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BONNIE
FREIREICHSCULPTOR/PAINTER
 Born and raised in New York
City, Bonnie has been an artist all her life. Even from her early elementary
school days she was recognized as an artist and held the position of the school
illustrator for school publications and chalkboards in history and geography
classes.
Bonnie was an art major in high school, and graduated Queens College in New York
City with a degree in Art Education. Bonnie studied with John Ferren, Elias
Friedensohn and Joseph Campbell at Queens where she was also the art editor of
her college annual during her junior and senior years.
After graduating from college, she taught high school art for over twenty years,
first in New York City and then in Fulton County, Georgia. After receiving her
degree in Art Therapy in 1980 and becoming a Registered Art Therapist, Bonnie
went on to create an Art Therapy program for Independence High School in
Roswell, an alternative open classroom school in Fulton County.
Being an educator and therapist for most of her life, Bonnie retired in 1998 to
finally pursue her lifelong dream of being a full time artist, something she
never had time for while teaching others. Although she greatly misses the
interaction with young people, she is thrilled to finally be producing her long
planned for body of work.
For most of her life, Bonnie was primarily a painter, studying with many
painters in New York and Atlanta; she most recently studied painting with Cheryl
Baird. For the past six years however, she has been working mostly in three
dimensions, creating very personal sculptures of people. Having first taken
classes in life sculpture with Tom Williams, Bonnie went on to develop her own
style and is now creating sculptures which celebrate the cycles of life. Her work focuses on the relationships between
people and the relationship between positive and negative space. Bonnie works in
clay creating not only a physical likeness of the subject, but a
spiritual one as well. I find my greatest joy is in making sculpture,
especially when the clay Im working with suddenly becomes the person and looks
back at me.
Bonnie donated her sculpture, Mother and Child to Grady Hospital for its newly
designed labor and delivery area and was displayed at the reception for Grady
Hospital at the SunTrust Gallery on April 2, 2004. Later will be in the
lobby of the Grady Hospital Labor and Delivery wing. She has also donated a
sculpture for auction in 2001, 2002, and 2003, to the Susan G. Komen Pink Tie
Ball which helped support their effort in fighting breast cancer. I like to
share my art with others in hopes that they will find it as uplifting a source
of joy to view, as it is for me to create.
Exhibits and Awards
2007
March Three Person Show at the Church of the
Atonement
2006
December Dawson County National Show
Sculpture (Jurors
commendation)
December Atlanta Artists Center
November Atlanta Artists Center
August Portrait Society of Atlanta
April-May South Cobb Arts Alliance (Best in Show)
April Atlanta Artists Center Dogwood credentials
February Atlanta Artists Center Traveling Show
2005
December Atlanta Artists Center
December Guests Gallery on line (First Finalist)
November Atlanta Artists Center
October Limelight Gallery
August www.artkudos.com/2005/artists.html
May Atlanta Artists Center Renaissance Show
April Atlanta Artists Center Dogwood Show
(Best in Show)
March Atlanta Artists Center "Hanging Out With Art"
2004
December Atlanta Artists Center
(Honorable Mention)
December Guest Gallery Online
November Limelight Gallery
October Atlanta Artists Center
August Kennesaw University-Art of the Golden Generation
(Third Place)
August GASP Gallery Show
April Atlanta Artists Center Dogwood Show
(Best in Show)
April Royal Gallery Women's Show "Wigs"
2003
December Atlanta Artists Center
(Second Place)
November
Dawson County
Arts Council Holiday Show
October Atlanta Artists Center
July Atlanta Artists Center
(Honorable Mention)
2001
Spruill Center for the Arts
2000
Spruill Center for the Arts
1999
Spruill Center for the Arts
Memberships
American Art Therapy Association
Atlanta Artists Center
Portrait Society of Atlanta
Southeastern Pastel Society
South Cobb Alliance
Contact
Bonnie
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