew, galleries from around the world began to take notice. In the 1970s and 1980s, exhibitions of Dzubas paintings were held at influential galleries throughout the United States, Canada, Switzerland, and Germany.

 

Selected Collections

 

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Guggenheim Museum, New York

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California

Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, Florida

Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Georgia

Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts

Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey

Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey – Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, New York

Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York

Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Massachusetts

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Edward Avedisian, Untitled, 1964, Liquitex, 48″ x 48″

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Edward Avesisian

(b. 1936)

Edward Avedisian in his painting makes use of strategically placed concentric circles placed in a larger field of opaque color. Their pictographic quality, combined with the ochre field it is placed upon, call to mind symbolic markings on the African masks of Burkina Faso.