It’s Day 119 and I have a ton of house stuff happening right now.  They are still trying to install the vent hood and I’m waiting for the screen guy to show up.  I’d like to spend more time on my painting and blog, but gotta get life done. 🙂  Join me in celebrating Friedel Dzubas today.

Friedel Dzubas (born April 20, 1915 in Berlin, Germany, died 1994 in New York) was a German-born American abstract painter.

Friedel Dzubas studied art in his native land before fleeing Nazi Germany in 1939 and settling in

New York City. In Manhattan during the early 1950s, he shared a studio with fellow abstract painter Helen Frankenthaler. He began exhibiting his Abstract expressionist paintings at this time. His work was included in the Ninth Street Show in New York City in 1951, and in group exhibitions at the Leo Castelli gallery, the Stable Gallery, and the Tibor de Nagy Gallery among others. After the Ninth Street Show annual invitational exhibitions were held at the Stable Gallery throughout the 1950s. The poster of the second New York Painting and Sculpture Annual at The Stable Gallery in 1953, included an introduction by Clement Greenberg:

In the 1960s he became associated with Color field painting and Lyrical Abstraction. He was included in Post-painterly abstraction a 1964 exhibition curated by Clement Greenberg. Dzubas was a friend of Clement Greenberg, who in turn introduced him to Jackson Pollock and other artists.

His large work (up to 24 feet (7.3 m) wide) became more fluid. During the last three decades of his career, Dzubas had more than sixty solo exhibitions around the world. He was represented by the André Emmerich gallery and Knoedler Contemporary Arts in New York for more than thirty years. In 1976 he settled in Massachusetts, but also painted and lived in New York City, where his paintings were regularly exhibited.

He used Magna paint an oil based acrylic paint. Magna was originally developed by

the paintmakers Leonard Bocour and Sam Golden for and also used by Morris Louis. Dzubas would apply thick layers of color over washes, scrubbing the paint into the unprimed canvas. Dzubas used staining, brushing and other ways of applying color. His paintings were generally large in size and scale, but he made many very small paintings as well.

Biography is from wikipedia.

Even though I was rushed today, I still had a wonderful time painting this piece.   I hope you enjoy it as well.  I will see you tomorrow on Day 120.  Best, Linda