Opening Reception: Friday, Sept. 25th 6-9 pm

Fred Stonehouse was born in Milwaukee, received his BFA from the University of Wisconsin in 1982, and had his first solo show in Chicago in 1983. He is a Milwaukee painter who has been, from the beginning, associated with funky Chicago imagists like Phyllis Bramson, Roger Brown, Henry Darger, Tony Fitzpatrick, Jim Nutt, Hollis Sigler and H.C. Westermann.

Fred’s influences span not only the “old masters” of Chicago, but also Mexican folk art, vintage signage, circus sideshow banners, religious iconography and Northern Renaissance painting, to name a few. Fred has been in over fifty solo shows and approximately one hundred group shows at galleries such as Carl Hammer in Chicago, Howard Scott in New York and Koplin/Del Rio in Los Angeles.

In recent years Fred has begun to exhibit in Berlin and Hamburg, Germany, bringing an awareness of his work to a European audience. He was recently featured in the Gestalten publication “The Upset”, a large format art book available in major bookstores nation wide.

His shows have been reviewed in the Village Voice, the Chicago Sun Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, Die Welt, Art in America, New Art Examiner, and Art Papers, among others.