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Ficre Ghebreyesus (March 21, 1962 – April 4, 2012) was an Eritrean-American artist who made colorful paintings in a series of styles including representational, abstract, and a surreal combination of the two. His paintings show influences of European and American art as well as the culture and scenery of his native country.
Apr 17, 2020 · Ficre Ghebreyesus, “Solitary Boat in Red and Blue,” circa 2002-07, one of 700 paintings the artist — who was better known as a chef — left when he died. It is in a show of his work...
Ficre Ghebreyesus was a painter, printmaker and humanitarian activist who left Eritrea as a political refugee. He lived in New Haven, Connecticut, where he ran a successful Eritrean restaurant and taught at Yale University.
Oct 27, 2020 · A longtime Yale professor who for the past two years has been the president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the nation’s largest funder of the arts and humanities, Alexander is arguably the single most eminent figure in American philanthropy today. So who was Ficre, and what animated his dreamlike paintings?
Sep 15, 2020 · Why it’s worth a look: Within his New Haven community, Ficre Ghebreyesus was beloved as an adventurous chef and the co-owner of Caffé Adulis, and as a man with deep interests in poetry and music.
Oct 5, 2020 · Before his premature death, in 2012, at the age of fifty, this Eritrean-born painter completed a number of canvases in his New Haven studio that exist somewhere between abstraction and ...
Oct 24, 2020 · Through October 24, Galerie Lelong in New York is presenting “Gate to the Blue,” a striking show of paintings by the late artist Ficre Ghebreyesus that opens a portal to his hugely complex, visually stunning, and tragically short life.
