Gudrun Mertes Frady Press

Mertes-Frady Paintings Weave Depth into Abstraction at Markel

by Charles A. Riley
Art Reviews Hampton, August 31, 2016

Mertes-Frady weaves ellipses with a thin, clean-edged tape applied with a legerdemain that makes it seem she is drawing with the material. Behind and within the tape, which skates along a crisp edge, the brushy application of layers upon layers of oil paint builds to a surface that has the depth and finish of encaustic.

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An Interview with Artist Gudrun Mertes-Frady

by Julia Karabenick
Geoform, August 2006

My focus has always been on abstract art. I’m attracted to its reduction of the ‘real’ to its essence, to its freedom of formulation. My interest is in the mathematics of the surface. Abstraction takes more than seeing – it takes contemplation. My aim is to elicit magic, a feeling of something that can’t be grasped with the head only. That is what interests me when I look at art – I want the experience.

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From Art in America

by Edward Leffingwell
May 2004

Gudrun Mertes-Frady’s commitment to the material pleasure of paint and her expanding vocabulary of ormal interests have recently resulted in a remarkable change from the staurated swirls and shingled grids that characterize her work of the mid- to late 1990’s.

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Die Welt

by Andrea Hilgenstock
November 13, 2009

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