Connie Freid

I'm a New York artist who has won many awards for my psychologically penetrating paintings. At heart, I am a storyteller. My paintings are usually based on images from the news, magazines, or photos that I take. Something about the image catches my eye - a gaze, a pose, a setting. Often, it is just watching someone interacting with another person or their surroundings, Although many of my subjects are strangers, my paintings become strong psychological studies of them, pushing the boundaries beyond traditional portraiture.

My work has a depth of feeling that elicits a strong emotional response from viewers, especially those interested in our changing social, political and cultural landscape and the current of anxiety that exists today.

The intimacy and humanism of ordinary people by Goya and Rembrandt inspire me. In my own work, I often paint isolated figures with a haunting gaze, suggesting the current of anxiety that exists in today's world.

My moody and mysterious portraits evince strength, vulnerability and emotion while questioning popular ideas about gender, race and beauty.There is often a sense of loss and renewal.

BS, University of Pennsylvania
MBA, Pace University
Art education:Philadelphia Museum School of Art; State University of New York, Purchase NY; Silvermine Guild of Art; International Center of Photography; Greenwich Art Society.

SOLO EXHIBITS:
2016: "Vixens or Victims?", Harrison Public Library
2010: "The Feminine Mystique Redux," Sarah Lawrence College
2008: "Inspirations," Rye Free Reading Room
2007: "Face to Face," Iona College
2003: "Dreams and Destinies," Harrison Public Library
2002: "Sounds of Silence," Riverdale Temple


Selected juried exhibitions;

2020:
Black History Month, Gallery 18, Riverdale Y.
"Not Cancelled", Ridgefield Guild of Art
2019:
"We are Family," Blue Door Art Center.
"Womantide," Yonkers Riverfront Art Gallery.
"Face Time, Classic Portraiture in a Digital Age," Connecticut Society of Portrait Artists.

2018:
*"Parallel Visions, Realism and Abstraction, Flinn Gallery, Greenwich Art Society
*"The Wild Side," Riverfront Art Gallery

2017:
*"Visual Narratives," a tri-state show, Loft Artists Association
* "Assyrians in Yonkers, A Tale of Hope and Survival," Blue Door Art Center
*"100th Annual Juried Exhibition," Greenwich Art Society
*"Art Takes Manhattan," NY Art Week, Caelum Gallery
* Yonkers Artist Showcase

2016
*"Shelter," National Association of Women Artists and Violence Transformed
* "Powers of Observation, Greenwich Flinn gallery
*Faber Birren National Color Award Show
**Art Society of Old ...