things that pull

Marley Freeman lets her pigments guide her paintings, moving freely between abstraction and figuration, landscapes and portraits. The artist applies hand-mixed gesso, acrylic, and oil paints with loose brushstrokes and emotionally charged color washes. Lines and shapes are often added in an associative process. Freeman has cited textile design as an influence, traced in her textural approach to applying paint to the canvas. At a 2020 exhibition, the artist installed antique textiles alongside her paintings. Freeman holds a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. She has exhibited widely in solo shows at galleries in New York and group exhibitions at White Columns and Knockdown Center. In 2020, Freeman’s oil-and-acrylic-on-linen painting Venuses Balcony (2020) was installed in Brooklyn as part of Public Art Fund’s “50 Artists: Art on the Grid.”

Boston, MA, USA