Jimi Hendrix by Greg Frederick
The Orphic Gallery in Roxbury, NY is pleased to announce the opening on Saturday, May 25th, 2013 of a new exhibit RECORD BREAKER featuring the work of Greg Frederick, an artist from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, who fashions portraits of rock & pop icons from shards of vinyl record albums and covers. His work embraces the pop spirit of Andy Warhol and the street ethos of Banksy and Shepard Fairey.
RECORD BREAKER will open with an artists’ reception on Saturday, May 25, 2013, from 4-8 pm. The Orphic Gallery is located at the Roxbury Corner Store at 53525 State Highway 30, Roxbury, NY, at the corner of Main and Bridge Streets. The exhibit will continue through June 2013 and be open to the public during the gallery’s normal business hours, Wednesday through Sunday, 12-5 pm.
Greg Frederick is from Phoenix, Arizona, where he developed aspirations to become an artist with influences as diverse as Courtney Love and Warhol. He studied photography in London for 5 years and continues to work as a music and fashion photographer whose clients have included Lil’ Kim and Hole. With his interest in street art, Frederick has also worked on murals, most notably Mother Kim at the Danny Screams Studio in Brooklyn. But it’s his exceptional collection of music inspired portraits executed in recycled vinyl that will be exhibited at RECORD BREAKER at the Orphic Gallery.
While experimenting with printing his photographs on canvas he started adding pieces of found objects including fragments of vinyl records to the images. He began outlining the visages and rendering the features of his subjects in shards of vinyl. Eventually he began removing the printed images from the canvasses leaving the portraits fashioned solely from the vinyl pieces. These exceptional likenesses remarkably arise from the fragments of the vinyl painstakingly cut and arranged to form the iconic images.
With Vinyl Pop Art, Greg Frederick has developed an extraordinary portfolio of luminaries from the musical world ranging from Amy Winehouse and Notorious Big to John Lennon and Jim Morrison. He also works on commission and recently executed an amazing portrait of local bluesman Zonder Kennedy. Frederick exhibited at the Strivers Garden Gallery in the “eMerge: Danny Simmons & Artists on the Cusp” exhibit last summer and he had his first solo show at Get Up Gallery in Las Vegas in August 2012.
Greg Frederick’s unique portraiture has created a considerable buzz in the alternative art world. He was celebrated as a featured artist on the influential design site fab.com (http://fab.com/inspiration/madonna-2) and also interviewed in culturepop.com (http://www.culturepop.com/art-design/for-the-record-vinyl-pop-art ). His work has also been championed by renowned media maven Souleo and dzithevoice.com http://dzithevoice.com/2012/07/30/greg-frederick-breaks-records-for-the-sake-of-art/
The Orphic Gallery opened the summer of 2012 in the artistic enclave of Roxbury, NY. The gallery exclusively exhibits art related to music including photographs, concert posters, musical instruments, portraits of musicians, souvenirs of musical events, specimens of musical technology, etc. All work exhibited at the gallery has a definite connection to the world of music, and it features exhibits based on both local music history, and musical traditions from around the USA and abroad.
For further information on RECORD BREAKER or the Orphic Gallery, please contact Phillip Lenihan at 607-326-6045 or phil@orphicgallery.com.
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