About

ARTIST STATEMENT

I was born in Detroit in 1965. Growing up, I watched the decline of a city that less than a century before was mostly farmland. From plowed fields and cows to boomtown workshop of the world to wasteland in 70 years. Neighborhoods, factories and skyscrapers abandoned and overgrown. The madness and magic of a city abandoned, the wonder of its stories has informed my work ever since. In my work, I examine the landscape of the natural and fabricated worlds and its influence on the human experience.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS & AWARDS

2021
Honorable Mention – Summertime, HelvetArt, Virtual Exhibition

2001            
Sand Boxing, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2000            
Swan Mural, Crane Arts Building, Philadelphia, PA

1998            
New Painting/Sculpture, Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1997            
Still Fishing, Snyderman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1991            
Work Surfaces, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022
New Members Exhibition, Silver Mine Galleries, New Canaan, CT
Move, Middletown Art Center, Middletown, CA

2021        
Pure Paint, Arts Benicia, Benicia, CA
Strokes of Genius, Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, MD
Summertime, HelvetArt, Virtual Exhibition
2021 Juried Exhibition, Floyd Center for the Arts, Floyd, VA
Home, Walk Bye, Jersey City, NJ
PAINT 2021, Silver Mine Galleries, New Canaan, CT
Into the Woods, Cultural Center of Cape Cod, South Yarmouth, MA
Landscapes 2021, Virtual Exhibition, Las Laguna Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

2020          
13th Annual Juried Art Exhibition, Majestic Galleries, Nelsonville, OH
Summers Shadow, A Way Gallery, Virtual Exhibition
PUSH/PULL – Attraction, Repulsion, and the In-Between, In Toto Virtual, Virtual Exhibition

2002            
San Francisco International Art Exposition, San Francisco, CA

2001            
USArtists 2001, 33rd Street Armory, Philadelphia, PA

2000            
USArtists 2000, 33rd Street Armory, Philadelphia, PA

Boston International Fine Arts Show, Clark House Gallery, Boston, MA

1998            
The Optimists’ Society: Presents New Nihilism Now, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia PA

1995            
Entropic Zones: Buildings and Structures of the Contemporary City, Rider University Gallery, Lawrenceville, NJ

1994            
Summer Group Show, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA

1993            
Objects of Modest Disposition, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA

1992            
Gendered Engendered, Community Education Center, Philadelphia, PA

1990            
8th Annual Outdoor Sculpture Show, Empire Fulton Ferry Street Park, New York, NY
May Day Sculpture Exhibition, Vox Populi, Philadelphia PA

SELECTED CITATIONS

2002            
Material Life: The Painting and Sculpture of Michael Frechette, Rider University Gallery

2001           
Hagen, Susan, “Creature Comforts”, Philadelphia City Paper, September, pgs 20-27

2000            
“Come Together”, Philadelphia City Paper, June, pgs 22-29

1998           
Rice, Robin, “He Knows What He Likes”, Philadelphia City Paper, April, pgs 3-9

1997           
Dickinson, James, “Michael Frechette/Still Fishing”, Eyelevel, September.
“Still Fishing”, New Art Examiner, July-August.
Nugent, Jeanne, ‘Urban Romance”, Philadelphia Weekly, April, pg 2

1997           
Schweedenwien, Jude, “Entropic Zones”, New Art Examiner, October

SPECIAL PROJECTS

2016 – Today Privy Digging

1989 – 1990 Curator of exhibitions, Vox Populi

1988 Founding member of Vox Populi gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1986 – 1988 Member of Sink Manhattan

1984 – 1985 Member of Some Guys Called Dave