Exhibit: Mark Freytag In-Person
About Mark Freytag
For more than three decades, I have expressed myself through my commercial graphic design work. I studied graphic design and fine art at the Dayton Art Institute and Wright State University.
Dayton has been my home base while designing ads, annual reports, brochures, corporate branding & websites. My commercial portfolio spans a virtual “Who’s Who” of fortune 1000 companies in the U.S.A., Mexico, Israel and Germany. My design work has appeared in design publications, including: Graphis Poster, Creativity, Best of Print, Print Regional Design Annual, and has been recognized at local and international design exhibitions. I continue to do some commercial work, but my main focus now is fine art. I have sold my artwork to private collectors. I have sold Giclée/digital prints and original mixed media/paintings.
Painting/Mixed Media Artwork
For years I had dreamed of getting back to painting. My design career took precedence until 2010 when I decided to stop dreaming and start producing. My paintings are mixed media abstract art usually on Arches Watercolor Paper, and also canvas. The paintings also use cardboard, acrylic paint, acrylic metallic paint, fabric, glass beads, gloss and dull latex paint and gloss and dull varnishes. The artwork is inspired by diverse influences: 20th century art, modern hard-edged painting, The Bauhaus, Chinese furniture, calligraphy, Roger Sayre and John Emery (two local artist), paintings and prints. Also, Jackson Pollock paintings and José Parlá paintings. A blending of structure and disorder inside defined shapes with striking and subtle color usage. These paintings occasionally use gloss contrasting with dull paint and sometimes, metallic and iridescent paint for sheen and brilliance.
