Solitaire- Cerulean 40
- Squares and Strokes 28
- Squares and Strokes 40
- Squares and Strokes 40A
- Pygmalion
- Double Time
- Framed
- Free Style
- Installation view of "Pygmalion"
- Viridian 38
- Squares and Strokes B
- Squares and Strokes C
- Squares and Strokes D
- Flash 1
- Flash 2
- Flash 3
- Multi X 7
- Space 17 (Summer 1)
- Cerulean
- Cobalt-Ultramarine
- Covers 3 Red
- Covers 2 Ultramarine
Abstract painter Joanne Freeman's paintings are grounded in architecture, design, popular culture and art history. Her reductive compositions and pure color recall the low-tech graphics utilized in mid-century media and allude to the color field painters of the same period. Freeman's work utilizes tape to mask out shapes and create hard edge stencil-like forms. Freeman’s multicolored paintings and drawings are made with saturated color stained onto linen and with gouache applied to handmade paper. The simplicity of Freeman's colors and shapes demonstrate an intuitive understanding of the two-dimensional nature of painting and a keen awareness of the interplay of negative and positive space.
Joanne Freeman received a BS in Fine Arts from the University of Wisconsin and a MA in Studio Art from New York University. She serves as the Vice President of American Abstract Artists, founded in 1936 and based in New York City. She is the 2024 recipient of the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Painting, and the 2021 recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. She has been a visiting artist at New York University, The New School for Social Research, The New York Studio School, Massachusetts College of Art, Chautauqua School of Art, The Marie Sharpe Foundation and the Rome Art Program. Freeman lives and works in New York City.
Joanne Freeman
These Days25 January - 29 February 2024Abstract painter Joanne Freeman does not rely on direct observation but rather process and precedence. The title These Days , borrowed from the song written by Jackson Browne in the...Read moreDeck the Walls
Group Exhibition11 December 2023 - 24 January 2024Each December/January Gilman Contemporary celebrates the diversity of the artists they bring to Sun Valley with their group exhibition, Deck the Walls . This dynamic group show teases upcoming feature...Read morePulp Reality
Exploring Paper as a Medium28 February - 11 April 2023A group show with works by Jill Lear, Peter Clark, Jeri Eisenberg, and Joanne Freeman. Paper is a distinctive medium in these artist's practice, from collage to encaustic coated photographs...Read moreNew Voices
Thai Mainhard, Carmen Mcnall, Hannah Parret, Brianna Gluszak, Kelly Ording, Joanne Freeman24 June - 25 July 2022Come celebrate 15 years with Gilman Contemporary as we highlight emerging and mid-career female artists!Read moreJoanne Freeman
Color as Form1 February - 17 March 2021New York based painter Joanne Freeman’s works on paper and oil paintings are vibrant and filled with an innate sense of space and form. Freeman's abstractions are reductive and recall...Read more
