Angela Fraleigh

Assistant Professor

Courses:

All levels of drawing and painting

Education:

M.F.A. in Painting/ Printmaking, Yale University School of Art, May 2003
B.F.A in Painting, Boston University, 1998 Magna Cum Laude

Awards/Residencies:

2005: CACHH, Individual Artist Grant Fellowship, Houston, TX
2005: Louis Comfort Tiffany Award Nominee
2004-05: Eliza Randall Prize, Glassell School of Art, MFA Houston, TX
2003-05: Core Program Glassell School of Art MFAH, Houston, TX
2003: Alice Kimball English Traveling Fellowship 2003
1994-98: Dean’s Scholarship, Merit Based award

Biography:

Angela Lynn Fraleigh is a painter living in Brooklyn, NY and Allentown, PA. Her work questions social constructs of beauty, class, gender and role-play. Born in Beaufort South Carolina, she grew up in New York and attended Boston University on a Dean’s Scholarship earning her BFA in Painting. Between her undergraduate and graduate education she founded the Hinged Artists Group in Seattle and curated and participated in multiple exhibitions through it. After graduating from Yale University with her MFA in Painting/ Printmaking in 2003 she was awarded the Alice Kimball English travel grant enabling a research tour throughout Europe. A few months later she moved to Houston, TX where she was an Artist-in-Residence at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston CORE Fellowship program.

Her work has appeared in several exhibitions including “Drama, Romance, Loneliness, Narcissism and many more diseases of the Soul” at Massimo Audiello in NY, NY and “Reality Unchecked” at P.P.O.W. gallery, recently reviewed in the N.Y.Times. Solo exhibitions include “forever is not enough” at Inman Gallery in Houston, TX and “there i still my thirst” at Women and Their Work in Austin, TX. Angela has received multiple awards and her work is held in numerous public and private collections including the Museum of Fine Arts Houston.

Angela looks forward to International exposure this fall at the Artissima Arts Fair in Turin, Italy where she will be featured with Inman gallery.

Before coming to teach drawing and painting full time at Moravian College Angela was teaching at Rice University and The Glassell School of Art in Houston, TX.

Artist Statement:

"Questioning social constructs of beauty, class, gender and role-play I am interested in the complications of desire, what power people have available to them and how they use that power. These images serve as a means of escape from one’s personal histories but also provide a space to question these idealistic scenarios. Drawing on dramatic moments from literature and framing the romantic stereotypes that are created these images are complicated by obscured power structures. Ambiguity conceals where authority lies in these familiar images disrupting our understanding of these hackneyed relationships while bringing into the foreground the continual power struggles still fueling our political, social and intimate relationships.

These tensions are heightened, as paint itself becomes a tool for the disturbance. It is a main protagonist in the story and a carrier of meaning. Violent and seductive, threatening and unpredictable it complicates the image leaving us unsure if the figures are being birthed or eaten away; if the paint is taking control, acting as savior, interrupting, manipulating or providing the stimulus for the relationship. Physicality of the paint both cankers and covers the narrative caressing the fine line between victim and volunteer. There is a desperate human quality in the work, one that embraces the flawed hero.... you know what was supposed to have happened but you also know it didn't."

Website:

AngelaFraleigh.com