Friedel Dzubas, originally from Germany, pursued art education in his homeland before fleeing Nazi Germany in 1939 and relocating to New York City. In the early 1950s, while in Manhattan, he shared a studio with abstract painter Helen Frankenthaler. It was during this period that he commenced displaying his Abstract Expressionist artworks.
His pieces were featured in the Ninth Street Show in New York City in 1951, as well as in group exhibitions at renowned galleries such as the Leo Castelli Gallery, the Stable Gallery, and the Tibor de Nagy Gallery, among others. Following the Ninth Street Show, annual invitational exhibitions took place at the Stable Gallery throughout the 1950s. The poster for the second New York Painting and Sculpture Annual at The Stable Gallery in 1953 included an introduction by Clement Greenberg.
In the 1960s, Dzubas became affiliated with Color Field painting and Lyrical Abstraction. His participation in the 1964 exhibition "Post-painterly Abstraction," curated by Clement Greenberg, solidified this association. Dzubas maintained a friendship with Clement Greenberg, who introduced him to Jackson Pollock and other artists.
As his career progressed, his expansive works, some reaching up to 24 feet wide, adopted a more fluid quality. Over the last three decades of his career, Dzubas held over sixty solo exhibitions worldwide. He was represented by the André Emmerich Gallery and Knoedler Contemporary Arts in New York for more than thirty years. His artworks were showcased in various galleries, including the Anita Shapolsky Gallery and the Jacobson Howard Gallery in New York City. In 1976, he settled in Massachusetts but continued to paint and maintain ties with New York City, where his paintings received regular exhibition exposure.
Dzubas' works are included in the collections of prestigious institutions such as The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Art Institute of Chicago, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), National Gallery of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.