A Go Fund Me page has been created to help Freddie with the expenses of emergency shelter, clothing, and other essentials of daily life. It may be found here.

Freddie’s work will be shown in the upcoming exhibition:

Uncommon Nature: The Abstractions of Freddie styles

This will be held from April 20, 2025 through July 13, 2025 at the University of Maryland Global Campus at 3501 University Blvd. East, Adelphi, MD 20783-8000.

There will be an artist talk & reception April 27 from 3-5 pm with Halima Taha, PhD.

Styles is an Atlanta-based abstract painter, who credits his rural upbringing as influential on his work. He believes a rural lifestyle creates a deep connection—a sensitivity - between the land and the people owing their existence to it. He graduated from Morris Brown College in Atlanta, and served as artist-in-residence at several institutions, including Clark Atlanta University and Spelman College.

He has exhibited at the High Museum, Atlanta; Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah; City Gallery East, Atlanta; African American Abstraction, American Embassies in Sierra Leone, Trinidad & Tobago and South Africa; Tradition Redefined, The Larry and Brenda Thompson Collection, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA, 2011; and the Tubman Museum, Macon, GA.

In 1997, he was commissioned to create an ad for Absolut Vodka, and in 2001, he was awarded a King Baudouin Foundation Cultural Exchange Program grant to work and study in Belgium.

Styles’ work is included in the following collections: High Museum; Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, Atlanta; MOCA/GA, Atlanta; Spelman College Museum of Art; Clark Atlanta University Collection; Saint Louis Art Museum; Paul R. Jones Collection, University of Delaware; University of Alabama; and Absolut Vodka, Sweden.