Marley Freeman
no life be hostage of my comfort (2024)
23-color screenprint on Coventry Rag paper
30 x 22 inches
Signed and numbered
Edition of 100
$500
Marley Freeman's no life be hostage of my comfort (2024), translates the layering of transparent and opaque passages of color that characterizes her paintings into the medium of screen printing. Titled after a line from a poem by environmental activist and writer Wendell Berry, the abstract work is a collision of dynamically interwoven forms at once geometric and gestural. Shapes make contact with each other and appear to react, animated and dancing even as they remain fixed in place. Freeman connects her sensitivity to the interaction of color and form and her predilection for layered compositions to her childhood, spent among the antique textiles dealt by her father, and her later experiences archiving and cataloging a library of historical textiles for an American fabric mill. The process of screen printing, common in the production of patterned fabric, expands Freeman's painting practice by introducing yet another method of layering color and form.
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