Joanne Freeman
American, b. 1954
Freeman attended the University of Wisconsin, where she earned a B.S. in Fine Arts in 1976. She earned her M.A. in Studio Art from New York University in 1981. She has taught painting and drawing at NYU and The New School for Social Research and worked as a visiting artist and lecturer at The New York Studio School and the Massachusetts College of Art. Freeman is heavily influenced by the ideas of the Bauhaus School, which emphasized combining the ideas and techniques of art, architecture and design. She endeavors to present new forms in a simple way. Freeman has exhibited her amazing paintings extensively in galleries and museums, in solo and group exhibitions, throughout the US and internationally. The artist's solo show entitled Recent Paintings and Drawings was on display at Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, NY, in February 2016. Her art has been reviewed in ARTnews and The New York Observer. The American artist paints with gouache on Khadi, a handmade Indian paper fashioned from long fibered cotton. Her oeuvre is exemplified by vivid colors, geometric shapes, hard edge lines, and curved, gestural marks painted against white backgrounds. Freeman presents a reductive visual language that references urban symbols and signs, architectural patterns, and the interplay between shadow and light.
Freeman's process involves taping off areas to create hard edges, and combining those areas of control with spontaneous mark making. The scale of her works and the marks she creates are both dictated by the extent of her physical reach. The resulting images express physicality, emotion, limitation and randomness, combined with a precise, minimalist aesthetic.| Styles |
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Joanne Freeman "Squares and Strokes_8" Gouache on Handmade Paper
By Joanne Freeman
Located in New York, NY
My paintings and drawings incorporate elements found in architecture, design, popular culture and art history. My reductive compositions and pure color mimic the low-tech graphics ut...
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2010s Abstract Joanne Freeman
Materials
Gouache, Handmade Paper
Joanne Freeman "Squares and Strokes 10" Gouache on Handmade Paper
By Joanne Freeman
Located in New York, NY
My paintings and drawings incorporate elements found in architecture, design, popular culture and art history. My reductive compositions and pure color mimic the low-tech graphics ut...
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2010s Abstract Joanne Freeman
Materials
Gouache, Handmade Paper
Joanne Freeman "Squares and Strokes 5" Gouache on Handmade Paper
By Joanne Freeman
Located in New York, NY
My paintings and drawings incorporate elements found in architecture, design, popular culture and art history. My reductive compositions and pure color mimic the low-tech graphics ut...
Category
2010s Abstract Joanne Freeman
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Gouache, Handmade Paper
Joanne Freeman "Squares and Strokes 40 (multi)" Oil on Linen
By Joanne Freeman
Located in New York, NY
My paintings and drawings incorporate elements found in architecture, design, popular culture and art history. My reductive compositions and pure color mimic the low-tech graphics ut...
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2010s Abstract Joanne Freeman
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Linen, Oil
Joanne Freeman "These Days" Oil on Linen
By Joanne Freeman
Located in New York, NY
My paintings and drawings incorporate elements found in architecture, design, popular culture and art history. My reductive compositions and pure color mimic the low-tech graphics ut...
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2010s Abstract Joanne Freeman
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Linen, Oil
Joanne Freeman "Squares and Strokes 40 (red)" Oil on Linen
By Joanne Freeman
Located in New York, NY
My paintings and drawings incorporate elements found in architecture, design, popular culture and art history. My reductive compositions and pure color mimic the low-tech graphics ut...
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2010s Abstract Joanne Freeman
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Linen, Oil
Joanne Freeman Original Encaustic, Titled "Moon & Sun"
By Joanne Freeman
Located in Larchmont, NY
Joanne Freeman (American, b. 1954)
Moon & Sun, 1990
Oil and wax on wood
Overall dimensions: 31 x 44 x 3 1/4 in.
Square dimensions: 24 x 24 in. each
Signed, dated and inscribed verso
Bess Cutler...
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1990s Contemporary Joanne Freeman
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Wood, Wax, Oil
Covers 3 Cobalt (Abstract print)
By Joanne Freeman
Located in London, GB
Covers 3 Cobalt (Abstract print)
Aquatint made with oil based Charbonnel Etching Ink, printed on 100% rag paper Copperplate Warm White. - Unframed.
"Edition 3 of 20.
This piece is part of a series titled ""Covers"", it pays homage to the graphic style of album covers, paperback book covers and media that permeated mid-century popular culture.
Her use of singular color accentuates the interplay of ground, foreground relationships.
Freeman tries to merge random gestures and idiosyncratic shapes with a controlled and reductive abstract language.
Aquatint is an intaglio printmaking technique, a variant of etching, using copper...
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2010s Abstract Joanne Freeman
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Paper, Aquatint
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