Pia Fries is internationally acclaimed as an undaunted and intrepid painter whose exuberant abstract paintings are characterized by audacious color, lush pigment, and a vigorous sense of movement.
Crutchfield, Margo; Archer, Clover; Kistler, Ashley (Virginia Tech. Moss Arts Center, 2015-07-09)
Paintings of abstracted, traced, unfolded packaging cartons as a metaphor for consumption, accumulation, and mindless waste, as well stylized silhouettes of treetops, smokestacks, hands, and other iconic images add layers of subtle but significant socio- economic subtexts to the work.