Interview with Roy Fridge, conducted by Sarah C. Reynolds
Houston ties
I had been coming back and forth to Houston for years, because of my friendship with Jim Love. He came to Houston in 1953 or 1954, and started showing at the New Arts Gallery
The New Arts Gallery was founded in Houston in 1956, and closed in 1974.
in ’57. I would come down and see some of his shows, so there was a lot of back and forth. When I moved to Houston in 1966, Jim had the front part of this little building he rented on Truxillo, and he let me rent two rooms from him.
In 1966 the Dallas Museum of Contemporary Arts
The short-lived Dallas Museum of Contemporary Arts developed an audience for modern art in Texas and set trends nationally. It was opened in 1957; Douglas MacAgy became its director in 1959. Under MacAgy, the museum organized a number of innovative exhibitions that attracted national attention, but it was merged with the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts in 1963.
no longer existed, so the exciting things happening were here in Houston at the Contemporary Arts Museum that Jerry MacAgy ran—and Jim of course was very important to her for installations and support.
What was exciting was the fact that the galleries like New Arts were showing contemporary Texas artists—so all that added together made it interesting to me to come to Houston, once I decided not to be a hermit on the beach.
As soon as I got here in 1966, Dianne David had David Gallery.
Dianne David founded and operated David Gallery in Houston from 1963 to 1983. She showed various artists, including Jack Boynton, Bob Camblin, Roy Fridge, Jim Love, David McManaway, among others.
She had seen some of my things and invited me to put a show together there in September or October of ’66. Some of the pieces were earlier works; most of them had movement of some kind. I called them “wooden machines” for lack of better terminology. The main piece was called “Singer,” which was based on an old Singer sewing machine that I had built a top on, and by pumping the pedal, you made things move and also play the keyboard things. Every time you’d play it, things began flying off of it—so it was destined to destroy itself to some extent. It survives in a sort of tall totem piece which I call Memorial Singer.
Big man machine
1968. Courtesy of Roy Fridge.
Mixed media
I was in Houston until August of 1969. Besides making sculpture during that period of time, I had two shows at David Gallery. And for two semesters in 1967-68 I was invited by John O’Neill
John O’Neill became chairman of the Rice University Department of Fine Arts in 1965.
to be what they called a guest lecturer at Rice University. Every Friday I would work with both Bob Camblin’s drawing class and Earl Staley’s drawing class. I made a film while I was there just to show students the way to do animation. It was great fun. Also at that time, the Rice Media Center
The Rice University Media Center was founded in 1969 by John and Dominique de Menil with scholar Gerald O’Grady as a consultant. The de Menils’ vision for the center was to use film, photography and art as education tools in research and teaching.
was starting up and Gerald O’Grady invited several visiting lecturers to come in who were pretty well known. In those days they called it “independent filmmaking” and it was basically short, experimental art films, of which I made some. I did one of Claes Oldenburg’s
Claes Oldenburg, b. 1929. A Swedish-born American pop sculptor.
images, rearranging them into my own storyline and putting my own soundtrack to it. There was another film I made about David McManaway. But I made my first film in 1949 while I was still a student at Baylor University. I learned everything I could about making film, and invented my own style of animation. I started this film studio in Dallas in 1951, and did animated television commercials on film—did that for ten years.
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differentiate between demand and supply
giving examples
In economics, a perfect market refers to a theoretical construct where all participants have perfect information, goods are homogenous, there are no barriers to entry or exit, and prices are determined solely by supply and demand. It's an idealized model used for analysis,
When MP₁ becomes negative, TP start to decline.
Extuples Suppose that the short-run production function of certain cut-flower firm is given by: Q=4KL-0.6K2 - 0.112 •
Where is quantity of cut flower produced, I is labour input and K is fixed capital input (K-5). Determine the average product of lab
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Extuples Suppose that the short-run production function of certain cut-flower firm is given by: Q=4KL-0.6K2 - 0.112 •
Where is quantity of cut flower produced, I is labour input and K is fixed capital input (K-5). Determine the average product of labour (APL) and marginal product of labour (MPL)
Quantity demanded refers to the specific amount of a good or service that consumers are willing and able to purchase at a give price and within a specific time period. Demand, on the other hand, is a broader concept that encompasses the entire relationship between price and quantity demanded
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how do you save a country economic situation when it's falling apart
Economic growth as an increase in the production and consumption of goods and services within an economy.but
Economic development as a broader concept that encompasses not only economic growth but also social & human well being.
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production function means
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What do you think is more important to focus on when considering inequality ?
sir...I just want to ask one question... Define the term contract curve? if you are free please help me to find this answer 🙏
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it is a curve that we get after connecting the pareto optimal combinations of two consumers after their mutually beneficial trade offs
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In economics, the contract curve refers to the set of points in an Edgeworth box diagram where both parties involved in a trade cannot be made better off without making one of them worse off. It represents the Pareto efficient allocations of goods between two individuals or entities, where neither p
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In economics, the contract curve refers to the set of points in an Edgeworth box diagram where both parties involved in a trade cannot be made better off without making one of them worse off. It represents the Pareto efficient allocations of goods between two individuals or entities,
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Suppose a consumer consuming two commodities X and Y has
The following utility function u=X0.4 Y0.6. If the price of the X and Y are 2 and 3 respectively and income Constraint is birr 50.
A,Calculate quantities of x and y which maximize utility.
B,Calculate value of Lagrange multiplier.
C,Calculate quantities of X and Y consumed with a given price.
D,alculate optimum level of output .
the market for lemon has 10 potential consumers, each having an individual demand curve p=101-10Qi, where p is price in dollar's per cup and Qi is the number of cups demanded per week by the i th consumer.Find the market demand curve using algebra. Draw an individual demand curve and the market dema
suppose the production function is given by ( L, K)=L¼K¾.assuming capital is fixed find APL and MPL. consider the following short run production function:Q=6L²-0.4L³ a) find the value of L that maximizes output b)find the value of L that maximizes marginal product
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