Barbetta Abbott
Amber Albanese
Mary Bennett
David Calzolari
George M.Catechis
Sam Chinkes
Robert Cranley
James Donahue
Corliss Eden
Lori Ehlke
Sandra Feldman
Drina Fried
Ted Garry
Libby Garry
John Goad
Marcia Greengard
Jeff Hagen
Steve Jasper
Stephen Jones
Pat Kaufman
Bonnie Kelso
Anneliese Kielhorn
Richard Kielhorn
Loren Kirby
Roland Knight
Yoko Konopik
Ben Krug
Brent Land
Ruth Lastuvka
Theresa Lucero
Jana Lynch
Gregory Maestas
Ruth Maestas
Melanie Moore
Andre Mouton
Charles Mull
Kristina Mull
Kathleen Mullinnix
Dolores Nast
Mary Palmer
Mary Peterson
Gina Quaranto
Steamy Raimon
Roberto Rico
Aldema Ridge
Mark Ross
Felice Sacks
Scott Schoen
Adam Schwieder
Doug Sneed
Kenneth Spann
Esther Surany
Kim Tempest
Roy Thomas
Jenny Valdez
Lisa Verrept
Sharron Westeren
Karen Wheeler
Annie Wilbur
Maggi Winslow

Drina Fried
watercolor, fabric collage, mixed media

Drina won her first art competition at age 11. Aside from summer classes at the Albright-Knox Museum of Art, portrait-drawing classes in her twenties, and one formal graduate level art history course while getting degrees at SUNY at Buffalo, she didn’t pursue a formal art degree. Instead she used her Regents Scholarship to find a career to support herself. In the 1970’s, Drina sold two of her only three art pieces at the time, as well as her house in Rochester, New York where she worked as a school psychologist, and came west.

In 1994 Drina's husband gave her some silk fabric he’d picked up in his earlier travels, and with the help of her school's Home Economics teacher, learned how to sew clothes. Leftover scraps of fabric led her to her take up visual art again. She was encouraged by winning prizes for years for her art collage and water media works at the Kern County Fair. In 2005, she decided to work as a fine artist full time. She has since had a number of solo shows, and continues to win prizes for her collage and water media works.

www.artbydrina.com
email: drinafried@yahoo.com

The Aquarium
fabric collage and mixed media
15x30"