Robin Freedenfeld

Robin Freedenfeld studied art at Rochester Institute of Technology, graduating in 1973 with a major focus in Etching and Lithography.

After college, Robin opened three printmaking workshops: the first in Boston, then Chicago, and a third in Northampton, Massachusetts. In Northampton Robin met many artists that influenced her decision to paint. In 1984, following an exhibition of paintings by Robin and a group of friends at the Wistariahurst Museum in Holyoke, Massachusetts, an article appeared in The New England Monthly entitled “Fertile Valley” in which the author coined the phrase “Valley Realists” to describe this group of five painters. Robin has continued to paint in the realist tradition.