Pia Fries

For this exhibition, the artist will exhibit a frieze of horizontal paintings in the newly refurbished downstairs gallery and large new paintings in the upstairs gallery. Alongside these works, we will be showing a set of four newly published aquatints, printed and published by the Crown Point Press, San Francisco.

In these new paintings, collectively entitled Schwarzwild (wild pig), Fries begins with a skeleton of imagery taken from black and white botanical illustrations by Maria Sibylla Merian (1647- 1717), details of which are screen-printed onto the hard wooden surface of the support.