Joanne Freeman

Abstract artist Joanne Freeman's paintings are grounded in architecture, design, popular culture and art history. Her reductive compositions and pure color recall low-tech graphics and color field paintings of the mid-century, while also acknowledging cubism and collage. Freeman employs a meticulous process to create hard-edge forms, with saturated color stained onto linen and gouche applied to handmade paper. The simplicity of Freeman's compositions 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's artwork has been featured in solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally and she is represented by galleries in the United States, Morocco, and Switzerland. She serves as the Vice President of American Abstract Artists in New York. She is the 2024 recipient of the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Painting, and the 2021 recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant.