Tracey Frugoli
| Tracey A. Frugoli Oil Painter in the American Impressionist Tradition |
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Born in 1966 in Chicago, oil painter Tracey Frugoli has always known she would be an artist. Growing up in a creative household, she watched her father sketch and followed his lead. Later, she enjoyed unusually intensive art training in her suburban high school. She went on to earn a BFA from Illinois State University, and a MA in Art Therapy from Southern Illinois University. After 11 years as an art therapist, she turned her passion for painting into a full time endeavor.
Inspired by light and beauty, Frugoli most identifies with the American and French Impressionists. Unapologetically eschewing novelty and shock in favor of authenticity, she views the painting process as a humbling endeavor that seeks to reflect and thereby enhance the most noble of our ideals.
Frugoli has won many awards including First Place in the 2006 “Havre de Grace Plein Air Painting Competition” in Havre de Grace, MD; First Place in the 2005 “Plein Air Easton Quick Draw;” Best Architectural Painting in the 2005 “Plein Air Easton;” and Honorable Mention in the 2007 “Plein Air Easton” in Easton, MD. She has exhibited throughout the country and was accepted into Greenhouse Gallery’s “Salon International” in 2005 and 2006 in San Antonio, TX.
In 2007, two of her paintings were selected for the permanent collection at the Academy Art Museum in Easton, MD. Her work hangs in numerous private collections and appeared in the February 2004 American Artist and May 2005 Plein Air Magazine. Beginning in 2005, she freelanced for the American Artist special quarterly periodical Workshop and is the current Illinois/Midwest Regional Editor for Fine Art Connoisseur.
Pictured below are Tracey Frugoli and her husband Ed.
