Through the medium of drawing, artist Renata Fryshara desires to evoke primal feelings of hope, fear, and joy, as well as the belief that our dreams are not wasted hours. — Barrington Center for the Arts

Renata Fryshara has a lot to say. About the timeline of life, personal experience, the world. At the core of her work is humanity in the collective and human beings in the singular. Threaded throughout her work are dichotomies—capsules of time past and time present; the cosmic and the minute; the exterior and the interior; the quiet and the fierce; kindness and cruelty. Her drawings give equal thought to the vast—the ocean, the moon, mountains, the mass of granite, the girth of trees, unbounded dreams—as they do to the contained—the tininess of life-generating seeds, the labyrinth, a thread. She has a wide, encompassing lens. Most often her chosen medium is graphite, either drawn dense and satiny across sheets of paper or rendered tenderly in delicate lines and simple marks which fill big spaces or are restricted to a small viewpoint. She is also a bold painter, using canvas or masonite or wood panel. Materiality matters. Exploration of surface matters. Experimenting with pencil, charcoal, pastel, thread, oil sticks and paint matters. Heavy lines, delicate lines, incised lines, stitched lines. Whether to cover an entire surface or to leave large areas of negative space. All of that matters. All of that is important. Fryshara considers all.

Look closely at her work. There is a range of emotion—curiosity, contentment, uncertainty, sadness, independence, loneliness, joy, loss. The universal psyche and the private perception.     — Jane Deering