Fredric Frank Myers

637 West  5th Avenue
Apache Junction, Arizona 85220
Studio: 480-982-0936
email-  info@fredricfrankmyers-artist.com
www.fredricfrankmyers-artist.com

 

Education

 

Post Graduate Studies, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY.  Studies in Graphic & Mechanical Design.


1974-1975

M.F.A Degree, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan Field of Study:  3 dimensional multi-mixed media.     


1970-1972

B.S Degree, Bemidji State College, Bemidji, MN Field of Study:  Art Education Major, History Minor.


1962-1967

Aviation metalsmith, welding & plastic schools, U.S. Navy, Memphis, TN and Norman, OK


1957-1958

 

Solo Exhibitions

 

Automation House, New York, NY

1978

Bemidji State University, Bemidji, MN

1974

University of Minnesota, Tweed Museum, Duluth, MN

1974

DeWaters Art Center, Institute of Arts, Flint, MI

1973

Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI

1972

Ohio University, Belmont Campus, Barnesville, OH

1972

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

1971

Saginaw Art Museum, Saginaw, MI

1971

Red River Art Center, Fargo, ND

1968

Bemidji State University, Bemidji, MN

1967

 

Group Exhibitions

 

Vision Gallery, Chandler, AZ

2001

J-Michael Galleries, Minneapolis, MN

1982

Sixth Estate Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

1980

Lord & Taylor’s Gallery, New York, NY

1977

Four-Men Exhibition, Gallery West, Buffalo, NY

1974

Two-Man Exhibition, Gallery West, Buffalo, NY

1974

Gallery West, Buffalo, NY

1973

Midland Art Center, 13th Annual Exhibition, Midland, MI

1973

A.C.S. Art Gallery Invitational, Kenmore, NY

 1973

Gallery West, “Young print Makers”, Buffalo, NY

1973

Detroit Artists Market Invitational, Detroit, MI

1972

Ann Arbor Art Associations Invitational, Ann Arbor, MI

1972

Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI

1972

Deson-Zaks Gallery, Chicago, IL

1972

Left Bank Gallery Invitational, Flint, MI

1972

Saginaw Art Museum All –Michigan Exhibition, Saginaw, MI

1972

Detroit Artists market, “Landscape Now”, Detroit, MI

1972

Grand Rapids Institute, 4th Biennial, Grand Rapids, MI

1972

Flint Inst. Of Arts, “All Michigan Exhibit”, Flint MI

1971

Texas Fine Arts Assoc., Austin TX

1971

National Graphics Competition, U. SD

1971

Genesee Community College All Faculty  Exhibit , Flint, MI

1970-1971

Flint Institute of Arts,  “Summertime 1970”, Flint, MI

1970

Avanti Gallery, 3rd Annual Exhibition, New York, NY

1969

Centennial Invitational, Bemidji College, Bemidji College, MN

1969

Ninth Annual Red River Exhibition, Fargo, ND

1967

Flint Institute of Arts, 39th, 40th, & 42nd  Annuals, Flint, MI

1969,1970,
1972

University of Michigan, 17th, 18th & 20th Invitationals, Ann Arbor, MI

1969,1970,
1972

 

Awards

 

 Nominated for 2013 Arizona Governor's Artist of the Year Award

2013

Texas Fine Arts Traveling Exhibition       1972-1973

University of MI, Rackham Graduate School Grant in Fine Arts.


1971

Flint Institute of Arts, 42nd Annual, Painting Award, Flint, MI.

Juror, Ivan Karp, O.K. Harris Gallery, New York, NY


1970

Michigan Education Association Annual, Landsing, MI. Purchase award for painting.


1970

University of MI 18th  Annual “Critics-Choice”.

1970

Teaching Fellowship in Design, University of MI

1970

Teaching Fellowship in Design, University of ND (offered)

1968

El Paso Sun Carnival Exhibit, El Paso, TX. Honorable Mention in painting.  Juror, Leonard Good, Chairman of Art Department of Drake University



1968

Outstanding Achievement Award, Bemidji State College, Bemidji, MN.


1967

Painting Selected to represent Bemidji State College at All-State Exhibition at University of Minnesota


1965

 

Collections

 

University of Minnesota, Tweed Museum, Duluth, MN

1974

Bemidji University, Bemidji, MN

1974

Genesee Community College, Flint, MI

1973

DeWaters Art Center, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI

1972

Ohio University, Belmont Campus, Barnesville, OH

1972

Michigan Education Association, Lansing, MN

1970

 

Gallery Affiliations

 

 

Peterson Fine Arts Gallery, Edina, MN

1978

Sixth Estate Gallery, Brooklyn, New York.

1977

Melvina Miller Gallery, 489 Sacramento, San Francisco, California


1974

A Clean Well-Lighted Place, 351 Bleecker St., New York, NY

1973

Aames Gallery, Greene and Mercer St., New York, NY

1973

Habatat Gallery, 1820 N. Telegraph Road, Dearborn, MI

1972

Detroit Artists Markey, 1452 Randolph St., Detroit MI

1972

Mazelow Gallery, 3463 Yonge Street, Toronto, Canada.

1971

Dos Patos Gallery, Corpus Christi, TX

1971

Detroit Institute of Arts, Sales & Rental Gallery, Detroit MI

1971

Pyramid Gallery, 109 N. Main St. Ann Arbor, MI

1970

Flint Institute of Arts, Sales & Rental Gallery, Flint, MI

1969

Xochipilli Gallery, Rochester, MN

1968

Avanti Gallery, New York, NY.

1967

 

ADDENDUM:

 

In 1979 I decided to stop exhibiting for an indefinite period and began dissolving my gallery
affiliations for the following reasons:  In 1971 a gallery handling my work closed without notification
and the owners disappeared, taking the majority of the art work with them.  That same year
another gallery I was affiliated with had a fire.  When their insurance company settled, the gallery
owners opted to keep a 40% commission.  In 1974 my work from a one-man exhibition in the
Midwest was returned, improperly crated and with insurance coverage waved.  When the
shipment arrived, 80% of three years of my work was either destroyed or missing.  At the trial to
recover my losses, the judge ordered that it could not be mention that the gallery director had
waved insurance coverage, as it would prejudges the jury.  I lost my case.
 

 

By 1977 I had regained sufficient work to resume an exhibition schedule and in January 1978 I was
offered a one-man exhibition that September.  Unfortunately my exhibit opened to the beginning
of the New York City newspaper strike and all area newspapers were unable to publish reviews
of my work.

 

Following the exhibits closing, I chose to visit Arizona in order to spend time with my mother, as
my father had passed away five months earlier, but also to take time to rethink my life’s direction. 
Upon returning to New York, four months later, I temporarily closed my studio, placed my
work and major equipment in storage and decided I would only continue exhibiting when my
 economic position was such, that I could control every aspect of my artistic career.