Ralph Frisina

Member since 2021

A new member of RAA&M in 2021, Ralph Frisina began his creative career in commercial design, co-founding a boutique design firm in the late 1980’s where he created identities and graphics for the Berkshire Museum, Clark Art Institute, Norman Rockwell Museum, Tanglewood and the Berkshire Theatre Group, among many other entities. His design and illustration work has won numerous regional and national awards and has appeared in the New York Times, USA Today and Print Magazine. He has exhibited paintings at the Berkshire Museum, Lenox Library and RAA&M. Ralph holds a degree in Visual Communication from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh and studied under Milton Glaser at the School of Visual Arts in New York.

Frisina describes his work as abstract realism, and it spans various mediums from oil paint to ceramics. Drawn from vintage or industrial subject matter, his latest paintings explore the finality of objects and the character imbued on them throughout a lifespan. The documentation of human ingenuity – or the thoughtful preservation of an object – is integral to his recent works. While nature isn’t often the sole subject, it’s instead portrayed as an outside force to be acknowledged, appreciated or contested.

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