Zenos Frudakis

Gallery • Education, Training, Accomplishments • Contact information

Subjects and media: Human figure, portraits, animals, reliefs, in bronze. Also oil paintings.

The sculptor speaks: "Zenos' emphasis has been the figure and the portrait, as demonstrated in his many monumental figure/portrait works, individual portrait busts and bas-reliefs. He excels at expressing the character and vitality of his subjects while capturing an accurate likeness. Zenos portfolio includes figure sculpture, animals, bas-reliefs, portraits -- both busts and paintings -of living and historical individuals, and poetic/philosophical sculpture with a post-modern sensibility. Over the past two decades, he has created monumental works in public and private collections throughout the US and abroad. Although Zenos creates personal, expressive works of art, he is a commissioned artist with wide-ranging versatility capable of sculpting subjects from the human form to animals."

At right: Freedom, GSK World Headquarters, 200 N 16th St, Philadelphia, PA 19102

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Education, Training, Accomplishments

Education & training  • Exhibitions  • Owners  • Awards & Memberships • Mentions in books & periodicals

Born San Francisco, California

Education & training

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; Bachelor in Fine Art and a Master in Fine Art at the University of Pennsylvania. Also studied sculpture with his brother, sculptor EvAngelos Frudakis, and oil painting with James Hanes, both winners of the Prix de Rome.

Exhibitions (selected)

Philadelphia International Airport, 2005

Atwater-Kent Museum, Philadelphia, Baseball, 2004

Fleisher Museum, Scottsdale, AZ, NSS, Masterworks of American Sculpture, 1999

 National Academy of Design, N.Y. Invited Artist, 166th Juried Annual Exhibition, 1991, 1993

National Academy of Design, N.Y. Invited Artist The Artist's Eye, 1997

National Sculpture Society, Political Portraits, 1997

Hakone Open-Air Museum, Japan, 1990, Rodin Grand Prize Exhibition, by invitation.

Medical College of Pennsylvania, Morani Gallery, Portraiture, 1994.

Chesterwood, Stockbridge, Mass., 1988.

Zygos Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1988, 1989.

Cavalier Galleries, Inc., two group shows, Stamford, Ct., 1988, Sculpture Garden, 1989.

The National Sculpture Society Celebrates the Figure, Chairman and exhibitor, Port of History Museum, Philadelphia, 1987.

Lever House, New York City, Group Show, 1990.

Sculpture In The Park, Invitational Group Shows, Loveland, Colorado, 1987, 1988, 1989.

National Sculpture Society, New York, 1977-1998

Institute of Contemporary Art, MFA Group Shows, Philadelphia, Pa. 1981-1983.

National Academy of Design, Juried Annual Exhibitions, New York, 1980, '84, '86, '90, '97.

Shidoni Gallery, New Mexico, 1982, 1992 -1994.

Allied Artists of America, Juried Annual Exhibitions, New York, 1981, 1980, 1991.

Institutions and/or corporations that own this artist's work

Utsukushi-ga-hara Open Air Museum, Japan

 Brookgreen Gardens, largest collection of American sculpture, South Carolina

 The Nobel Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden

 U.S. Embassy, Pretoria, South Africa  

 National Academy of Design, New York

 The Pentagon, Washington, D.C.

 General MacArthur Memorial Foundation, Norfolk, VA

 General George C. Marshall Foundation, Lexington, VA

 Lotos Club, New York City

 Glaxo, plc, London, Tokyo, Research Triangle Park, NC

 GlaxoSmithKline, Philadelphia, PA

 Emory University, Atlanta, GA     

 Dickenson College, Carlisle, PA

 Mission Hills Country Club and Resort, Rancho Mirage, CA

 Georgia Golf Hall of Fame, Augusta, GA

 Pinehurst Country Club and Resort, Pinehurst, North Carolina

Pennsylvania State Museum, Harrisburg, Pa.

City of Philadelphia

Don McLean, singer/songwriter

 Solid State Equipment Corporation, Ft. Washington, Pa.

 Lower Merion High School, Lower Merion, Pa.

 Ivory Coast Library, Ivory Coast, Africa

 Steve and Lori Leveen, Levenger catalog

 Philadelphia Martin Luther King Association

 Erie, Pennsylvania Martin Luther King Association

 Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library, Texas

 Bishop Desmond Tutu, South Africa

Dilworth, Paxson law firm, Philadelphia

Hillenbrand Industries, Indiana

City of Bethlehem, PA

 City of Latrobe, PA

Tralee Golf Club, Tralee, Ireland

 Spectacor, Philadelphia Flyers Hall of Fame, Philadelphia

 Richard Rangoon, Connecticut

Chris Kristofferson

Jane Curtin

Hal Holbrook

Ken Burns

 

Awards and Memberships

Academician, National Academy of Design

Fellow, National Sculpture Society (since 1983)

Edwin and Theresa Richards Award for Portraiture, National Sculpture Society Juried Annual Exhibition, "The Figure: Revolving Traditions," Fairfield University, Fairfield, Ct. 1991

Hakone Award, Utsukushi-ga-hara Open-Air Museum, Rodin Grand Prize, Japan, 1990

Henry Herring Art-In-Architecture Award for collaboration with architect and developer, National Sculpture Society, 1990

Silver Medal of Honor, National Sculpture Society Juried Annual Exhibition, New York, 1985

National Endowment for the Arts, development grant , sculpture, National portrait competition, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. for U.S. Capitol, 1985

Arts America, grant for sculpture, travel, lecturing on art in Africa, 1985

President's Prize, National Sculpture Society, 1985

Council of American Artists' Societies Awards, American Artists' Professional League Juried Annual Exhibition, N.Y., 1985

Liskin Award, Knickerbocker Artists Juried Annual Exhibition, N.Y., 1985

Tallix Foundry Prize, National Sculpture Society Juried Annual, 1982

Gloria Medal, National Sculpture Society Juried Annual Exhibition, 1981

John Spring Art Founder Award, National Sculpture Society Juried Annual Exhibition, N.Y., 1981

Certificate of Merit, Portraiture, National Academy of Design, N.Y., 1980

First Prize, North American Sculpture Exhibition, Colorado, 1989

 

Mentions in books and periodicals

Masters of American Sculpture, Donald Reynolds, Abbeville Press, NY, 1993

Masterworks of American Sculpture, Fleisher Museum, 1999

Brookgreen Gardens Sculpture, Vol. II, Robin Salmon

The National Sculpture Society Celebrates the Figure, “Contemporary Figure Sculpture”, Jean Henry; “The Return to Figuration:  American Art After World War II, by William Innes Homer

Forbes, 6/89, “Lest They Forget”

New York Times, 12/89, Grace Glueck

Arte Magazine, Italy, 10/90, “People of Note - The Rodin Grand Prize”

American Arts Quarterly, 1992, “Brookgreen Gardens:  Where Art and Nature Meet”

Dance Magazine, February, 1994

Philadelphia’s Outdoor Art, Roslyn F. Brenner, 1987, 2002, page 26

Champions of East Lake, Bobby Jones & Friends, Sidney L. Matthew, 1999

Payne at Pinehurst, Bill Chastain, 2004

Tales From Pinehurst, Robert Hartman, 2004, pages 80-81

 The Spirit of Pinehurst, Lee Pace, 2004, preface and pages 86-87

 Augusta and Aiken in Golf’s Golden Age, Stay Byrdy, 2002, page 124

The Official Phillies, Larry Shenk, Executive Editor, 2004, pages 67, 71

Phillies, The Official Magazine of the Philadelphia Phillies, 2004, Art Appreciation, page 35

Brandywine Country, Fall/Winter, 2004-2005, Age of Bronze, pages 6, 8-9

The Lotos Experience, The Tradition Continues, p. 34-35

Philadelphia, A Photographic Portrait, Richard Dunoff and Philip H. Wagner, 2004, page 14

 

Contact information

Website or blog: http://www.zenosfrudakis.com/index.html

Email: rofrudakis@aol.com