About Gwendolyn Fryer

 "I work predominantly in wood, copper and plaster. Wood is used as a metaphor for the flesh and the altar like constructions are transformed into the figurative by simple enclosure. The geometric shapes symbolize the physical body in which something non-physical is centrally enclosed, floating and gestating."

 My sculpture is strongly influenced by my childhood in Libya. I learned to read and write in Arabic - and have integrated into my work a language that is hauntingly similar to the electrocardiogram- the electrical writing of the heart. Arabic culture also influenced the materials I use and instill a strong sense of rhythm- creating flux, and setting in motion all metaphors of life.

In searching for answers on what it means to be human, I have questions. My work is meditation upon these.

Gwendolyn L. Fryer

Bio

Gwendolyn L Fryer’s artwork has been featured in Solo and group exhibitions in museums and cultural centers throughout the United States and abroad including; the Lancaster Art Museum in Pennsylvania, the Sasquahanna Art Museum in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the Museum of Fine Arts in Tallahassee Florida, COPIA, the American Center for Wine Food and Arts in Napa California, the Selby Gallery of Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida, The Institute of Contemporary Art and the Nexus foundation for today's art in Philadelphia, the American Embassy in Algiers, the American Legation Museum in Tangiers Morocco and the Archevecher in Paris. Fryer graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and was the Academy's first exchange student to attend the Ecole National Superieure Des Beaux Arts in Paris

Awards

Fullbright 2007 Oman.

Fellowship of Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, PurchasePrize.

Second prize WCA at Longboat Key.

Second prize Sarasota Art Center.

Rauschenburg Prize.