Upcoming Exhibits
Bill Frederick:
Here Comes Trouble
May 18 – June 29
Reception: Friday, May 18, 7-9 pm
About the Show
Chicago painter Bill Frederick uses simple materials of brush, ink, watercolor, and paper. His work expresses his preoccupations with friends and family, history, geography, and a nagging sense of dread.Opening Reception
Reception: Friday, May 18, 7-9 pmFree and open to the public
Exhibition Hours
May 18 – June 1:Mon-Fri 8:00 am-4:30 pm
Sat - Sun: CLOSED
June 4 – 29:
Mon-Thu 8:00 am-9:00 pm
Fri 8:00 am-4:30 pm
Sat - Sun: CLOSED
Artist’s Statement
Drawn from imagination, photography, and personal observation, my paintings reflect an interest in art as an expressive response to experience. I use the simple materials of brush, ink, watercolor, and paper. My work expresses my preoccupations with friends and family, history, geography, and a nagging sense of dread. For me, the image and its creation are of overriding concern. Formal issues, craft, and materials are essential as the means to this end, but it is the image itself that is significant and that sustains my interest.The pictures are my attempt to make sense of my experience—a bit like understanding one’s waking life by reimagining it in a dream.
Representational painting, like a photograph or a documentary film, does not depict objective reality, but rather is a response to the world and a fiction. My paintings offer the viewer a place within the fiction of the image. The works address this in various ways: some paintings directly reference photography; if the image purports to be a photograph, then we are made to be the photographer. Other works include the peculiarities of vision: changes of focus, the effects of glare, or the fleeting appearance of doubled images, a phenomenon of sight with two eyes. Still other paintings merely place the viewer in a particular location through arrangements of foreground or near objects.
All these devices point to ourselves and place us, as viewers, in the location depicted, albeit not within the picture’s frame. They contribute to making the image something of consequence, something that can be invested with a bit of the urgency of living experience.
Biography
Bill Frederick was born in 1957 in Chicago, where he still resides. He attended Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is represented by Zg Gallery, Chicago. His work is included in museum, corporate, and private collections.Pieces on Display
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Dog/Man/Truck
2010, brush and ink on paper, 19 1/4 x 34 1/2 inches
by Bill Frederick
2010, brush and ink on paper, 19 1/4 x 34 1/2 inches
by Bill Frederick
On View
April 13– May 12
The College of Lake County Student Art Competition
Reception: Friday, April 13, 7-9 pm
