Fritz Drury

Fritz Drury works from his studio along the Hudson River, focusing on narrative paintings obliquely related to well-known fables and parables. A recent painting is Rumpelstiltskin, a six-foot canvas suggesting an ideal state of human connection with the natural universe and the role of the painter/philosopher in mediating the divide between the self and the world.

Drury was co-author in 2007 of Drawing: Structure and Vision, an introductory textbook created with Joanne Stryker, then dean of RISD’s Experimental and Foundation Studies division. He was the chief critic for RISD’s European Honors Program in Rome in spring 2011. He is a graduate of Stanford University and the Yale School of Art, where he studied painting. In 2005 he was the recipient of RISD’s John R. Frazier Award for Excellence in Teaching.