Freddie Styles (b. 1944)
Silver Trees Revisited, Yellow, 2014-15
mixed media on canvas
signed, titled, and dated
12 x 24 inches
unframed

Generally good condition. Unlined. No holes, tears, or abrasions. Unframed (it is not intended to be framed).

Provenance: The ritual of rural living that requires a dependence on nature and the surrounding for subsistence had a profound effect on Freddie Styles, and continues to influence his painting. Flashes of nature appear in abstraction, expressed in new and innovative ways. Styles, an award winning horticulturalist, substitutes azalea roots for the traditional paintbrush. His work has been featured in Tradition Redefined: The Larry and Brenda Thompson Collection of African American Art. Here it is noted that, "Styles drenched root stems with pigment to apply layers of color on the surface of the painting, creating a work both literally and figuratively rooted in nature.” In other works he is known to press multiple sheets of crumpled fax paper with metallic inks onto a gessoed paper surface.
Styles is a graduate of Morris Brown College and lives in Atlanta. He has served as an artist-in-residence at Clark Atlanta University, Clayton State University, and Spelman College. He was the Director of City Gallery East in Atlanta, GA from 2003-2008. Styles has received several purchase awards from the Atlanta Life Insurance Company. In 2001, he was awarded a King Baudouin Foundation Cultural Exchange Program grant through the Community Foundation of Greater Atlanta to work and study in Belgium. Museum group exhibitions include the High Museum in Atlanta, GA, and the Telfair Museum of Art in Savannah, GA.

His work can be found in the collections of Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson Airport, The Paul Jones Collection, State of Georgia Art Collection, King and Spalding LLP, Clark Atlanta University, Spelman College, and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia.