Spheres of AbEx - Heather James Fine Art

FRIEDEL DZUBAS (1915-1994) studied art in his native land beforefleeing Nazi Germany in 1939 and settling in New York City. In Manhattanduring the early 1950s, he shared a studio with fellow abstract painterHelen Frankenthaler. He began exhibiting his Abstract Expressionistpaintings at this time. His work was included in the “Ninth Street Show” inNew York City in 1951, and in group exhibitions at the Leo Castelli Gallery,the Stable Gallery, and the Tibor de Nagy Gallery among others.In the 1960s he became associated with Color Field painting andLyrical Abstraction. He was included in “Post-Painterly Abstraction” a1964 exhibition curated by Clement Greenberg. Dzubas was a friendof Greenberg, who in turn introduced him to Jackson Pollock and otherartists. During the last three decades of his career, Dzubas had more thansixty solo exhibitions around the world. He was represented by the AndreEmmerich Gallery and Knoedler Contemporary Arts in New York for morethan thirty years. In 1976 he settled in Massachusetts, but also paintedand lived in New York City, where his paintings were regularly exhibited.