“Looking at Frey’s paintings reminds me of another sage observation, this one by the composer Robert Schumann: ‘The artist’s vocation is to send light into the human heart.’ Which might make it interesting for us to place our attention on our hearts when we encounter a Frey work, just to see what might be stirring there.”
— Jorge S. Arango

“This new body of work is inspired by my love of the natural landscape and is a visual exploration of the spaces we inhabit, inside and outside, and the relation between the two. Last summer, I spent a week painting on Great Spruce Head, off the coast of Deer Isle, with eleven other painters. We lived and created in Fairfield Porter’s great house and soaked in the beautiful and creative legacy that this and many other Maine islands inspire.”
—Philip Frey