Zipora Fried

The Sky Lounge at Lyra provided a perfect placement for a unique artwork and in 2022 Rockrose commissioned renowned artist Zipora Fried to create a piece in her signature style of colored pencil abstraction. The commissioned artwork provides a moment of contemplation and an enduring connection to the artistic community of New York City.

Zipora Fried was born in 1963 in Haifa, Israel and currently lives and works in New York City. She studied at the Academy of Applied Arts, Vienna. Her work meditates on the relationship between the surface presence and the subconscious, and the potential of the artist’s hand to create and negate shape and form. Layers of line, color, and material build upon one another, occluding rational meaning for a phenomenological experience.

Process and endurance are fundamental themes of Fried’s practice. Her meticulously crafted sculptures and drawings are the cumulative effort of lengthy, labor-intensive processes, which form a singular “monument.” Lush colored pencil drawings, worked on over a period of months, are at once dense and contemplative, purifying and serene. Fried says, “There are moments with images where they affect you before you can think. I’m looking for that moment.”

Zipora Fried (b. Haifa, Israel). Recent exhibitions include As the Ground Turns, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York (2019); (wordless) at Small Editions, New York (2017); Late October, On Stellar Rays, New York, NY (2016); and Zipora Fried: Some Things Have Meaning, Others Don’t, Marfa Contemporary, Marfa, TX (2015). Her work can be found in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Magasin 3, Stockholm, Sweden; The Jewish Museum, Vienna, Austria; and the Austrian Government’s Permanent Collection of Contemporary Art.