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Joanne Freeman"Squares and Strokes (Iris_16)" 2025. gouache on handmade paper, 28 x 20 in.2025
2025
$3,200
£2,416.35
€2,784.57
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Joanne Freeman
Squares and Strokes (Iris_16), 2025
gouache on handmade paper
28 x 20 in.
image: 16 x 16 in.
(freem236)
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 utilized in mid-century media, while also alluding to color field paintings of the1960s. I utilize tape to mask out shapes and create hardedge stencil-like forms. The process acknowledges early screen printing techniques as well as cubism and collage.
My recent multicolored paintings and drawings are made with oil paint stained on linen and with gouache on handmade paper. I create irregular hand drawn shapes that lay flat and abut at the edges. The curves and irregularities of the edges accentuate the space between, reading both as line and structure. Shapes and colors are rendered intuitively, with one choice informing the next, always mindful of the interplay of negative and positive space.
When applying oil paint to linen and gouache to handmade paper, I try to retain and accentuate the inherent properties of both mediums, the weave and tooth of the linen, the variants in the handmade paper and the pure saturated color of the paint. This direct tactile approach celebrates the details in the forms, the beauty of singular color and the power in simplicity.
- Creator:Joanne Freeman (1954, American)
- Creation Year:2025
- Dimensions:Height: 28 in (71.12 cm)Width: 20 in (50.8 cm)
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- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:Seller: freem2361stDibs: LU7116857332
Joanne Freeman
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.
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