MARLEY FREEMAN

Marley Freeman (b. 1981, Lynn, Massachusetts) uses oils as well as hand-mixed gesso and acrylic to create meticulous, psychologically charged color fields. Working primarily in the medium of painting, Freeman studies the ways in which the material “wants to perform,” resulting in multisensorial investigations of color and light. Her distinct vocabulary of forms is made up of brushy strokes, color washes, and shapes that freely transform across the picture plane. The influence of the material history of textile production on the artist is evident in her close attention to the textural subtleties of her paints and her reverence for their surface effects. Freeman lives between New York and Massachusetts.

Freeman’s work can be found in the collections of the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island; San Antonio Museum of Art, Texas; University of Colorado Art Museum, Boulder and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.