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Buddy Folk Biographical Information Buddy Folk grew up in Greenville, SC, and majored in business administration at Furman University where he was inspired by mentor Charles Blackwood to make a career of his interest in art. Primarily because Blackwood told Folk his work was good, he decided to attend art school after Furman. He applied to and was accepted at both Cooper Union and Pratt Institute but opted for commercial design at Pratt. After graduation in 1956, he worked as an industrial designer for companies such as Univac Corporation and IBM, first as an employee and later on a freelance basis, while maintaining a private studio on Shelter Island for personal artistic expression. Eventually Folk moved to Los Angeles where he ran an art gallery and would have headed back to New York in 1972 but his father, still in Greenville, became seriously ill. Folk decided to return to Greenville to be near his father, setting up a studio where he did silkscreen prints and painted. He has concentrated solely on painting since his return to Greenville, developing and using techniques that have influenced many of the artists working in the area. Process: Buddy Folk listened to music while he painted, which sometimes influenced his art. He said the reason he likes abstract art so much is because “…it relates more to music. There is nothing more abstract than music.” “You can’t make up new forms,” he says. “All forms are based on things that already exist, that we have already seen. I’m just giving them new meaning, seeing them from a different viewpoint. Even though my paintings are abstract, they’re still definite images, entities. They’re real, not surreal - they’re just abstract. They are suggestions of forms.” Click on the paintings to see larger views
All of Buddy Folk's works are on full-sheet size Arches Cold-Press: 22" x 30" / 140 lb watercolor paper (unframed).
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After his father’s death Folk decided to stay in Greenville and still lives there today. 
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