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Joanne Freeman

1954
United States

25 Works exhibited on Kooness

Current location

New York City

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Works by Joanne Freeman

Space_17 (Summer 15)

2017

Paintings , Oil

46 x 46cm

3941,00 €

Space_17 (Summer 10)

2017

Paintings , Oil

46 x 46cm

3941,00 €

Covers 13 Green

2014

Paintings

33 x 33cm

1613,00 €

Covers 13 Red 2

2014

Paintings

33 x 33cm

1613,00 €

Covers 13 - orange

2014

Paintings

33 x 33cm

1613,00 €

Covers 13-Black B

2014

Paintings

33 x 33cm

1613,00 €

Covers 13-Purple

2014

Paintings

33 x 33cm

1613,00 €

Covers 13 Red Orange

2014

Paintings

33 x 33cm

1613,00 €

Covers 24 Blue D Summer

2016

Drawings

61 x 61cm

2747,00 €

Joanne Freeman is an American abstract painter who creates minimalist reductive paintings and works on paper, featuring hard edged abstract forms and bold, vivid, gestural markings. She lives and works in New York City.   Education 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. Technique 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. Inspiration 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. The artist also influenced by Mid-Century modern graphic design aesthetics. The hard edge look of many of her images references well-defined shadows created by sunlight on buildings. She's an admirer of the work of reductive artists such as Ellsworth Kelly, Paul Feeley, and Kenneth Noland. Collections Her striking pieces are included in numerous corporate collections, including those of The Prudential, Readers Digest, and the University of Maine Museum of Art, and private collections including those of Gail Stavitsky, the Curator of Collections and Exhibitions for the Montclair Art Museum, and Andy Summers, guitarist for the band The Police. Exhibitions 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.  
Solo Exhibitions   2018   Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, My Generation, NY. NY. 2016 Kathryn Markel Fine Arts , NY. NY. 2015 490 Gallery, Brooklyn NY. 2013 University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor M e. 2012 Gallery Ehva, Provincetown, Mass 2008 Lohin Geduld Gallery NY. NY. 2005 Lohin Geduld Gallery NY. NY. 2005 Au 9 Galerie D'art, Casablanca, Morocco 2004 Repetition & Change , Joanne Freeman, Gerri Rachins, Brant Gallery, Mass.College of Art , Boston , Mass. 1992 Bess Cutler Gallery, Santa Monica, California. 1991 Bess Cutler Gallery, NY. NY. 1990 Marc Jancou Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland 1989 Bess Cutler Gallery, NY. NY. 1988 The Queens Museum, Flushing, NY. 1986 Hudson Gallery, NY. NY. 1984 White Columns, NY. NY. 1981 Just Above Midtown/Downtown, NY. NY. Group Exhibitions 2018  Art on Paper, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, Pier 36, NY. NY. 2017  International Fine Print Dealers Association, NY. NY. The 34th Annual Fine Print Fair, Cleveland, Ohio (juror's choice award) Just Under 100, New Prints Summer 2017 International Print Center, NY.         2016   Art on Paper, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, Pier 36, NY. NY. Color, Shape and Form III , Gallery Gris, Hudson , NY 50 Shades of Red, Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts , Amherst , Mass. 2015 Formal Aspects, Visual Dialogue in Structure , Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis , Mass. A few Conversations About Color, dm c ontemporary NYC , NY. Paperazzi, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery , Brooklyn, NY. Sideshow Nation, Sideshow Gallery , Brooklyn, NY. 2014 Familiar LIne , Key Projects, Queens , NY. Color, Shape and Form, Galerie Gris, Hudson NY. 2013 Wit, The Painting Center, NY. NY. Curator: Joanne Freeman 2012 Maine, Bogart Salon, Bushwick, NY. Instructors Show , The School House Gallery, Provincetown, Mass. Paperazzi , Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn NY 2011 Paper , Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. 2010 Color - Time - Space, Rosenberg Gallery, Ca lkins Hall, Hofstra University, Hempstead NY. Curators: Joanne Freeman and Kim Uchiyama 2009 Color - Time - Space , Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn NY. Curators: Joanne Freeman, Kim Uchiyama Color - Time - Space , Lohin Geduld Gallery, NY. NY. Curators: Joanne Freeman, Kim Uchiyama 2009 Drawing Atlas, Pennsylvania College of Art and Design, Lancaster, PA . 2008 Drawing Atlas , Lohin Geduld Gallery, NY. NY. Masur Museum of Art, Munro La. Selections, Lohin Geduld Gallery NY. NY. 2007 Summer Group Show, Lohin Geduld Gallery, NY. NY. 2006 Neo Plastic Redux, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, NY. NY. Contemporary Art Month, San Antonio TX. Jack the Pelican, Brooklyn NY. 2005 Mod , Broadway Gallery, NY. NY. Made in the USA, Pickled Art Gallery, Beijing , China 2001 History Lessons, Aramona Studio, NY. NY. 2000 One on One , Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Mass. 1992 Persistence of Painting, Varieties of Vision , Kohn Pederson, Fox Gallery, NY. NY. 1990 Auction for Action Act Up New York , Paula Cooper Gallery, NY. NY. Benefit Auction , The New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY. NY. 1989 Gallery Artists, Bess Cutler Gallery, NY. NY. American Pie, Bess Cutler Gallery, NY. NY. Seibu Department Store, Tokyo, Japan (catalogue) 1988 Gold Show , Minor Injury, Brooklyn, NY. 1986 Hudson Gallery, NY. NY 1985 Nite Show , Public Image Gallery, NY. Shifting Views ,B.A.C.A. Downtown, Brooklyn, NY. Update 84 - 85 , White Columns, NY. NY. 1984 Art Against Apartheid , ABC No Rio, NY. NY. Four Artists, Soho Center for the Visual Arts, NY NY. 1983 Christminster Fine Art, NY. NY. 1982 Hot, Gracie Mansion Gallery, NY. NY.