Product Description: In moist, glossy swirls and chunks of impasto dough, Swiss artist Pia Fries (born 1955) blends painting with collage and silkscreen, often creating dialogues with older printed matter. Here she engages the legacy of the Marchioness Karoline Luise (1723-83), who produced a red pigment from the Krapp plant...read more

Product Description: Pia Fries (born in 1955 in Beromunster, Switzerland) studied under Gerhard Richter at the Art Academy in Dusseldorf, where she developed her signature style. It is defined by her use of paint as material--rather than letting composition and coloration be the central determinants of the way her canvasses look, she uses textural patterns and crisscrosses to construct and reconstruct them...read more

Product Description: Pia Fries combines a gluttonous love of thick paint with an energetic pleasure in driving it across the picture plane, so that one paint cluster leads or smears into another. More recently she has begun to deploy collage elements, heightening this 'pinball' method of composition in which paint dialogues with print...read more