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In the coming months I hope to include more artists who have participated in group or singular exhibitions. I recently had a conversation with Carolyn Frischling regarding her work that is currently on exhibit in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

What is your name and where do you live? 
Carolyn:  My name is Carolyn Frischling and I live in a little historic town called Sewickley near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 

Carolyn:  Yes, I have a Master of Fine Arts in printmaking from Washington University in St. Louis and was trained in traditional art-making methods, which I still practice and love.

Carolyn:  I'm inspired greatly by Modernism, Futurism, Pop and Graffiti; sculpture--Brancusi, Boccioni, Henry Moore, Tom Yody, Peter Reginato, Berta Fischer; glass--Dale Chihuly, Dino Rosin; painters--Kandinsky, Gorky, Piet Mondrian, Georgia O'Keefe, Helen Frankenthaler, Agnes Martin, Al Held, Brice Marden, Tomma Abts, Mark Grotjahn, Peter Doig, Sarah Morris, John Aslanidis, Justin Bower, Jonathan Christie, @poesiatranscend, Teo Pirisi, @moneyless1980, @librarystreetcollective, including @wais1, @samfriedman and Adrian Falkner, @spogo15, @kem_vegas, @qspuno, new media artists--Wade Guyton, Alain Vincent, Isaac Budmen, Wes L. Cockx, Nathaniel Smith, Terry Bowie, Stephen Paré, Nico Brons, Simon Degroot, Jesse Draxler, Bobbi McMurry, @rina_mualem; writers/teachers--St. Augustine, St. Therese of Liseux, Wassily Kandinsky, Herman Hesse, C.S. Lewis, Deepak Chopra, Eckhart Tolle, Thich Nhat Hahn, Robert Ault, Gong Shu Yi Shu, Bobbi McKibbin, Dawn Guernsey, Peter Marcus, Joan Hall, Richard Noyce, Rosaire Kopczenski.

© Carolyn Frischling

Carolyn:  I found out about the organization through word of mouth, and that is has a storied past with members including Mary Cassatt, Philip Guston and Andy Warhol. There is a juried entrance, and every year there is an Annual Exhibition, with a separate juried entrance and guest juror, usually held at the Carnegie Museum, but this year at The Westmoreland Museum of American Art. There are several opportunities to show with the group during the year, but the Annual is the organization's most prestigious event.

Carolyn:  I submitted two entries; the first, a trio titled Quidditas/Unknowable, which means essence, and the second, a pair of 2D and 3D versions of an abstract collaboration titled Actualizing Abstraction with Isaac Budmen. The 3D version is a 9x9x2 inches full color sandstone print. I was very fortunate to work with Isaac teambudmen.com whom I met on Instagram. He wrote The Book on 3D Printing, and is an artist-in-residence with the Metropolitan Museum's Digital Media Lab and has been invited to lecture at the New York University's Tisch School of Arts. I was also very happy to have both entries selected, five pieces in all.

Quidditas/Unknowable I © Carolyn Frischling

Quidditas/Unknowable II © Carolyn Frischling

Quidditas/Unknowable III © Carolyn Frischling

Carolyn:  Yes, it was a memorable night. My trio Quidditas/Unknowable was a group of resin-covered prints on aluminum, each 20x20x1 inches and it seemed that the people I talked to were more interested in the presentation, which I wanted to be as high-tech as possible for a static image, given the medium.

Actualizing Abstraction with Isaac Budmen © Carolyn Frischling

Carolyn:  I would buy a good inkjet printer because you'll need to proof your work even if you decide to print your work with a specialty printer.

Hypostatization © Carolyn Frischling

Do you sell your work? If so, where?

Carolyn:  I sell my work on curioos.com. They are one of the only publishers of fine art prints to offer limited edition prints on Hahnemule paper with my own signature. Each print comes with a certificate of authenticity. I also sell prints on aluminum and on silk, when available, on my commercial site carolynfrischling.com

Carolyn:  Do you remember when only black and white photography was considered worthy of being called art and then color photography became accepted? It's the same with digital and mobile art, which are getting bigger all the time. Thank you Geri for this interview.

Quidditas VIII  © Carolyn Frischling

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