about

Sue Friesz grew up in a semi-rural community in Missouri… a perfect small town surrounded by woods, fields, and farms. As a family they camped, canoed, and explored. Friesz became interested in drawing and, in time, painting as she later entered undergraduate school.

Now married, she began traveling and living in different areas of the world, always including her art equipment and materials as she recorded what she saw. In Asuncion, Paraguay she chose to concentrate on architecture making paintings of massive doors and storefronts in the oldest section of the city while avoiding the possibility of tarantulas in the fields and forests. In Curitiba, Brazil Friesz began a panorama from the roof of the Hotel Petras, where they lived while looking for more permanent living quarters. The panorama grew to thirteen panels when completed. While in Egypt she created sixteen graphite drawings based on the villages along the Nile from Aswan to Cairo. Her last addresses before returning to Kansas City, Missouri included Portland and Newport, Oregon. From that point the environment has been her focus as Friesz now maintains a working studio in Kansas City.