| About Drina Fried |
2012- continuing to show 2 dozen artworks at Tinoco's Kitchen- VIP room- in Las Vegas
Club- 13 Fremont St. Las Vegas
juried Salon Show on February 18 - PUAH-.thepopuparthouse.com Reception 6-8 P.M.
Henderson, NV. show continues.
2011- Artwork on display at :
Tinoco's Kitchen- VIP room- in Las Vegas Club- 13 Fremont St. Las Vegas- Aug. 7 until 2012
Solo Show - Gallery at Liberty Point Opens Nov. 14 (Reception - free to public on Nov.. 16,
2011) -Solo artshow- art by drina in the Multigenerational Center -250 S. Green Valley
Pkwy; Henderson, NV 89012- show remains until December 16, 2011
Juried show- Sin City at University of Nevada at Las Vegas -M.Barrick Museum- Spring, 2011
Vegas Art Guild Show- "Turn It Up"- Clark County Library- 1401East Flamingo Rd., Las
Vegas 89119 June 21 - Sept. 11, 2011
2010- August 9, 2010, Presented for the Vegas Art Guild. I explained my "Journey from
psychology to artist". See pictures on my page at: www.facebook.com
Enso Japanese Bar- in Bakersfield- 2010
Juried into Bite at the Museum- Event 9-18-10 Springs Preserve Museum- Las Vegas -
Honorable Mention for "Cactus Apples"
2009- "Red Couch" won "Best of Show" at the 29th annual "Celebrating Life" Charleston
Heights Art Center in Las Vegas. Following this show 7-14-09, Tranquillity #2 -"Red Couch"
showed in the winner's circle at Las Vegas City Hall until September 27, 2009. 3rd prize
at Annual Vegas Art Guild Spring Show; Best of Show at "Celebrating Life" 29th annual
show. Artwork shown at the The Canyon Ranch Spa Artwalk, between the Venetian and
Pallazzo in Las Vegas for the second time, and at the Pfaff Downtown Sewing Center.
Continued to write articles for the Henderson Art Association and Vegas Art Guild. (Articles
Written By Drina Fried )
2008 - March-May- Solo art show at Spotlight Theatre in Bakersfield. Continuing rotating
change-outs in central California, group shows in Henderson and Las Vegas, Nevada.
Juried into a Contemporary Art Center show in Las Vegas; Artwork shown at the The
Canyon Ranch Spa Artwalk, between the Venetian and Pallazzo in Las Vegas, Represented
by the City of the World Gallery in Las Vegas. She also wrote interviewing articles for the
Henderson Art Association and Vegas Art Guild.
2007 - Rotating change-out Exhibits at various Kern County Administration Buildings and
businesses; May, 2007- 3 pieces accepted in the Bakersfield Art Association “extra large”
art pieces show- 5th place for “Mullions Out to Vegas"
2008 to the present - She continues to show in California and Nevada predominantly,
producing embellished fabric art as her specialty. Her work is admired though not yet widely
known.
October, 2006– January, 2007 Art show at Kern Central Credit Union - 2 sculpturers; Drina
as sole hanging artist – 73 pieces of work – Invited by the Arts Council of
Kern. 2006
Exhibition shows at the Bakersfield Philharmonic Orchestra, Art-In-The-Park opening, and
juried into the Contemporary show at the Bakersfield Art Association.
2002 - 2005 Yearly amateur entries in the Kern County Fair- Prizes in mixed media,
watercolor and abstract categories- including one Chairman’s Choice, four 1st prizes, and
even more 2nd, 3rd, and honorable mention awards.
2005 - San Luis Obisbo, CA- 28th Juried Exhibition of Fine Craft Dimensions 05; and also
juried into their members' exhibition; Juried into the Arts Council of Kern County art
show.
2004 - Solo exhibit- one month with Russo’s BookStore- ending with a demonstration of the
Making of a Fabric picture, Bakersfield, CA; exhibited with the Madiera Arts Council:
Visual Art and Music Background - narrative
In 1954, Drina, age 10, won $25 in a newspaper art contest, and also took her first art
workshop at the Albright-Knox Museum of Art, in Buffalo, New York. In her twenties she took
portrait drawing classes from artist, Rhoda Lurie Fried. Then she took a Master's level art
history course in college, but majored in psychology. Before coming to the central valley in
California in the late 1970’s, she sold two of her only three framed art pieces at the time,
abstract art.
She always loved music and tried singing- sometimes professionally- in various venues
(restaurants, choirs, musicals, and solo performances). She wrote some songs and
incorporatied them in her speaking engagements as a psychologist. (For example
accompanying herself on the Omnichord while doing a couple of "gigs" on cruise ships as a
speaker on Stress Management, and also during talks coordinated with her weight control
program, "Think Thin and Win" More recently she wrote, "Time Is Flying Fast", "Cooperate,
Cooperate, Cooperate", and "To Be Content" and hopes to be able to link her fading voice
before too late on THIS vain site of hers (i.e. mine).
In 1994 she became interested in fabric and learning to sew, and was taught (for 14
years) by RoseMary Ross, a Home Economics teacher next door to Drina’s school
psychology office. Within a few years fabric remnants and a very important book Snippits
by Cindy Walters led her to take up art again, in a contemporary way. The Walters book
taught her how to back her fabric with glue and form professional pictures. She developed
her own embellished fabric collage art and started showing her "productions", thereby
sliding into an art career. Later (in 1999) when she joined the group of local Bakersfield
artists, and then painted in a group led by Charlotte White, she won more and more art
amateur categories. In 2006 Drina moved from amateur artist to professional artist by
entering 8 pieces within the professional artist categories, in the county fair. Each piece won
1st, 2nd, or 3rd prize. Categories were Mixed media, Collage, Miniature, County landmarks,
and Watermedia.
As she took art most seriously, taking more art classes, painting with other artists, and
on her own whenever she could find the time. .. she.usually worked in the "dead of night",
and watched the sun come up as she went to bed. Retiring from the morning pressures of
being a school psychologist became foremost as, like any ambitious artist, she needed time
to voluminously read art magazines, art biographies, and how-to draw and paint books;
She attended shows locally and visited art museums and galleries almost everywhere in the
world she's traveled.
Drina moved to Las Vegas in 2008 with her husband. She has an art studio
residence in Henderson, Nevada. As of 2012, her art is in private collections from coast to
coast. Being verbose, and trying not to over embellish who are my patrons.... My work is in
New York, Maryland, Nevada, Georgia, California, and though through 2 unrelated gifts,
even in Texas.
******************************************************************************************************************
Drina's Prior experience in psychology, teaching, and sewing
made her the artist- the following is completed mostly for the
artist to remember the roots that led to her last career in the
arts. See below however if a chronicle is wished.
*2006 - part time Psychologist for the Fairfax and Vineland School Districts, Fairfax
and Arvin, CA.; Grades K-8
2005 part time Psychologist for the Beardsley School District, Oildale, CA. Grades
K- 8
2005 - School Psychologist of the Year, presented by the Kern Association of
School Psychologists
1980 - 2008 - Marriage Family Therapist and Licensed Educational Psychologist in
private practice, Bakersfield, California (Specialize in treating addictions,
depression, anxiety, and managing stress and anger especially through the use of
cognitive behavioral and rational emotive therapy, reality therapy, and clinical
hypnosis).
1980-2005 Full time School Psychologist for the Kern High School District
2005- Lead Psychologist for the Kern High School District
1980 - President of the Kern Association of School Psychologists
1976-1980 -Psychologist for the Bakersfield City School District – Grades K-8
1975-1980 University of the Pacific, Stockton, California- Ed.D. in Counseling
Psychology and Education.
1972-1975 Psychologist for the Webster School District, Grades K- 12; Rochester,
New York.
1971- Counselor and psychometrist in the Office Of Psychoendocrinology-
Children's Hospital, Buffalo, N.Y.
1968-1970 State University of New York at Buffalo, Masters degree in Guidance
1966 - Welfare Social Worker, Buffalo, N.Y.
1963-1966 State Univ. of N. Y. at Buffalo, BA in Psychology-graduated cum laude.
1963 – 1966 Dental Hygienist; work experience part-time Please Click HERE to
read my 6 nightly Steps to Dental Hygient.
1961 – 1963 Dental Hygiene AA, Erie Community College, Buffalo, New York
Non-Art Work Background - narrative
Drina went to colleges in New York on a Regent's Scholarship, wanting to find a
career to support herself. Before coming to the central valley in California in the
late 1970’s, she sold her house in Rochester, New York to attend the University of
the Pacific in Stockton, California; receiving her doctorate in Counseling
Psychology and Education in 1980. Her work history includes being a dental
hygienist, social worker, elementary school teacher, psychometric assessor for
the Office of Psychoendocrinology in Children's Hospital in Buffalo and a school
psychologist in N.Y. and CA; practicing a total of 32 years in three school districts.
Simultaneously she had a private practice for 26 years in individual, Marriage and
Family counseling, and in hypnotherapy. One psychology work for which she
dreams of being remembered is "Offensiveless Defense" with only two rules for
living safely.
She received her doctorate (Ed.D. in EDUCATIONAL AND COUNSELING
PSYCHOLOGY from the University of the Pacific in 1980), and worked in that field
for 32 years .
Club- 13 Fremont St. Las Vegas
juried Salon Show on February 18 - PUAH-.thepopuparthouse.com Reception 6-8 P.M.
Henderson, NV. show continues.
2011- Artwork on display at :
Tinoco's Kitchen- VIP room- in Las Vegas Club- 13 Fremont St. Las Vegas- Aug. 7 until 2012
Solo Show - Gallery at Liberty Point Opens Nov. 14 (Reception - free to public on Nov.. 16,
2011) -Solo artshow- art by drina in the Multigenerational Center -250 S. Green Valley
Pkwy; Henderson, NV 89012- show remains until December 16, 2011
Juried show- Sin City at University of Nevada at Las Vegas -M.Barrick Museum- Spring, 2011
Vegas Art Guild Show- "Turn It Up"- Clark County Library- 1401East Flamingo Rd., Las
Vegas 89119 June 21 - Sept. 11, 2011
2010- August 9, 2010, Presented for the Vegas Art Guild. I explained my "Journey from
psychology to artist". See pictures on my page at: www.facebook.com
Enso Japanese Bar- in Bakersfield- 2010
Juried into Bite at the Museum- Event 9-18-10 Springs Preserve Museum- Las Vegas -
Honorable Mention for "Cactus Apples"
2009- "Red Couch" won "Best of Show" at the 29th annual "Celebrating Life" Charleston
Heights Art Center in Las Vegas. Following this show 7-14-09, Tranquillity #2 -"Red Couch"
showed in the winner's circle at Las Vegas City Hall until September 27, 2009. 3rd prize
at Annual Vegas Art Guild Spring Show; Best of Show at "Celebrating Life" 29th annual
show. Artwork shown at the The Canyon Ranch Spa Artwalk, between the Venetian and
Pallazzo in Las Vegas for the second time, and at the Pfaff Downtown Sewing Center.
Continued to write articles for the Henderson Art Association and Vegas Art Guild. (Articles
Written By Drina Fried )
2008 - March-May- Solo art show at Spotlight Theatre in Bakersfield. Continuing rotating
change-outs in central California, group shows in Henderson and Las Vegas, Nevada.
Juried into a Contemporary Art Center show in Las Vegas; Artwork shown at the The
Canyon Ranch Spa Artwalk, between the Venetian and Pallazzo in Las Vegas, Represented
by the City of the World Gallery in Las Vegas. She also wrote interviewing articles for the
Henderson Art Association and Vegas Art Guild.
2007 - Rotating change-out Exhibits at various Kern County Administration Buildings and
businesses; May, 2007- 3 pieces accepted in the Bakersfield Art Association “extra large”
art pieces show- 5th place for “Mullions Out to Vegas"
2008 to the present - She continues to show in California and Nevada predominantly,
producing embellished fabric art as her specialty. Her work is admired though not yet widely
known.
October, 2006– January, 2007 Art show at Kern Central Credit Union - 2 sculpturers; Drina
as sole hanging artist – 73 pieces of work – Invited by the Arts Council of
Kern. 2006
Exhibition shows at the Bakersfield Philharmonic Orchestra, Art-In-The-Park opening, and
juried into the Contemporary show at the Bakersfield Art Association.
2002 - 2005 Yearly amateur entries in the Kern County Fair- Prizes in mixed media,
watercolor and abstract categories- including one Chairman’s Choice, four 1st prizes, and
even more 2nd, 3rd, and honorable mention awards.
2005 - San Luis Obisbo, CA- 28th Juried Exhibition of Fine Craft Dimensions 05; and also
juried into their members' exhibition; Juried into the Arts Council of Kern County art
show.
2004 - Solo exhibit- one month with Russo’s BookStore- ending with a demonstration of the
Making of a Fabric picture, Bakersfield, CA; exhibited with the Madiera Arts Council:
Visual Art and Music Background - narrative
In 1954, Drina, age 10, won $25 in a newspaper art contest, and also took her first art
workshop at the Albright-Knox Museum of Art, in Buffalo, New York. In her twenties she took
portrait drawing classes from artist, Rhoda Lurie Fried. Then she took a Master's level art
history course in college, but majored in psychology. Before coming to the central valley in
California in the late 1970’s, she sold two of her only three framed art pieces at the time,
abstract art.
She always loved music and tried singing- sometimes professionally- in various venues
(restaurants, choirs, musicals, and solo performances). She wrote some songs and
incorporatied them in her speaking engagements as a psychologist. (For example
accompanying herself on the Omnichord while doing a couple of "gigs" on cruise ships as a
speaker on Stress Management, and also during talks coordinated with her weight control
program, "Think Thin and Win" More recently she wrote, "Time Is Flying Fast", "Cooperate,
Cooperate, Cooperate", and "To Be Content" and hopes to be able to link her fading voice
before too late on THIS vain site of hers (i.e. mine).
In 1994 she became interested in fabric and learning to sew, and was taught (for 14
years) by RoseMary Ross, a Home Economics teacher next door to Drina’s school
psychology office. Within a few years fabric remnants and a very important book Snippits
by Cindy Walters led her to take up art again, in a contemporary way. The Walters book
taught her how to back her fabric with glue and form professional pictures. She developed
her own embellished fabric collage art and started showing her "productions", thereby
sliding into an art career. Later (in 1999) when she joined the group of local Bakersfield
artists, and then painted in a group led by Charlotte White, she won more and more art
amateur categories. In 2006 Drina moved from amateur artist to professional artist by
entering 8 pieces within the professional artist categories, in the county fair. Each piece won
1st, 2nd, or 3rd prize. Categories were Mixed media, Collage, Miniature, County landmarks,
and Watermedia.
As she took art most seriously, taking more art classes, painting with other artists, and
on her own whenever she could find the time. .. she.usually worked in the "dead of night",
and watched the sun come up as she went to bed. Retiring from the morning pressures of
being a school psychologist became foremost as, like any ambitious artist, she needed time
to voluminously read art magazines, art biographies, and how-to draw and paint books;
She attended shows locally and visited art museums and galleries almost everywhere in the
world she's traveled.
Drina moved to Las Vegas in 2008 with her husband. She has an art studio
residence in Henderson, Nevada. As of 2012, her art is in private collections from coast to
coast. Being verbose, and trying not to over embellish who are my patrons.... My work is in
New York, Maryland, Nevada, Georgia, California, and though through 2 unrelated gifts,
even in Texas.
******************************************************************************************************************
Drina's Prior experience in psychology, teaching, and sewing
made her the artist- the following is completed mostly for the
artist to remember the roots that led to her last career in the
arts. See below however if a chronicle is wished.
*2006 - part time Psychologist for the Fairfax and Vineland School Districts, Fairfax
and Arvin, CA.; Grades K-8
2005 part time Psychologist for the Beardsley School District, Oildale, CA. Grades
K- 8
2005 - School Psychologist of the Year, presented by the Kern Association of
School Psychologists
1980 - 2008 - Marriage Family Therapist and Licensed Educational Psychologist in
private practice, Bakersfield, California (Specialize in treating addictions,
depression, anxiety, and managing stress and anger especially through the use of
cognitive behavioral and rational emotive therapy, reality therapy, and clinical
hypnosis).
1980-2005 Full time School Psychologist for the Kern High School District
2005- Lead Psychologist for the Kern High School District
1980 - President of the Kern Association of School Psychologists
1976-1980 -Psychologist for the Bakersfield City School District – Grades K-8
1975-1980 University of the Pacific, Stockton, California- Ed.D. in Counseling
Psychology and Education.
1972-1975 Psychologist for the Webster School District, Grades K- 12; Rochester,
New York.
1971- Counselor and psychometrist in the Office Of Psychoendocrinology-
Children's Hospital, Buffalo, N.Y.
1968-1970 State University of New York at Buffalo, Masters degree in Guidance
- Counseling
1966 - Welfare Social Worker, Buffalo, N.Y.
1963-1966 State Univ. of N. Y. at Buffalo, BA in Psychology-graduated cum laude.
1963 – 1966 Dental Hygienist; work experience part-time Please Click HERE to
read my 6 nightly Steps to Dental Hygient.
1961 – 1963 Dental Hygiene AA, Erie Community College, Buffalo, New York
Non-Art Work Background - narrative
Drina went to colleges in New York on a Regent's Scholarship, wanting to find a
career to support herself. Before coming to the central valley in California in the
late 1970’s, she sold her house in Rochester, New York to attend the University of
the Pacific in Stockton, California; receiving her doctorate in Counseling
Psychology and Education in 1980. Her work history includes being a dental
hygienist, social worker, elementary school teacher, psychometric assessor for
the Office of Psychoendocrinology in Children's Hospital in Buffalo and a school
psychologist in N.Y. and CA; practicing a total of 32 years in three school districts.
Simultaneously she had a private practice for 26 years in individual, Marriage and
Family counseling, and in hypnotherapy. One psychology work for which she
dreams of being remembered is "Offensiveless Defense" with only two rules for
living safely.
She received her doctorate (Ed.D. in EDUCATIONAL AND COUNSELING
PSYCHOLOGY from the University of the Pacific in 1980), and worked in that field
for 32 years .
Drina’s collage process is unique, and involves layering chosen fabrics
backed with heat steamed glue until the underpicture is formed. Then
various embellishments are added to emphasize shading and contrast,
including paint, embroidery, and other media. Often her visions are
cityscapes, colorful interiors, and florals. Watercolors and digital
photographs are sometimes preludes to embellished fabric collage art
pieces. Much of her work is concerned with the process of looking,
perceiving from a digital image, and interpreting into a varied fabric
“canvas”. Steam-A-Seam glue makes each piece as strong and durable as
oil or acrylic on canvas. However, it is shown under glass to stop the
inclination viewers had to run their fingers over the various textures. While
giclees (prints) of the fabric pieces can be purchased for much less, each
original is one of a kind, not duplicatable. Finding each piece of silk, velvet,
suede, even cotton is part of the task, not just opening up a tube of paint and
buying more when you run out.
Born- Buffalo, New York, 1943; Her father ran a jewelry display
manufacturing business until he was 85 years old. Her mother was a self
taught artist and unpublished writer. Drina is the granddaughter of Taylor
Caldwell, an author in the late 1930’s to the early 1980’s of 33 best selling
novels. Drina’s aspirations are to do as well in her chosen field of art.
backed with heat steamed glue until the underpicture is formed. Then
various embellishments are added to emphasize shading and contrast,
including paint, embroidery, and other media. Often her visions are
cityscapes, colorful interiors, and florals. Watercolors and digital
photographs are sometimes preludes to embellished fabric collage art
pieces. Much of her work is concerned with the process of looking,
perceiving from a digital image, and interpreting into a varied fabric
“canvas”. Steam-A-Seam glue makes each piece as strong and durable as
oil or acrylic on canvas. However, it is shown under glass to stop the
inclination viewers had to run their fingers over the various textures. While
giclees (prints) of the fabric pieces can be purchased for much less, each
original is one of a kind, not duplicatable. Finding each piece of silk, velvet,
suede, even cotton is part of the task, not just opening up a tube of paint and
buying more when you run out.
Born- Buffalo, New York, 1943; Her father ran a jewelry display
manufacturing business until he was 85 years old. Her mother was a self
taught artist and unpublished writer. Drina is the granddaughter of Taylor
Caldwell, an author in the late 1930’s to the early 1980’s of 33 best selling
novels. Drina’s aspirations are to do as well in her chosen field of art.
