Through painting and digital media, Gutzeit reenvisions the landscape by transforming its natural elements into abstract graphic patterns of various organic shapes, executed in colors from the electromagnetic spectrum - red, yellow, and blue - together with black and white. Drawing parallels between the sound waves of music and the light waves of painting, the artist leverages the pulsating vibrations which emanate from his abstract patterns and colors to generate optical sensations. Gutzeit’s practice draws on an improvisational approach, with each work deriving inspiration from its predecessor, creating a unified sequence of distinctly individual works.

Fred Gutzeit has exhibited in numerous galleries and institutions locally as well as internationally including MoMa PSI (New York), James Cohan Gallery (New York), A.I.R. Gallery (New York), the Jewish Museum (New York), Bronx Museum of the Arts, Artists Space (New York), Cleveland Institute of Art Among others. He is also the recipient of three Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grants.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019
Howl Arts Gallery, Bowery Then Now, NYC, NY

2017
VanDerPlas Gallery, New SigNatures, NYC, NY
Sabay’s WorkGloves for Your Eyes: Curated by Vernita Nemec, Queens, NY

2015
Pratt Manhattan, SigNatures at Pratt, NYC, NY

2014
Brian Morris Gallery, SigNatures, NYC, NY

2013
Tregoning & Company, SigNatures, Cleveland, Ohio
Red Dot, Dogs and Catskills: Curated by Richard Timperio, Hudson, NY
NeXXt, Flow Follow Flow, Curated by Rupert Ravens, Paterson, NJ

2012
SideShow Gallery, SigNatures, Brooklyn, NY

2010
Public Sculpture, TimePrism, Malesov/Prague, Czech Republic
Andre Zarre Gallery, Sympathy for the Devil, NYC, NY

2009
Rupert Ravens Contemporary, NextPost, Newark, NJ

2008
Pocket Utopia, Love to Fred from Lee Lozano, Brooklyn, NY

2007
SideShow Gallery, Original Sins (with Peter Reginato - Scuplture), Brooklyn, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019
PS112, PLUS 2 pix from 122: Selected by Cynthia Karasek, NYC, NY

2018
Turbulence-Curated by Odelette Cho, Sylvia Wald & Po Kim Gallery, NYC, NY

2017
Gaia Gallery, In the Balance: Curated by Neddi Heller, Brooklyn, NY

2016
David & Schweitzer Contemporary, NOMENCoLorATURE: Curated by Paul D’Agostino, Brooklyn, NY

2015
Momenta Gallery, Family Style: Curated by Julie Torres, Brooklyn, NY
Viridian Gallery, Art from Detritus: Curated by Vernita Nemec, NYC, NY

2014
Broadway Gallery, NYC Pop Up Art Exhibition, Brooklyn, NY

COLLECTIONS

Shenandoah Museum of Contemporary Art, Rupert Ravens, Director, Strasburg, VA, US Department of State, Washington, DC. US Library of Congress, Washington, DC. National Building Museum, Washington, DC (on extended loan from John Hechinger). Samuel Dorski Museum of Art, State University of New York, New Paltz, NY. Chemical Bank Art Collection, New York City. Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT. Wellington Managemetn Corporation, Boston, MA. Amerada Hess Corporation, New York City. Catskill Center for Conservation and Development, Arkville, NY. Cleveland, Art Association, Cleveland, OH.