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Previous Shows: 2015: Search Party: Ruth Freeman

  • LCW2014. Acrylic on Canvas24 x 36 in.
  • Untitled2012. Acrylic on Panel12 x 9 in.
  • An Infinite Number of Monkeys2013. Acrylic on Panel24 x 30 in
  • Weeping For the End of Innocence2013. Acrylic on Panel12 x 9 in.
  • Like Father, Like Son2014. Acrylic on Panel30 x 24 in.
  • Untitled2013. Acrylic on Panel36 x 36 in.
  • Untitled2014. Acrylic on Panel36 x 48 in.
  • Haven’t Told Me Anything I Don’t Know Already2014. Acrylic on Panel36 x 24 in.
  • Never There2014. Acrylic on Panel48 x 36 in.10. Second Chance
  • Second Chance2014. Acrylic on Panel36 x 36 in.
  • Ruth Freeman's Studio, during her residency at the Vermont Studio Center, June, 2015
  • Ruth Freeman in her studio at Vermont Studio Center, June 2015Contact: art7884@gmail.comWebsite: www.ruthmfreeman.comArtist’s StatementThrough a mixture of gestural mark-making and both hard and soft-edged geometry, I build and destroy, resulting in off-kilter structures and asymmetrical balance.  I find that using a trace of control, which can begin with something as simple as an accidental overlap of shapes, adds strength and body to my gestural composition.  Then I add marks more deliberately, often aiming for a bit of humor.  Once the painting has found its basic form, as if it were a room in a newly constructed building that gains its own character after it becomes lived-in, I begin to see it as a place that can evolve and become even more fully developed.BioRuth Freeman holds a Bachelors of Architecture degree from the University of Oklahoma.  She has been involved in curatorial and exhibition design in both the US and Japan.  Her paintings have been featured in several exhibitions in California, including recent group shows at the Berkeley Art Center, in Berkeley, the Sanchez Art Center, in Pacifica, the San Geronimo Cultural Art Center, in San Geronimo, the Hive Gallery and CK Gallery, in Oakland, and the Diego Rivera Gallery, SOMArts Gallery, SB Gallery, Space Gallery, and Red Ink Studios, in San Francisco.  Ruth currently lives in New York City and is a 2016 MFA candidate at the School of Visual Arts.
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    • 2017
      • A Room With A View (curated by Lauren Whearty)
        • Essay
        • Aubrey Levinthal
        • Dustin Metz
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        • Jason Mones
        • George Rush
        • Emil Robinson
        • Jennifer Packer
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      • Overlaid and Underpinned, curated by Anthony Falcetta
        • Essay: Overlaid & Underpinned
        • Paolo Arao
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      • Aporia (curated by Mary DeVincentis Herzog
        • Peter Burns
        • Frankie Gardiner
        • Brenda Goodman
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        • Danny Licul
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        • John Smiddy
        • Aporia Exhibition Statement
        • Curator: Mary DeVincentis
    • 2016
      • Fiction (With Only Daylight Between Us) .v2
        • Fiction (With Only Daylight Between Us) .v2
        • Artists
      • Steve Gibson
        • Steve Gibson
        • Interview
      • Making a World: Mud Castles and Strange Wild Places
        • Susan Carr
        • An Interview
      • Open Pomegranate
        • Thibaud Thiercelin
        • Melanie Parke
        • Mary DeVincentis
        • Farrell Brickhouse
        • Katelyn Eichwald
        • Shaun Ellison
        • Richard Kooyman
        • Elaine Mari
        • Sarah Nesbit
        • Kyle Staver
        • Essay
    • 2015
      • The Player's Dinner
        • Intro
        • Essay
        • Curator
        • David Humphrey
        • Joshua Bienko
        • Katherine Bradford
        • Caroline Chandler Wells
        • Jaqueline Cedar
        • Rebecca Morgan
        • Matt Bolinger
        • Vicki Sher
        • Lauren Whearty
        • Andry Cross
        • Austin Furtake Cole
        • Paul Gagner
        • Summer Wheat
      • We Play So Hard At Being Human
        • Introduction
        • Sarah Granett
        • Ahna Serendren
        • Maria Theresa Barbist
        • Cassidy Garbutt
        • About the Artist
        • Curator
      • Decisons curated by Polly Shindler
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      • Search Party
        • Essay: Search Party
        • Jennnifer Turnage
        • Seren Moran
        • Ruth Freeman
        • Curator: Kimberly Rowe
      • The Julies and Julia Show
        • Julie Alexander
        • Julie Torres
        • Julie Alpert
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        • Aryia Martin
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        • Valerie Corradetti
        • Jenny Fine
        • JooYoung Choi
        • Nina Schwanse
      • Chill, Zen, Funk, & Twang
        • Introduction: C,Z,F & T
        • Chill, Zen, Funk & Twang I
          • Ian White Williams
          • Gabriel Luis Perez
          • Jessica Simorte
          • Paul Nagle
          • William Lawer
          • Lyle Carbajal
          • Tom Duimtra
          • David Myrvold
          • Lori Ott
          • Jason Rohlf
        • Chill, Zen, Funk & Twang II
          • David Pollack
          • Melissa Jean Gibson
          • James Lambert
          • Rosaire Appel
          • Brian Edmonds
          • Max Manning
          • Nick DePirro
          • Stephen B. Macinnis
          • Adams Puryear
          • Julie Alexander
        • Chill, Zen, Funk, & Twang III
          • Helen O' Leary
          • John McKie
          • Julon Pinkston
          • Ludovic Dervillez
          • Cyndy Goldman
          • Mandy Lyn Ford
          • James Prez
          • Julie Torres
          • Tim Schwartz
          • David T Miller
    • 2014
      • Soft Eyes
        • Statement
        • Katy Fischer
        • John Dilg
        • Richard Rezac
        • Travis Head
        • Leah Raintree
        • Andy Moon Wilson
        • Douglas Degges
        • Julia Fish
        • Scott Ingram
        • Hamlett Dobbins
        • Amy Pleasant
      • Viewing Surface
        • Joy Curtis
        • Meg Lipke
        • Mike Olin
        • Carolyn Salas
        • Curator: Sophia Alexandrov
        • Curatorial Statement
      • By Pleasure of Doing
        • Alex Paik
        • Brian Edmonds
        • Emre Kocagil
        • Ernesto Canovas
        • Gracjana Rejmer
        • Ivelisse Jimenez
        • Jessica Simorte
        • Juan Alberto Negroni
        • Lauri Hopkins
        • Max Manning
        • Nayda Collazo-Llorens
        • Nora Maite Nieves
        • Pedro Fortunato-Velasquez
        • Sebastian Vallejo
        • Roberto Marquez
        • Video
        • Installation Views
        • Essay
      • One Plus One is One
        • Statement
      • “Mind’s Eye (or, Ten Ways to Float)”
        • Introduction
        • Andrea Belag
        • Emily Berger
        • Rick Briggs
        • Denise Gale
        • Elizabeth Gilflen
        • Zachary Keeting
        • Victor Kord
        • Paul Pagk
        • Anne Russinof
        • Susan Wanklyn
      • Image After
        • Image After
        • Curated by Talia Shulze
      • Run Into Yourself
        • Alan Van Every
        • Fran O'Neill
        • HK Zamani
        • Jasmine Justice
        • Patrick Fitzgerald
        • Sangram Majumdar
      • Fresh as Form
        • Essay
        • Aubrey Levinthal
        • Virva Hinnemo
        • Lauren Garvey
        • Judith Farr
        • Derrick Quevedo
        • Melanie Parke
      • The Thing of It Is (curated by Steve Gibson)
        • Peter Shear
        • Ben Pritchard
        • Steve Gibson
        • John Mills
        • Richard Hull
        • Carlson Hatton
        • The Thing of It Is. (Essay)
      • Remote Viewing
        • Essay
        • Charles Ladson
        • Emil Robinson
        • Hanneline Røgeberg
        • Kim Dorland
        • Mira Gerard
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        • Minna Komi
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      • Order Manifest
        • Dale McNeil
        • Essay
        • About the Artist
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      • Fine Time: You've Got Love Technique
        • Alexander Kroll
        • Benjamin Gardner
        • Bret Slater
        • Geoffrey Todd Smith
        • Jason Karolak
        • Michael Wille
        • Curator: Jeffrey Cortland Jones
      • Above the elbow and up to the neck
        • Jason Stopa
        • Joshua Aster
        • Lia Lowenthal
        • Curator - Jaqueline Cedar
        • Essay
      • States of Being
        • Jennifer Wynne Reeves
        • David Mc Donald
        • Sabine Tress
        • Julie Torres
        • Valerie Brennan
        • Lucy Mink Covello
        • Mira Gerard
        • Rebecca Campbell
        • Julia Schwartz
        • Essay
      • What I Like About You
        • What I Like About You
      • Tune In, Paint Out
        • Tune In, Paint Out (Essay)
        • John Fields
        • Anoka Faruqee
        • Florian Heinke
        • Scott Stack
        • Brian Bishop
      • Untitled curated by TJ Donovan
      • Shock the Monkey
      • Repetition, Rhythm, and Pattern.
        • Alex Paik
        • Anna E. Mikolay
        • Brian Giniewski
        • Corey Escoto
        • Crystal Gregory
        • Helen O’Leary
        • Kate McGraw
        • Kim Beck
        • Lilly Zuckerman
        • Megan Cotts
        • Curator: Lindsey Landfried
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          • Paul Behnke
          • Vincent Como
          • Matthew Neil Gehring
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      • Emptiness is Form
        • Don Voisine
        • Karen Schifano
        • Myron Stout
        • Linda Francis
        • Curator: Jason Stopa
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    • 2012
      • ALLTOGETHERNOW
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        • Brian Edmonds
        • David T Miller
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        • Julie Torres
        • Justine Frischmann
        • Peter Shear
        • Stephen Wright
        • Vincent Hawkins
        • Yifat Gat
      • Materials and Methods
        • Lael Marshall
        • Elizabeth Sheppell
        • Terry Greene
        • Brian Cypher
      • Obsessive Aesthetics
        • Lindsey Landfried
        • Peter Gordon
        • Leslie Shellow
        • Annie Boyden Varnot
        • Curator:Allison Long Hardy
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      • A Dialogue in Abstraction
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