Timothy Frerichs’ Milkweed Installation, from 2024-2025
SUNY Distinguished Professor Timothy Frerichs will exhibit a group of new works and serve on a panel in Iowa.
Mr. Frerichs, of the Department of Visual Arts and New Media, will be among seven artists whose works engaging with the environment will be showcased in the Art & Ecology exhibition at the Olson-Larsen Galleries in Des Moines. Frerichs’ group of new works consists of a series of six and an installation of 21 drawings.
The exhibition’s opening reception will be held during Valley Junction’s Gallery Night, a showcase of new works by regional, national and international artists, on Friday, April 18, from 5 to 8 p.m.
Frerichs will also participate in the Art & Ecology panel that explores art and the environment on Saturday, April 19, from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m., also at Olson-Larsen Galleries. Moderating the panel discussion will be Kerri Johannson, senior director of Policy and Program with the Environmental Council of Iowa.
The exhibition and panel discussion coincide with and celebrate Earth Week and are free and open to the public.
Information about Frerichs’ exhibited new work, the Riparian Dream Series, is available here
More information about the Art & Ecology exhibition is available here
Additionally, Frerichs will have works exhibited this summer in Nebraska. He has been invited to display nine works in the Bloom Maps Series for the exhibition, "From the Great Lakes to the Great Plains: The Visible Current of Climate Change," at the Bemis Center for the Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE, from June 13 to Sept. 14.
Information about Frerichs’ exhibit in the Bloom Maps Series is available here
More information about the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts is available here
Frerichs has received a United University Professions Individual Development Award grant to help fund travel expenses.
