Independent Arts News Reporting New Hope Open Studio Event May 20th - 21st
Above: L: Kirby Fredendall R: Alex Damevski. Photo Credit: Contributed.
New Hope artist couple, Fredendall & Damevski, open their studios, welcoming the public from noon until 5pm to experience their work and learn each artists' process. May 20th & 21st.
Newsroom Post: NEW HOPE, PA:
New Hope, PA – On Saturday and Sunday, May 20 & 21, Alex Damevksi and Kirby Fredendall will be hosting their annual Spring 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 20th 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. She is showing her work currently in a three person landscape exhibit at Sarah Gormley Gallery in Columbus Ohio and is represented by Candita Clayton Gallery in New Hampshire and Rhode Island and locally by LAA Art Collective in New Hope Pennsylvania. 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.
Above: Spring Shoreline, Oil on canvas, 40″ x 30″. Photo Credit: Contributed.
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.
Above: Summer Light on the Lake, pastel on paper, 11″ x 9″. 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 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.
Above: Waterlilies, digital print, “8 1/2 x 10”. 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.
More info can be found at kirbyfredendall.com or alexdamevski.com
