Zenos Frudakis

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Zenos Frudakis (* 1951 in San Francisco ) is an American sculptor.

He lives and works near Philadelphia . His often monumental works include a. in the Brookgreen Gardens Sculpture Park in South Carolina ; in the New York Lotos Club ; in the Utsukushi ga-hara open-air museum in Ueda ; in the National Academy of Design ; in the US embassy in Pretoria - as well as in companies, institutions and private collections.

Life

Frudakis next to his sculpture of the former mayor of Philadelphia, Frank Rizzo

His father was the Greek musician and poet Vasilis Frudakis. Zenos Frudakis grew up in Wheeling, West Virginia and Gary, Indiana , where he worked in the steel mills. He started sculpture very early and went to Philadelphia in 1972 to study at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts . His teachers included two Prix ​​de Rome winners : his older brother Evangelos Frudakis and the painter James Hanes. At the University of Pennsylvania , Zenos earned both a Bachelor and a Master of Fine Arts .

Honourings and prices

Frudakis was nominated for inclusion in the National Sculpture Society by Walker Hancock and Donald DeLue and was the youngest sculptor to be accepted. From 1988 to 1992 he was also a member of the board of directors . In 1993 he was elected a member ( NA ) of the National Academy of Design .

In 1990 Frudakis was invited to take part in the third Rodin exhibition in Japan, where he won the Hakone Prize at the Utsukushi-ga-hara open-air museum. The museum acquired a cast of Frudakis' sculpture Reaching .

Exhibitions

  • National Academy of Design, New York, and National Sculpture Society Juried Annual Group Shows 1980s - 2009
  • Atwater Kent Museum, Philadelphia, 2005
  • Philadelphia International Airport , 2004
  • Fleisher Museum, Scottsdale, AZ, Masterworks of American Sculpture, 1999
  • Hakone Open-Air Museum, Japan, Rodin Grand Prize Exhibition, 1990
  • Chesterwood, Stockbridge, Massachusetts , 1988
  • Institute of Contemporary Art, Group Shows, Philadelphia, PA, 1983

literature

  • David Appelbaum and Mel Thompson (Eds.): World Philosophy . Vega, 2002, p. 250-51 .
  • Boyne, Walter J., Rosalie Frudakis, Katherine Jaeger, et al .: The United States Air Force Memorial Honor Guard, A Sculpture by Zenos Frudakis . Techni Press, 2007.
  • Richard Dunhoff and Philip H. Wagner: Philadelphia, A Photographic Portrait . Twin Lights Publishers, 2004, pp. 14 .
  • Goode, James M .: Washington Sculpture . Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
  • Gordon, Robert, and Tom Burgoyne: Movin 'On Up . MidAtlantic Press, 2004, pp. 264-64 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robin R. Salmon, Brookgreen Gardens Sculpture (Brookgreen Gardens, 1993), Vol. 2, pp. 188-91.
  2. ↑ The Lotos Experience, The Tradition Continues (Lotos Club, 1995), pp. 34-35.
  3. ↑ Third Rodin Grand Prize Exhibit, The Utsukushi-ga-hara Open Air Museum, Hakone Open Air Museum, Embassies of Greece, Spain, United Kingdom and British Consul, United States, West Germany, 1990, pp. 27-28.
  4. ↑ on his admission to the academy, the life-size bronze bust of Sheila .
  5. ^ Gene Freedman, "The Unveiling of a Memorial," USIA World , April 1989, pp. 10-11. See also "Hope and Glory," Philadelphia Inquirer , Sunday March 12, 1989, title and pp. 4H-5H; "Martin Luther King Jr Is Remembered," Herald International Tribune , Jan 17, 1989, front page; and "Bust of Dr. King," Washington Post , Jan. 17, 1989, p. 1.
  6. ^ Sarah Blackman, "Sculpting a Life" (feature article on Frudakis), The Pennsylvania Gazette , Class of '82, November / December 2002, p. 3.
  7. ↑ nationalacademy.org: National Academicians / Frudakis, Zenos, NA 1993 ( Memento of the original from June 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on June 21, 2015) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nationalacademy.org
  8. ↑ Third Rodin Grand Prize Exhibit, The Utsukushi-ga-hara Open Air Museum, Hakone Open Air Museum, Embassies of Greece, Spain, United Kingdom and British Consul, United States, West Germany, 1990, pp. 27-28.
  9. ^ Donald Reynolds, Masters of American Sculpture (Abbeville Press, 1993), p. 250.
  10. ^ Fleisher Museum. Masterworks of American Sculpture, 1999.
personal data
SURNAME Frudakis, Zenos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH San Francisco