Ginny Howsam Friedman

I live and work in Dutchess County/the Hudson Valley/Upstate New York.

Here I cannot escape--the landscape.

This natural environment has deep connections for me: rivers, ponds, mountains, trails, wetlands, farmland, forests.

I look for underlying geometry and order amid nature's chaos.

I paint an imagined reality from a perceived experience. With charcoal, graphite and oil sticks while layering oils, I interpret through memory, imagination and atmospheric encounters with nature.

Draw/erase. Paint/scrape. A ghost remains. With these traces I move the work toward the bilateral link between what I can see and what I can imagine. I translate both surface and subterranean geography to canvas and paper. The macrocosm and microcosm belong together. This combination casts the familiar in a new light.

Ginny Howsam Friedman received a BFA with Honors from Pratt Institute. She has studied at the 92nd Street Y/Eric Fischl Master
Class, the Woodstock School of Art, the Center for Contemporary Printmaking, the New York Studio School, the JVS Project Space and the Art Students League.

BFA Pratt Institute
MA SUNY Albany
BA SUNY Albany