Laurie Fendrich was born on 1948 and is an American artist, writer and educator based in New York City, best known for geometric abstract paintings that balance playfulness and sophistication.
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Laurie Fendrich's work has been featured in solo exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, a retrospective at the Williamson Gallery at Scripps College, and group shows at MoMA PS1, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the National Academy of Design, among many venues.
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Laurie Fendrich has received reviews in publications including The New York Times, Artforum, Art in America, Arts Magazine, ARTnews Partisan Review, and New York Magazine.
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Laurie Fendrich has been an educator for more than four decades, notably at Hofstra University, and a regular essayist for The Chronicle Review at The Chronicle of Higher Education.
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Laurie Fendrich was born in Paterson, New Jersey in 1948 and attended Mount Holyoke College, where she studied painting, but graduated with a political science degree, considering it a more practical major.
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Laurie Fendrich worked in publishing for three years, traveled across the country, and in 1975, enrolled at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she studied painting with professors Ray Yoshida and Richard Loving.
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Laurie Fendrich met her future husband, artist and critic Peter Plagens, in Chicago; they would marry in 1981 and, after living in California and Chapel Hill, North Carolina, move to New York City in 1985.
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Laurie Fendrich insists on hand-rendering all shapes, creating quivering, soft edges and texture, and allows areas of irregular color and underpainting to be revealed.
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Laurie Fendrich began creating black-and-white Conte crayon works in the 1990s, inspired by a show of Seurat drawings.
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Laurie Fendrich's writing began with the publication of an essay in The Chronicle of Higher Education entitled, "Why Painting Still Matters," which later became the basis for a short book.
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Laurie Fendrich contributed an essay on the philosophy of painting to an anthology in honor of the political philosopher Thomas L Pangle.
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Laurie Fendrich has written exhibition catalogue essays for artists including Judith Geichman, Don Gummer and Doug Hilson.
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Laurie Fendrich has taught painting, drawing and contemporary art theory for more than four decades, emphasizing foundational skills and often drawing on her philosophy background.
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Laurie Fendrich has been a visiting artist, lecturer and panelist at numerous institutions, including the Pratt Institute, Whitney Museum of American Art, University of California, Davis, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, San Francisco Art Institute, Colorado State University, and Irish Arts Council, among many others.