Education
M.F.A., University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Pratt Graphics Center, New York, NY
B.F.A. Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Experience
Teaching, The Hartford Art School at the University of Hartford
Rank: Professor Emeritus, Printmaking
One Person Shows
Eternal Beauty: Egg Tempera Paintings by Fred Wessel, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI
Constellations: The Night Sky, The Arden Gallery, Boston, MA
Constellations and Other Recent Work, The Arden Gallery, Boston, MA
New Works in Egg Tempera, The Arden Gallery, Boston, MA
Silver and Gold, The Arden Gallery, Boston, MA
An Exercise in Grace…the Art of Fred Wessel, The Evansville Museum of Art & Science, IN
New Figurative Works in Tempera, The Arden Gallery, Boston, MA
The Renaissance Revisited, The Arden Gallery, Boston, MA
New Figural Work, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY
The Arden Gallery, Boston, MA
Renaissance Rediscovered, The Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY
Predellas: New Paintings, The Arden Gallery, Boston, MA
The Arden Gallery, Boston, MA
The Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, MA
The Arden Gallery, Boston, MA
The Connecticut Gallery, Marlborough, CT
The Union League Club (through Printworks Gallery), Chicago, IL
Printworks Gallery (Paintings, Drawings & Prints), Chicago, IL
Stonepress Gallery, Seattle, WA
Stonepress Gallery, Seattle, WA
Stonepress Gallery, Seattle, WA
Invitational Exhibitions
Non Member Figurative Show, Salmagundi Club, NY, NY
The New Pre-Raphaelites: Illumination!, The Delaware Museum of Art, Era Gallery
The New Pre-Raphaelites, Harcum College, PA
Contemporary Realism, Gallery 1261, Denver, CO
Painting the Figure Now, The Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, WI
Art from the Egg-Five Tempera Painters, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, NC
Figure This, Five Points Gallery, Torrington, CT
“Il Cosmo” Viaggio tra Scienza e Arte, Villa Scaccabarozzi, Italy
The Figure, S.R. Brennen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM
LA Art, exhibited with S. R. Brennen Gallery
Brandywine Workshops-A Unique Vision, Snyderman-Works Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Untarnished, Loomis Chaffee School, Windsor, CT
Gold!, The Belvedere Museum, Vienna, Austria
ArtLA, Exhibited with Skotia Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Egg Tempera-A Special Exhibition of Contemporary Master Egg Tempera Painters,
Saks Galleries, Denver, CO
Egg Tempera: Contemporary Masters, The Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, VT
Realism Invitational, Skotia Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Layered Luminescence: The Art of Egg Tempera, 4 Person Show, ACA Galleries, New York, NY
The Luster of Silver, Silverpoint Drawings, The Evansville Museum of Arts and Science, Evansville, IN
Tempera: Ten, Westfield State College, MA
The Art of Tempera, 3 Person Show, R. Michelson Galleries, Northampton, MA
Seventh Annual Realism Invitational, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Precious Metals, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Exquisite Snake, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL
February Flowers, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY
Precious Metals, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Magic Realism: The New Generation, Sangre de Cristo Art Center, Pueblo, CO
Tempera/New Temperaments, 6 artists, 5 pieces included, Evansville Museum, Evansville, IN (Sept 22-Nov 3, ’02), Catalogue. Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM (Dec-Jan ’03);
Frye Museum, Seattle, WA (Mar 7-Jun 1, ’03)
Contemporary American Images All’Italiana, Seton Hall College
Still Lifes-Florals-Interiors, John Pence Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Egg Tempera, An Enduring Tradition II, Miami-Dade Community College (May-Jun ’02); Mary Washington Museum Gallery, Fredericksburg, VA (Sept-Oct ’02); The Wisteriahurst Museum, Holyoke, MA
Inventing Reality, Elements Gallery, Rockland, ME
The Figure, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY
Egg Tempera: An Enduring Tradition I, Anna Maria College, Paxton, MA
From the DeCordova Collection, Brodeur Worldwide-Through the DeCordova Museum
Focus on the Collection: Recent Acquisitions, The Art Gallery, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
Religion 2000, Mary Washington College, VA, (Nov ’99-Mar ’00) through Sherry French Gallery, March 2000 at Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY (12 Pieces)
February Flowers, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY
New Realism for a New Millenium, Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester
Small Sizes-Precious Pieces, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY
February Flowers, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY
February Flowers, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY
Small Sizes-Precious Pieces, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY
Dramatic Realism, The New Baroque, Southern Alleghenies Museum, PA (catalogue)
Re-presenting Representation, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY (’97-’98; catalogue)
Realism, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
February Flowers, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY
Small Sizes-Precious Pieces, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY
Gallery and Invited Artists’, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY
Brandywine Workshop, 25 Years of American Printmaking, Printed Image Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2 Person Show, Dec ‘95 The Arden Gallery, Boston, MA
Public Collections
The Museum of Modern Art, NY; The Brooklyn Museum, NY; The Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA; The Library of Congress; Evansville Museum of Art and Science IN; The Mackintosh Museum, Scotland; The DeCordova and Dana Museum of Art, MA; The Wichita Museum of Art, KS; Smith College Museum, MA; The University of Tianjin Fine Arts College, People’s Republic of China; The University of Glasgow, Scotland; Galleries Tolbuchin and Lovetch, Bulgaria; The Honolulu Academy of the Arts, HI; The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL; Harvard University, MA; R.J. Reynolds Collection; Shawmut Bank of Boston; The Kemper Insurance Group; First National Bank of Seattle; The Continental Bank; The International Mineral and Chemical Corporation; Lake Shore National Bank of Chicago; The Frito Lay Corporation, Dallas, TX; Standish, Ayer, and Wood; The Index Group; The Oppenheimer Co. Chicago; United Airlines; M.B.N.A Bank; University of Dallas; Miami University, OH; The Dulin Gallery of Art; S.U.N.Y. Pottsdam; S.U.N.Y. Albany; Edinborough College; University of Rhode Island; University of Connecticut; University of Maine (Orono); University of Vermont; University of Massachusetts; University of New Hampshire; Westfield State College, University of Chicago Hospital, Newhouse, Wynn & Lily, Kalamazoo Institute for Arts, MI.
Articles, Reviews & Books
• Natural Pigments Featured Artist
• Fred Wessel, Constellations, American Art Collector April 2016
• American Arts Quarterly, Spring 2016
• Fred Wessel, On Painting Flesh Tones, International Artist Magazine, December/January 2015
• Using Pigment Dispersions in Tempera Paintings by Fred Wessel — Natural Pigments, Artists Materials Articles
• Ancient Roots: Koo Schadler and Fred Wessel, American Art Collector Magazine, December 2012
• Vienna Review, Going for the Gold, the arts and crafts of precious metal:
A Klimt Year compendium at the Lower Belvedere, April 2012
• Creative Quarterly – The Journal of Art and Design #20, Fall 2011 (Two paintings reproduced)
• American Arts Quarterly, Review, Cover. Summer 2010
• Creative Quarterly – The Journal of Art and Design #16, Fall 2009 (Two paintings reproduced)
• Seeking Pure Light, the Work of Fred Wessel, Preview Massachusetts, August, 2009
• Layered Luminescence, Review, ARTNEWS, June 2009
• Layered Luminescence: The Art of Egg Tempera, Review, American Arts Quarterly, Spring 2009
• The Masters of Tempera, American Art Collector Magazine, March issue, 2009
• Fred Wessel, Masters of Realism Collection, American Artist Magazine, 12 pp. Fall/Spring 2008-2009
• Fred Wessel, Renaissance Wonder, Article and Cover, American Art Collector Magazine, April issue, 2007
• Using Egg Tempera & Gold Leaf to Achieve Renaissance Luminosity,
Feature Article and Cover, American Artist Magazine, July/August issue, 2006
• Atlas Coelestis-il Cielo Stellato nella Scienza e nell’arte — Felice Stoppa, Univesità Annunzio Press,
Chieti, Italia Becca (Sundial) p. 85
• Contemporary American Oil Painting, a book published by Jilin Fine Arts, China
(4 full page reproductions and biography) 2000
• City Secrets Guide to Italy, The Little Bookroom, NYC (Contributor)
• City Secrets Guide to New York City, The Little Bookroom, NYC (Contributor)
• Colors, a publication authored by Ginny Baier, published by American Artist Magazine,1999
• The Visual Poetry of Gold Leaf, Feature Article, American Artist Magazine, April issue, 1995
• Learning from the Italian Masters, Feature Article, American Artist Magazine, March issue, 1995
