David Benjamin Frye

35-37 78^th Street, Apt 1

Jackson Heights, NY 11372

(718) 429-0345

fryecosis@yahoo.com

Selected Solo and Group Exhibitions

2004 Momenta Arts 8^th Annual Benefit Exhibit and Auction.

White Columns, New York, NY 4/28 –5/1. Curator: Laura Parnes.

1998 Employee Art Show. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

1996 Sixteenth Annual Metro Show. City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ.

Transformations. Trans Hudson Gallery, Jersey City, NJ

1995 What’s the Connection? Trans Hudson Gallery, Jersey City, NJ

1994 Garden Fresh. Trans Hudson Gallery, Jersey City, NJ

Sex Abuse Control/Desire. The Community Gallery, Jersey City, NJ

1993 From Baltimore to Washington. University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD.

Curator: Angela Adams.

1992 Alumni Exhibition. Heron School of Art, Indianapolis, IN

David Benjamin Frye. (solo show) Anton Gallery, Washington, DC

1991 Alter Ego, Irony and Veneration in Shrines and Icons. The Hand Workshop, Richmond, VA

Curator: Paula Owen

The Lighter Palette. Anton Gallery, Washington, DC. Curator: Brian Hart

David Benjamin Frye. (solo show) Anton Gallery, Washington, DC

Summer Show. The Annex, Washington, DC

Greg Baumgart, David Frye, & Jacqueline Jolles – New Paintings. University of Maryland, College Park, MD

WPA Auction. Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC

1990 Other Drummers/Other Visions.

Fondo Del Sol Visual Arts Center, Washington, DC (NEA & DC Arts Council)

1989 Resurrections – Paintings and Mural/Installation (solo show)

The Athenaeum, Alexandria, VA - Curator: David Tannous

New Washingtonians – Christopher French, David Frye, and Tony Sheeder

Anton Gallery, Washington, DC

1987 Graduate Thesis Show. (solo show) Anderson Gallery. Richmond, VA

1987 Graduate Drawing Show. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

1986 Virginia Commonwealth University Graduate Drawings. Anderson Gallery. Richmond, VA

Gellman Room Exhibition (2 shows: Spring and Fall) Richmond Public Library, Richmond, VA

1985 Herron Goes Public. The Goodman Quad, Indianapolis, NY

1984 Landscape ’84. Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH

Commissions

1987 June Jubilee – Thirty paintings for the Coliseum doors, Richmond Arts Council.

Bibliography

Baumgart, Greg. “An Interview with David Frye.” Pro Arts Newsletter. October, 1996

Watkins, Ellen. “Garden Fresh” The Hudson Star-Ledger. September 2, 1994

Seifert, Leslie. New Jersey Entertainment. (Gallery Review) September 1994

Purvis, Mike. “3-D Paintings & Sculpture” Washington Review, April/May 1992

Rissatti, Howard Anthony. “Anton Gallery, Washington DC – Exhibit” Art Forum International. Vol. 30 p. 138

Welzenbach, Michael. “Cram-Packed Hodgepodges of City Life” The Washington Post. January 5, 1991

Thorson, Alice. “The Others” The City Paper. August 3, 1990

Welzenbach, Michael. “Athenaeum’s Confusing Coupling” The Washington Post. July 22, 1989

Weakly, Sonya. “An Artist’s Best Work” Richmond Times-Dispatch. November 8, 1987

Awards and Grants

1989-90 Studio Artist. Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA

1988 Virginia Prize for Painting. The Virginia Arts Commission, Richmond, VA

Artist in Education Study Grant. The Virginia Arts Commission, Richmond, VA

1987 Artist in Residence Program. The Virginia Arts Commission, Richmond, VA

Lecturing and Conferences

Visiting Artist, Sculpture, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA October 1995

Visiting Artist, Painting, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA May 1995

Art and the Marketplace – New Strategies. Panel Discussion. Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, VA

Education

M.F.A Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA – 1987 (Awarded Full Tuition and Stipend)

B.F.A. John Herron School of Art, Indianapolis, IN – 1985