ABOUT ROBERTA FRIEDMAN
From an early age, Roberta studied art history and painting at the studio of Sebastiano Mineo in New York City. In 1962, at Douglass College, Rutgers University, she continued her art studies in the studio art department that had been chaired and influenced by Roy Lichtenstein, and continued to study at several studios in Philadelphia and Boston, before moving to New Haven in 1970.
Roberta has participated in painting workshops at Omega Institute, with Judith Cornell’s Mandala workshops, with watercolorist Jan Hart at Ghost Ranch in Abique, New Mexico , and with many well regarded local teachers, especially Hilda Levy. Roberta has exhibited her work in the greater New Haven area, with pieces in the permanent collection of Yale New Haven Hospital, and many private collections. She has continued to study and share her knowledge of water media and collage techniques with children, teens, and adults in the greater New Haven area, and taught workshops creating Journey Books at Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven.
Exhibitions and Collections
Roberta’s work has been shown throughout the New Haven area for more than 40 years:
2025 - Lifeline/Lifetime, City Gallery solo exhibition
2025 - Apis Opus, NKollectiv, juried encaustic invitational, Denver, CO
2024 - Praxis, City Gallery, small group show
2024 - Wax Stories 3, Niza Knoll Gallery, juried encaustic show, Denver
2023 - Wax, City Gallery, color exhibition
2022 - Incarnations, City Gallery, small group show
2020 - Breathe: 2020, City Gallery, solo exhibition
2018 - The Art of Encaustic, Cheshire Academy, invitational
2018 - Cuba Adrift, City Gallery, with Hank Paper and Susan Millen
2017 - Wax Stories 2, Niza Knoll Gallery, juried encaustic invitational, Denver
2016 - Four Play, City Gallery small group show
2014 - Break In/Out/Through, City Gallery solo exhibition
2013 - Invitational show, The Gallery at JCC, Allentown, PA
2012 - Bruce S. Kershner Gallery, Fairfield, CT, juried prize winner show
2012 - Elemental, City Gallery with Roslyn Meyer
2011 - Connecticut Watercolor Society, juried exhibition, prize winner, John Slade Ely House, New Haven
2011 - Dialogue in Color, Bruce S. Kershner Gallery, Fairfield, CT, juried exhibition