Independent Arts News Reporting Open Studio Event with Painter Kirby Fredendall and husband, photographer and sculptor Alex Damevski
Reported Tuesday, October 1, 2024. Updated October 3, 2024.
Above: LR: Alex Damevski, R: Kirby Fredendall. Photo Credit: Contributed.
NEWSROOM POST: NEW HOPE, PA:
New Hope, PA – Alex Damevksi and Kirby Fredendall will be hosting their annual Fall Open Studio. During the weekend the couple will be in their studios from noon until 5pm to share their work and talk about their process. They will be hosting and evening event on the 18th from 6-9pm.
Fredendall grew up in Carversville, has lived in Bucks County from childhood, and has been working as an artist for over 30 years. Fredendall has shown her work all over the country and is collected widely by private collectors and has work in the Michener Museum permanent collection where she had a solo show. She is represented by Sarah Gormley Gallery in Columbus, Ohio, Candita Clayton Gallery in New Hampshire and Rhode Island and locally by LAA Art Collective in Wayne, Pennsylvania. She is excited to announce a collaborative solo show with her nephew Will Fredendall, a musician, at Artwrkd in March, 2025. Her work is also currently on view at the Phillips Mill 95th Annual exhibition.
In her work elements of the landscape are pulled apart and selectively reconfigured. The viewer is gently led away from a directly observed image to one where a balance is struck between the known and the felt. The surface is organized into separate areas where one can then experience the landscape as a vista across a body of water, as the transparency of light and objects seen beneath the water, and the combinations of light and color that play together among all of these views. The viewer can be drawn deep into the visual space or skate along the surface.
Pictured Above:This Place is a Dream 28″ x 24″ Oil on acid washed tin sfs by Kirby Fredendall. Photo Credit: Contributed.
Pictured Above:The Last Light of Day 24″ x 20″ Oil on acid washed tin sfs. Photo Credit: Contributed.
Damevski was born in 1960 in the former Yugoslavia. Damevski’s and his family emigrated to the United States in 1968. As a child, he recalls his Dad taking photos with his 35-mm camera as well as reels and reels of 8-mm movies. He gravitated towards his 35mm camera especially and loved to pretend to take pictures just like his dad. He still has his dad’s camera in addition to many more – a collection that includes everything from a c. 1940’s Graflex press camera to a miniature c.1947 Japanese camera.
Pictured Above: By photographer Alex Damevski. Photo Credit: Contributed.
Damevski’s interest in photography was sparked in high school when he enrolled in an intro to photo class. The whole experience from pressing the shutter to developing the film and finally the magic of a photo appearing on the paper fascinated him. Damevski has also created a diverse body of sculptural work that has been exhibited at the New Hope Arts Works on Wood show numerous times. His photographs have also been included in numerous group exhibitions.
Fredendall and Damevski’s studios are both located at 1448 Street Road, New Hope, PA. More information, visit the artist’s websites:
