MARCIA FREEDMAN ARTIST STATEMENT
My paintings are brought to life by critical observation, personal experience, memory and reactions to events.
They become a metaphor for personal emotions and external perceptions, but on a broader level integrate the personal with wider questions, political and social.
Using organic forms found in the figure as a source, the work is informed by nature, science and the potential for investigating new ideas to describe the fluidity of life and bodily changes that occur due to the effects of genetics or the environment, causing decay and death.
Images of organs, body parts, cellular forms, pods and rocks evolve into abstract images commenting on complex associations, perceptions and emotion.
In constructing the abstractions, I fracture, deconstruct and recontextualize the forms, using the painting process, without losing the specificity of the emotional metaphor.
The resultant images are mostly abstract, but in fact, based on the constant inquiry into the reality of life experience.
MARCIA FREEDMAN
1907 Raymond Place, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan 48302
248-851-7995(h) 248-752-1657(c) www.marciafreedman.com marstanf@gmail.com
B.S. MFA Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 Ohio State University Pearl Conard Gallery, Mansfield, Ohio, Inside, Outside
2010 Western Illinois University, Macomb, Illinois, Inside, Outside, Paintings by Marcia Freedman
2002 Cary Gallery, Rochester, Michigan, A Line Of Color
1999 Cary Gallery, Rochester, Michigan, Marcia Freedman, New Work
1996 Start Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan, Marcia Freedman, Recent Work
1994 Macomb Community College, Mt. Clemens, Michigan, Marcia Freedman-Recent Work
Paint Creek Center for the Arts, Rochester Michigan, An Installation
1993 University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, Marcia Freedman-Drawings
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012 St Louis University Museum, St Louis, Missouri, Womens Caucus XVI
Elaine Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan MCAA Exhibition
Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, Michigan, BIG SHOW
Birmingham, Bloomfield Art Center, Birmingham, Michigan, Roots
Birmingham, Bloomfield Art Center, Birmingham, Michigan, Michigan Fine Arts
Whitdell Gallery, Detroit, Michigan, Members Exhibition
2011 Wayne State University, Community Arts Gallery, Detroit, Michigan, Looking Into The
Pioneer Building
Whitdell Gallery, Detroit, Michigan, Actual Size
2010-Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio, 74th National Midyear
NAP, Kutztown, Pennsylvania, Invitational Salon, Exhibition of Small Works
Re:View Gallery, Detroit, Michigan, Re:Collect, 2010
Scarab Club, Detroit, Michigan, Robert Wilbert, Artist, Teacher, Friend
2008-Linda Ross Contemporary Art + Projects, From Childers Street to E. Grand Blvd, Paintings and Drawings by Marcia Freedman and Fraser Taylor
2007 Detroit Receiving Hospital Art Collection, Detroit, Michigan
2006 Dennos Museum Center, Northern Michigan College, Traverse City, Michigan
Karen Lynne Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida
2004 Dennos Museum Center, New Acquisitions
College for Creative Studies Detroit, Michigan, Foundation Faculty Show
2003 Elaine Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, 2003 Regional Drawing
A.I.R. Gallery New York, New York, Wish You Here
2002 Museum of New Art, Detroit, Michigan, Documenta USA
1999 Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown Ohio, 63rd Annual Midyear
1996 Stedman Art Gallery, Rutgers campus, Camden New Jersey, Rutgers National ’96 Works on Paper
ARC Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, Arc National Drawing Show
1995 Midland Center for the Arrts, Midland, Michigan, Great Lakes Regional Art
1994 Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Mich. Image and Idea: Educators on View
Gwenda Jay Gallery, Chicago Illinois, Change Is In The Air
1993 Bradley University, Heuser Art Center, Peoria Illinois, 24th Bradley National Print and Drawing
San Jaciento College South, Houston, Texas, Works on Paper
Krasl Art Center St. Joseph, Michigan, All Michigan/All Media
1992 South Bend Regional Art Museum, South Bend, Indiana, Her Art Works
Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, MFA Thesis Exhibition
SELECTED REVIEWS AND PUBLICATIONS
kristen T. Woodward, Artists2artists.net, January 17, 2013
,eri Guten Cohen, The Detroit Jewish News, Roots, p.46, Aug. 2, 2012
Rebecca Mazzei, Metro Times, In Praise of Paint, April 2, 2009
Dennis A. Nawrocki, Professor, Art History, College for Creative Studies, Hard Charging Abstractions
Colby Hakanson, Joy, The Detroit News, October 16, 1992
Miro, Marsha, The Detroit Free Press January 26, 1992, April 26, 1991
SELECTED EXHIBITION CATALOGUES
Studio Visit Magazine, Volume Four, The Open Studio Press, p.70-71
The Healing Work of Art, Collection of Detroit Receiving Hospital, p.108, ISBN979-0-9798818
Butler Institute of American Art, “63 Annual Midyear”. 1999
Rutgers National 96, Works of Paper, Stedman Art Gallery, 1996
Great Lakes Regional Art Exhibition, Midland Center for the Arts, 1995
SELECTED AWARDS
2009, Artist Residency, JTHR, Joshua Tree, California
1993, Krasl Art Center Award
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Dennos Museum Center, Northwestern Michigan College, Traverse City, Michigan
Detroit Receiving Hospital, Detroit, Michigan
Ernst and Young, Detroit, Michigan
MGM Grand Casino, Detroit, Michigan
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
College Art Association
Board Member, College of Fine and Performing Arts, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
WORK EXPERIENCE
2002-2004, Adjunct Instructor, Foundation, College for Creative Studies, Detroit, Michigan
Juror, Ann Arbor Women Artists Spring Exhibit, Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan
1981-2001 Artist/Teacher, Art, Western International High School, Detroit, Michigan
1996- Adjunct Instructor, Fine Arts, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
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