21st Century Art
'Gallery Without Walls'
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21st Century Art is committed to imparting a forum of diversity for creativity and expression. We aspire to empower artists by affiliating each with an audience. Additionally we hope to cultivate the desire for thought provoking original art in the general public by making it easily accessible.
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Fred German, BFA
Artist’s Statement
In the pursuit of artistic mastery, and the realization of one’s own contribution to the celebration of life, these works are an assemblage framed in intellectual and emotional interpretations of experiences transfigured through physical gestation, manifesting in contrast and composition. Drawings are a personal exercise to master the tonal undulations of light cascading over recognizable volumes of space, capturing an individual moment in time by means of the most simplistic of mediums; pencil and paper.
Artist’s Biography
I have been driven to render as early as I can recall; my artistic fascination began when I first learned how to draw the alphabet. I took my first commission at the age of ten and through the years of my development I have shown my work in galleries and sold to private collectors.
I received my Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Virginia Commonwealth University with an emphasis on painting and print making. While at VCU I had the distinct honor to study under two men whom I considered to be living Masters: James Bradford and Milo Russell. To this day I am influenced by their teachings and can only hope to obtain their level of mastery in my lifetime. The late 1980’s of Richmond, Virginia brought about an underground artistic ideology that was shared by a collective minority of VCU alumnae. Dedicated to the promotion of art without the constraints of external limitations allowed for the truest expression of art and the inception of the VIM art group of which I was a founding member.
Artistic Style
My art is about my self-indulgent enjoyment and the subjects I choose are those I deem important. My style is very loose, gestural, and is often a marriage of abstract and representational elements. The non-objective aspects of my compositions are equally as important as the figures in the positive space, making each piece a totality of these two components. I often endeavor to reduce linear quality in each work of art, thus giving the tonal structure of each individual piece prevalence and cohesive composition.