Fred Wessel
Fred Wessel was born in New York in 1946. He lives in Northampton, Massachusetts and is a professor at the Hartford Art School where he teaches drawing, egg tempera painting and lithography. He currently co-directs Workshops in Italy, bringing small groups of artists and art-lovers to Tuscany and Umbria to paint and study the Italian Renaissance.
Education
1976M.F.A., University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA1968-71Pratt Graphics Center, New York, NY1968B.F.A. Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Experience
1976-2011Teaching, The Hartford Art School at the University of Hartford, Rank: Professor Emeritus, Printmaking
One Person Shows
2016Eternal Beauty: Egg Tempera Paintings by Fred Wessel, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI2016Constellations: The Night Sky, The Arden Gallery, Boston, MA2012Constellations and Other Recent Work, The Arden Gallery, Boston, MA2010New Works in Egg Tempera, The Arden Gallery, Boston, MA2007Silver and Gold, The Arden Gallery, Boston, MA2006An Exercise in Grace…the Art of Fred Wessel, The Evansville Museum of Art & Science, IN2004New Figurative Works in Tempera, The Arden Gallery, Boston, MA2002The Renaissance Revisited, The Arden Gallery, Boston, MA2000New Figural Work, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY1999The Arden Gallery, Boston, MA1997Renaissance Rediscovered, The Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY
Predellas: New Paintings, The Arden Gallery, Boston, MA
1995The Arden Gallery, Boston, MA1994The Springfield Museum of Art1993The Arden Gallery, Boston, MA1989The Connecticut Gallery, Marlborough, CT
The Union League Club (through Printworks Gallery), Chicago, IL
1988Printworks Gallery (Paintings, Drawings & Prints), Chicago, IL
Stonepress Gallery, Seattle, WA
1986Stonepress Gallery, Seattle, WA1985Stonepress Gallery, Seattle, WA
Invitational Exhibitions
2014“Il Cosmo” Viaggio tra Scienza e Arte, Villa Scaccabarozzi, Italy
The Figure, S.R. Brennen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM
2013LA Art, exhibited with S. R. Brennen Gallery
Brandywine Workshops-A Unique Vision, Snyderman-Works Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Untarnished, Loomis Chaffee School, Windsor, CT
2012Gold!, The Belvedere Museum, Vienna2011ArtLA, Exhibited with Skotia Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Egg Tempera-A Special Exhibition of Contemporary Master Egg Tempera Painters, Saks Galleries, Denver, CO
2010Egg Tempera: Contemporary Masters, The Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, VT
Realism Invitational, Skotia Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2009Layered Luminescence: The Art of Egg Tempera, 4 Person Show, ACA Galleries, New York, NY
The Luster of Silver, Silverpoint Drawings, The Evansville Museum of Arts and Science, Evansville, IN
2008Tempera: Ten, Westfield State College, MA2006The Art of Tempera, 3 Person Show, R. Michelson Galleries, Northampton, MA2005Seventh Annual Realism Invitational, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Precious Metals, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2004Exquisite Snake, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL
February Flowers, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY
Precious Metals, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2003Magic Realism: The New Generation, Sangre de Cristo Art Center, Pueblo, CO2002-03Tempera/New Temperaments, 6 artists, 5 pieces included, Evansville Museum, Evansville, IN (Sept 22-Nov 3, '02), Catalogue.
Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM (Dec-Jan '03); Frye Museum, Seattle, WA (Mar 7-Jun 1, '03)
Contemporary American Images All’Italiana, Seton Hall College
Still Lifes-Florals-Interiors, John Pence Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Egg Tempera, An Enduring Tradition II, Miami-Dade Community College (May-Jun '02); Mary Washington Museum Gallery, Fredericksburg, VA (Sept-Oct '02); The Wisteriahurst Museum, Holyoke, MA
Inventing Reality, Elements Gallery, Rockland, ME
The Figure, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY
2001Egg Tempera: An Enduring Tradition I, Anna Maria College, Paxton, MA
From the DeCordova Collection, Brodeur Worldwide-Through the DeCordova Museum.
Focus on the Collection: Recent Acquisitions, The Art Gallery, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
1999-2000Religion 2000, Mary Washington College, VA, (Nov '99-Mar '00) through Sherry French Gallery,
March 2000 at Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY (12 Pieces)
February Flowers, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY
New Realism for a New Millenium, Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester
1999Small Sizes-Precious Pieces, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY
February Flowers, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY
1998 February Flowers, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY
Small Sizes-Precious Pieces, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY
1997 Dramatic Realism, The New Baroque, Southern Alleghenies Museum, PA (catalogue)
Re-presenting Representation, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY ('97-'98; catalogue)
Realism, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Ohio
February Flowers, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY
Small Sizes-Precious Pieces, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY
Gallery and Invited Artists’, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY
Brandywine Workshop, 25 Years of American Printmaking, Printed Image Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1996 2 Person Show, Dec ‘95 The Arden Gallery, Boston, MA
Public Collections
The Museum of Modern Art, NY; The Brooklyn Museum, NY; The Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA; The Library of Congress; Evansville Museum of Art and Science IN; The Mackintosh Museum, Scotland; The DeCordova and Dana Museum of Art, MA; The Wichita Museum of Art, KS; Smith College Museum, MA; The University of Tianjin Fine Arts College, People's Republic of China; The University of Glasgow, Scotland; Galleries Tolbuchin and Lovetch, Bulgaria; The Honolulu Academy of the Arts, HI; The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL; Harvard University, MA; R.J. Reynolds Collection; Shawmut Bank of Boston; The Kemper Insurance Group; First National Bank of Seattle; The Continental Bank; The International Mineral and Chemical Corporation; Lake Shore National Bank of Chicago; The Frito Lay Corporation, Dallas, TX; Standish, Ayer, and Wood; The Index Group; The Oppenheimer Co. Chicago; United Airlines; M.B.N.A Bank; University of Dallas; Miami University, OH; The Dulin Gallery of Art; S.U.N.Y. Pottsdam; S.U.N.Y. Albany; Edinborough College; University of Rhode Island; University of Connecticut; University of Maine (Orono); University of Vermont; University of Massachusetts; University of New Hampshire; Westfield State College, University of Chicago Hospital, Newhouse, Wynn & Lily.
