Launching Correspondence Club by M. Freddy — Letters from a New Yorker in London
Fond observations of nature, joy, and personal correspondence in a fast paced world
M. Freddy’s path to the arts has been thrilling and full of surprises. During his undergraduate studies at the Parsons School of Design in New York, he photographed fashion week, and made a career in user experience. He then pivoted towards the field of sustainable development. With further studies at Johns Hopkins and the University of Oxford, he has since become a Fellow as well as an Expert at the United Nations. After a whirlwind book tour from MIT to board networks for 5 Ideas from Global Diplomacy (2024), he moved to London where the warm creative community drew him back to the arts. His walks with Little Freddy, his Airedale Terrier puppy inspired his series of non-toxic chalk pastel artworks “Urban Wildlife” (2025) and “The Instant Film Project” (2025).
“Correspondence Club by M. Freddy” (2025) is an extension of his 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.