Correspondence Club by M. Freddy
Original artworks — drawings of fresh flowers with a personal note on classic Smythson stationery
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[A]n artist unafraid to deal with massive complexities
James Romberger, East Village artist with works in collections such as the Met in New York
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[Y]our drawings are gems. So much to see in each one.
Marguerite Van Cook Ph.D., Musician who opened for The Clash and gallerist who exhibited Sol LeWitt and David Wojnarowicz
“Correspondence Club by M. Freddy” (2025) is an extension of Freddy’s fascination with analog processes and nature in our fast paced world. Each correspondence card on classic stationary features a handwritten letter and fresh flowers from his walks, drawn with archival ballpoint pens.
“My dog Little Freddy loves to stop and smell the flowers. I came to appreciate wild flowers along the way too.”
Sustainable development continues to be a theme throughout his work. As a way of connecting nature to collector’s personal events and milestones,“C.C. by M. Freddy” is a subscription-based artwork where collectors receive a correspondence card each quarter. Freddy developed a particular fondness for letters during his Core Diplomatic Training at the UN. The show-stopping red envelope from Carnegie Hall — Freddy’s invitation to the UN diplomats’ year-end event — remains vivid in his memory. “C.C. by M. Freddy” shares this sense of occasion.
At Parsons, Freddy studied with James Romberger, an East Village artist in the canon alongside Basquiat and Wojnarowicz. He remains a close friend of the Romberger-Van Cook family. The established outlines and signature loop-patterned shading in Freddy’s drawings, reflect the energetic marks characteristic of the East Village with a dash of uptown charisma. As an Upper East Sider who enjoys the serendipity of Central Park and now Hyde Park, he appreciates the medium of correspondence cards — they once brought Basquiat to Warhol after all.
10% of the revenue from this series will fund programs at Visible Mag, including the Contemporary Art Essay Prize, as well as the Art and Culture Fellowship which will follow the MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship no-strings-attached model.
