Fred Garbers

Please join for a Fredi Schiff Levin Lecture with curator Mary Abell will be joined by writer and journalist David Ebony on Saturday, September 19 at 12pm. Included with $15 Museum admission, free for PAAM members.

Fred Garbers was born and raised in New York City. He studied at the Art Student’s League and after military service enrolled at Cooper Union where he studied with Robert Gwathmey, Morris Kantor and Nicolas Carone. He graduated from Cooper in 1958.

He started showing in group shows while still at Cooper Union and was given his first one man show in 1959 at the Artists’ Gallery in New York. Representation by the Krasner Gallery in New York followed and when the gallery closed he continued to show in solo and group exhibitions and galleries in New York, Cincinnati, OH, and Provincetown, MA.

He is a 2006 recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant for painting. His work is in the Hirshhorn Collection, The Addison Gallery of American Art, the Butler Museum of American Art, New York State University, the Provincetown Art Association Museum, Art in Embassies, USA, and numerous private collections.

Garbers taught painting and drawing in the SUNY system and in Truro, MA.

Generous support for this exhibition has been provided by William Rawn and John Douhan III.