Greg Frederick at Orphic Gallery, May 2013
Orphic Gallery artist Greg Frederick will hold a two day residency at the gallery in Roxbury on Saturday and Sunday, July 26th and 27th. Greg is 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. Greg will hold court at the gallery throughout the afternoon and demonstrate his exceptional artistic technique by fashioning a piece of vinyl pop art during the course of his stay.
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 Gallery in Brooklyn. But it’s his exceptional collection of music inspired portraits executed in recycled vinyl that will be featured at his residency 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 Frank Sinatra to Lady Gaga, John Sebastian to Kate Pierson. He also works on commission and recently executed an amazing portrait of local bluesman Zonder Kennedy.
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. For further information on the Greg Frederick residency or the Orphic Gallery, please contact Phillip Lenihan at 607-326-6045 or phil@orphicgallery.com.
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