Isabel’s first love was visual arts. She pursued Fine Arts studies at York University, later gaining a degree in Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy at the University of Toronto where she currently holds as a status lecturer position and consults and facilitates the “Art of Keeping Well,” a health promotion intergrating the arts program supported by a Graduate Student Wellness Grant. For most of her career she developed and provided accessible and restorative community art programming for adults living with mental health and addition issues, as founder of the Creative Works Studio. It is only in the last couple of years after leaving the program she has returned back to her visual arts practice as well as training others by providing educational online resources in art-based wellness.
Isabel has developed her practice of plein airpainting in her many travels to inspirational locations including the Eastern Townships of Quebec, Maine and New York. In 2018, she completed two art residencies: Gilbraltor Point Artscape, on Toronto Island and in Borgo a Moazzano, Italy. She has participated in juried and group shows since: Why the @#$% You Paint Show at the Gladstone Hotel, Nuit Blanche at Spadina House, AGO online portraits of Resilience and the Chirstie Pits Artist show. Fryszberg’s work is characterized by a strong appreciation for nature, colour, and landscape. She turns to the botanical, or to vistas of water and sky to bring moments of solace and joy during times of uncertainty. She takes a lyrical and playful approach, dancing between the seen and unseen, realism and abstraction, colour and light. She draws from the post impressionists, Twentieth to Twenty-First century artists, music, and everyday life. Her work has been sold to private collectors.
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EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS
Dec 7, 2021- The Christie Pits Artists Show, 1081 Bathurst, Toronto
May 20, 2021- The Art of Resilience, The Ontario Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
November 8, 2018 - Why the @#&! do you Paint?, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, Curated by Spencer J Harrison and Lukus Toane
September 29, 2018 - One Path - W-O-M-A-N, Nuit Blanche, Toronto, Spadina Museum
August 2018 - Residency in Borgo a Moazzano, Italy
Why the @#&! do you Paint?, Opening Night Gladstone Hotel, Toronto