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Fredric Frank Myers |
637 West 5th Avenue
Apache Junction, Arizona 85220
Studio: 480-982-0936
email-
info@fredricfrankmyers-artist.com
www.fredricfrankmyers-artist.com
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Education
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Post Graduate Studies,
Parsons School of
Design, New York, NY. Studies in
Graphic & Mechanical
Design. |
1974-1975 |
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M.F.A Degree, University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
Michigan Field of
Study: 3 dimensional
multi-mixed media.
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1970-1972 |
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B.S Degree, Bemidji
State College, Bemidji,
MN Field of
Study: Art Education
Major, History Minor. |
1962-1967 |
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Aviation metalsmith,
welding & plastic
schools, U.S. Navy,
Memphis, TN and Norman,
OK |
1957-1958 |
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Solo Exhibitions |
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Automation House, New
York, NY |
1978 |
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Bemidji State
University, Bemidji,
MN |
1974 |
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University of Minnesota,
Tweed Museum, Duluth,
MN |
1974 |
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DeWaters Art Center,
Institute of Arts,
Flint, MI |
1973 |
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Central Michigan
University, Mt.
Pleasant, MI |
1972 |
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Ohio University, Belmont
Campus, Barnesville,
OH |
1972 |
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University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor, MI |
1971 |
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Saginaw Art Museum,
Saginaw, MI |
1971 |
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Red River Art Center,
Fargo, ND |
1968 |
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Bemidji State
University, Bemidji,
MN |
1967 |
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Group Exhibitions |
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Vision Gallery,
Chandler, AZ |
2001 |
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J-Michael Galleries,
Minneapolis, MN |
1982 |
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Sixth Estate Gallery,
Brooklyn, NY |
1980 |
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Lord & Taylor’s Gallery,
New York, NY |
1977 |
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Four-Men Exhibition,
Gallery West, Buffalo,
NY |
1974 |
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Two-Man Exhibition,
Gallery West, Buffalo,
NY |
1974 |
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Gallery West, Buffalo,
NY |
1973 |
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Midland Art Center, 13th
Annual Exhibition,
Midland, MI |
1973 |
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A.C.S. Art Gallery
Invitational, Kenmore,
NY |
1973 |
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Gallery West, “Young
print Makers”, Buffalo,
NY |
1973 |
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Detroit Artists Market
Invitational, Detroit,
MI |
1972 |
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Ann Arbor Art
Associations
Invitational, Ann Arbor,
MI |
1972 |
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Detroit Institute of
Arts, Detroit, MI |
1972 |
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Deson-Zaks Gallery,
Chicago, IL |
1972 |
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Left Bank Gallery
Invitational, Flint,
MI |
1972 |
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Saginaw Art Museum All
–Michigan Exhibition,
Saginaw, MI |
1972 |
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Detroit Artists market,
“Landscape Now”,
Detroit, MI |
1972 |
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Grand Rapids Institute,
4th Biennial,
Grand Rapids, MI |
1972 |
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Flint Inst. Of Arts,
“All Michigan Exhibit”,
Flint MI |
1971 |
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Texas Fine Arts Assoc.,
Austin TX |
1971 |
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National Graphics
Competition, U. SD |
1971 |
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Genesee Community
College All Faculty
Exhibit , Flint,
MI |
1970-1971 |
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Flint Institute of
Arts, “Summertime
1970”, Flint, MI |
1970 |
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Avanti Gallery, 3rd
Annual Exhibition, New
York, NY |
1969 |
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Centennial Invitational,
Bemidji College, Bemidji
College, MN |
1969 |
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Ninth Annual Red River
Exhibition, Fargo, ND |
1967 |
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Flint Institute of Arts,
39th, 40th,
& 42nd
Annuals, Flint, MI |
1969,1970,
1972 |
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University of Michigan,
17th, 18th
& 20th
Invitationals, Ann
Arbor, MI |
1969,1970,
1972 |
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Awards |
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Nominated for 2013
Arizona Governor's
Artist of the Year Award |
2013 |
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Texas Fine Arts
Traveling
Exhibition |
1972-1973 |
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University of MI, Rackham Graduate School
Grant in Fine Arts. |
1971 |
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Flint Institute of Arts,
42nd Annual,
Painting Award, Flint,
MI.
Juror, Ivan Karp, O.K.
Harris Gallery, New
York, NY |
1970 |
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Michigan Education
Association Annual,
Landsing, MI.
Purchase award for
painting. |
1970 |
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University of MI
18th Annual
“Critics-Choice”. |
1970 |
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Teaching Fellowship in
Design, University of
MI |
1970 |
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Teaching Fellowship in
Design, University of
ND (offered) |
1968 |
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El Paso Sun Carnival
Exhibit, El Paso, TX.
Honorable Mention in
painting. Juror,
Leonard Good, Chairman
of Art Department of
Drake University |
1968 |
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Outstanding Achievement
Award, Bemidji State
College, Bemidji,
MN. |
1967 |
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Painting Selected to
represent Bemidji State
College at All-State
Exhibition at University
of Minnesota |
1965 |
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Collections |
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University of Minnesota,
Tweed Museum, Duluth,
MN |
1974 |
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Bemidji University,
Bemidji, MN |
1974 |
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Genesee Community
College, Flint, MI |
1973 |
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DeWaters Art Center,
Flint Institute of Arts,
Flint, MI |
1972 |
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Ohio University, Belmont
Campus, Barnesville,
OH |
1972 |
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Michigan Education
Association, Lansing,
MN |
1970 |
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Gallery Affiliations
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Peterson Fine Arts
Gallery, Edina, MN |
1978 |
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Sixth Estate Gallery,
Brooklyn, New York. |
1977 |
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Melvina Miller Gallery,
489 Sacramento, San
Francisco, California |
1974 |
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A Clean Well-Lighted
Place, 351 Bleecker St.,
New York, NY |
1973 |
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Aames Gallery, Greene
and Mercer St., New
York, NY |
1973 |
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Habatat Gallery, 1820 N.
Telegraph Road,
Dearborn, MI |
1972 |
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Detroit Artists Markey,
1452 Randolph St.,
Detroit MI |
1972 |
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Mazelow Gallery, 3463
Yonge Street, Toronto,
Canada. |
1971 |
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Dos Patos Gallery,
Corpus Christi, TX |
1971 |
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Detroit Institute of
Arts, Sales & Rental
Gallery, Detroit
MI |
1971 |
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Pyramid Gallery, 109 N.
Main St. Ann Arbor,
MI |
1970 |
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Flint Institute of Arts,
Sales & Rental Gallery,
Flint, MI |
1969 |
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Xochipilli Gallery,
Rochester, MN |
1968 |
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Avanti Gallery, New
York, NY. |
1967 |
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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.
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