Kaye Freeman
Kaye Freeman is a contemporary artist working in the mediums of oil paint, oil stick, graphite, mixed media and film.
MessageKaye Freeman is a contemporary artist working in the mediums of oil paint, oil stick, graphite, mixed media and film. She uses painting, drawing, three dimensional assemblage as well as film to explore politics, gender, identity, religion and violence. Her immersive process uncovers the essence of what it means to be human moving thought a life. Her childhood and adolescence was spent in Japan and South East Asia where she learned the skills of objective observation as a foreigner looking in so to speak. Keeping with the Taoist philosophy of seeing the world through beginners eyes. Weaving what she see and senses into a tapestry that takes the viewer on a journey reminiscent of Odysseus.
Since moving from Australia to the US 2016 Freeman has been invited to exhibit at Art Palm Springs and the LA Art Show, Brand Works on Paper in Glendale and Womens Own Gallery in Chicago where she was honoured with an award for her drawing Braggadocios Chatterunga. In 2018 she was also awarded first prize for painting at the Beverly Hills Art Fair. Her work regularly appears in the LA Art Publication Full Blede. In 2019 Freeman collaborated on a book with poet Natasha Dennerstein titled: Turn and face the Strangepublished by Norfolk Press. In the same year she was invited to exhibit at MOAH Lancaster with a solo show curated by Amy Kaps featuring Freeman's 29 foot painting The Seven Winds which has now been made into a short film.
Kaye Freeman is part of the new Digital Platform curated by Terrell Tilford at Band of Vices. This platform was created to showcase artists during the current mandate of social distancing in our community. Most recently Freeman has exhibited as part of the group show at Band of Vices LA Mescaline and Multifaceted at Tufenkian Fine Arts. Her two most recent Solo Exhibitions have been at The Hardin Center in Gadsen Alabama and at present, Cosmic Origami at the Museum of Arts and Sciences Macon Georgia.
Statement
Through painting and drawing I fold and unfold the myths that surround us like a cosmic origami. Capturing the frenetic nature of the ether through lines and colors borrowed and blended from a hybrid of cultures. Our commonality as humans is essential in my dialogue, as I push through aesthetic norms of acceptability and taste. Memories, myths and shared emotions weave through my paintings, abstracted and reshaped again and again until we come to see that our humanity is what humbles us and sustains us. Capturing the constant oceanic movement of what it means to move through a life. To capture the ineffable in paint and graphite. To resonate with a truth that lies beneath all our embellishments. My work is more than a representation of a thing, it is the thing. And it continues to evolve long after I am finished with it, because the viewer then takes it to their own place of understanding and experience. For it is then that the art work becomes the relationship and the journey.
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