Structure and Imagery

  Photo by Jeff Frederick   Photo by Jeff Frederick Photo by Robin Stout   Brooke Moyse, Partick Berran, Trudy Benson, Jeff frederick, Gary Petersen, Robert Otto Epstein and Paul Behnke.  Photo by Jake Cartwright Paul Behnke, Craig Taylor and Trudy Benson   Trudy Benson   Paul Behnke  Keltie Ferris, Robert Otto Epstein, Paul Behnke  Trudy Benson   Craig Taylor  Brooke Moyse   Curator Jeff Frederick and Paul Behnke Photo by Robin Stout   Brooke Moyse   Gary Petersen Partick Berran If Color Could Kill curated by Jeff Frederick Featuring work by: Paul Behnke, Trudy Benson, Patrick Berran, Robert Otto Epstein, Keltie Ferris, Brooke Moyse, Gary Petersen and Craig Taylor April 4 - April 29, 2016 Salena Gallery at Long Island University info **If Color Could Kill will...

Hello All, I'm very pleased to let you know about two group exhibitions, that will include my work, opening in New York in early April. Excited to be included with these great artists . . . and for more News on upcoming exhibitions follow the link here . Paul Behnke, Shiro , 2016, acrylic on canvas, 32 x 30 in. IF COLOR COULD KILL New Painting From New York City Curated by Jeff Frederick April 4-29, 2016 Please come to the opening reception: Tuesday April 5th, 6-8PM Paul Behnke Trudy Benson Patrick Berran Robert Otto Epstein Keltie Ferris Brooke Moyse Gary Petersen Craig Taylor Abstract painting is a color delivery device. But when does color become dangerous, even homicidal? If Color Could Kill imagines a world better than the one we live in: one where color is power. The works of these eight painters say Yes in a way that is louder than everyday life. Modern pigments free the painter from the boring colors of nature. This is color too strong to be safely observed...

Jeff Frederick was born in Concord, New Hampshire and currently lives and works in New York, City. He received a BA from Vassar and an MFA from Brooklyn College (CUNY) in 2010. Frederick's Handheld Paintings can currently be seen in the group exhibition  Back In Situ, Or Turns at Centotto in Brooklyn  and he recently had work on view in this year's NurtureArt benefit, at Life on Mars ' Summer Invitational, and at Storefront Ten Eyck 's Arts in Bushwick BOS Benefit exhibition. For more information and to view more paintings and a video of Frederick's working process follow the link to his site here .   Hand held paintings   Detail   Detail  Hand held paintings   Hand held paintings Jeff Frederick in his studio in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, 2014