FRIESE UNDINE
555 Ovington Avenue #C33
Brooklyn, New York 11209
frieseundine@hotmail.com
Born in 1965
AWARDS/COMMISSIONS
2003 Margaret Klimek Phillips Foundation Fellowship
2002 Illinois Arts Council grant
2002 Backdrop painting for Theater Oobleck, Chicago,Il
2001 Backdrop painting for The Factory Theater, Chicago,IL
1995 Murals at Local 121, Seattle, WA
1994 King County Arts Commission Performance Grant
Murals at Moe’s Café, Seattle, WA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007 Substructure Superstructure, Packer Schopf Gallery, Chicago
Take off the Head 2007, Supreme Trading Gallery, New York
2006 I Too am in Arcadia, Aron Packer Gallery, Chicago, IL
I Too am in Arcadia (Part 2), William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
2005 Take off The Head, Chicago Cultural Center
Mere Nature Delineated, Baron Odom Gallery, Rome, Italy
2004 Nature Boy, Aron Packer Gallery, Chicago, IL
Monkey Persuasion, Prater Rouse Gallery, Norfolk,VA
2003 Perdition in Chickentown, William Traver Gallery, Seattle, Wa
2002 Perdition in Chickentown, Aron Packer Gallery, Chicago, IL
2001 Machiavelli See, Machiavelli Do, Anne Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
Thee, Etc., William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
2000 The Party, William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
Machiavelli and the Bottle, Las Manos Gallery, Chicago, IL
Machiavelli and the Bottle, Salt Lake City Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT
1999 Feature: Friese Undine, Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID
Stump, William Traver Gallery, Seattle,WA
Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo Controlled Trial, Anne Nathan, Chicago, IL
1998 We Ate Our Horses, William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
1997 I Will Fall Apart, I Will Not Fall Apart, William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
1994 Curtain Call, MIA Gallery, Seattle, WA
1995 The Affluent Father, MIA Gallery, Seattle, WA
1994 Library of the Untouchable Bride, MIA Gallery, Seattle, WA
1993 Heaven, Cliff Michael Gallery, Seattle, WA
1992 Mister Shoe Talks, Galleria Potatohead, Seattle, WA
1991 I Thought About You, Fast Forward, Seattle WA
Hearth, The Artspace, Seattle, WA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007
2004
2003
2003
2003
2002
1999
1997
1996
1995
1994
1993
1992
1991
Promised Land, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York
Baron Odom Gallery, Rome, Italy
Prater Rouse Gallery, Norfolk, VA
Politics as Usual, Aron Packer Gallery, Chicago, IL
The Last Judgement, Bumbershoot, Seattle, WA
Take Off the Head, Arena Gallery, Chicago, IL
Natural History, Aron Packer Gallery, Chicago, IL
Northwest Documenta, Salem,OR
New Religion, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma WA
“SE Editions: A Selection of Prints” Published by Sean Elwood, Greg Kucera Gallery,
Seattle, WA
They Shoot Painters, Don’t They?, Center on Contemporary Art (CoCA), Seattle, WA
Secret Languages: Personal Text in Art, MIA Gallery, Seattle, WA
They Shoot Painters, Don’t They? CoCA, Seattle, WA
Straight from the Heart, Folklife Museum, Seattle, WA
Ex Libris, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA
Only the Shadow Knows, Art Access Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
CoCA Northwest Annual, CoCA, Seattle, WA
Reading and Dreaming, Signature Bound Bookstore, Seattle, WA
Italia Restaurant, Seattle, WA
Martyrs, Madonnas, and Translations, with Susan Zoccola and Jason and Munger, O.K.
Hotel, Seattle, WA
CoCA Carnival, Installation with Curtis Taylor, CoCA, Seattle, WA
Handmade Books, The Living Museum of Letterpress Printing
Sweet Tooth Ballroom, Fast Forward, Seattle, WA
REFLEX Print Portfolio, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
Added Words, Warwick Gallery, Seattle, WA
The Dowser of Fontanelle, The Weathered Wall, Seattle, WA
Here Today, Security Pacific Gallery, Seattle, WA
Intestinal Burlesque, Installation with Eve Cohen, Rebar, Seattle, WA
Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA
Serenades, Cliff Michael Gallery, Seattle, WA
Bla, Bla, Bla, Warwick Gallery, Seattle, WA
Bedtime Stories and Chapel Tales, with Eve Cohen and Bruce Hollister, The Artspace,
Seattle, WA
Art in Form Bookstore, Seattle, WA
The Snake Handlers, Cyclops Café, Seattle, WA
Hearth, The Artspace, Seattle, WA
O.K. Hotel, curator, Seattle, WA
Celebration of Printmakers and Book Artists, Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle, WA
Fast Forward, Seattle, WA
1990
1989
1988
1987
The Anthony Collection, Seattle, WA
Domain, Seattle, WA
Flamenco, O.K. Hotel, Seattle, WA
Harvesting the Moths, Pioneer Square Saloon, Seattle, WA
Cross Currents, touring exhibit, College of Creative Studies Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
Art Bound, Bumbershoot 1990, Seattle, WA
Fast Forward, Seattle, WA
The Book Stripped Bare, co-curator with Janet Fryberger, Art in Form Bookstore, Seattle,
WA
A.F.L.N. Gallery, Seattle, WA
Desire, Globe Café, Seattle, WA
Pictures from the Book of Guess, Café Mars, Seattle, WA
Harvard Espresso Gallery, Seattle, WA
Quincy Street Coffee House, Port Townsend, WA
The Night of Guess, curator, Cinema In Your Face, Salt Lake City, UT
Pictures from the Book of Guess, The Blue Mouse Theater, Salt Lake City, UT
PERFORMANCE
2003 "Known Unknowns" Puppet plays with Theater Oobleck, Chicago,Il
2002 Monologue for “Shades of Parkland” Vodvil Theater, Seattle Wa
1994 "The Affluent Father", On the Boards, Seattle, WA
1993 “Mister Shoe Talks” Galleria Potato Head, Seattle, Wa.
1992-94 Member of the “Black Cat Orchestra”
COLLECTIONS
New York Public Library, Complete set of SE Editions prints: "The Shrinking Jaw"
Chaney Cowles Museum
PUBLICATIONS
2001, 2003: New American Paintings -Midwest edition