As a painter, Ruth Freeman finds interest in using nonobjective elements of space, form, and color as the primary building blocks to create apomorphic and utopian imagery. The painting surface is a place to imagine irrational environments that erase gender, warp space, and eliminate gravity. The juxtaposition of gestural and hard-edged forms aims to create a playful contrast between the rigidity inherent in virtual drawing and the liberating mental space found in hand sketching or observing physical objects. Taped edges, intentionally imperfect with leaks, smudges, and tiny irregularities, contribute a subliminal personal touch to her compositions.
Freeman received her MFA in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in New York City (2016). Her paintings have been featured in exhibitions around New York, San Francisco, and the Hudson Valley including select group shows at Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, Thierry Goldberg Gallery in NYC, Art Austerlitz, and The Wassaic Project. Ruth had her first solo show at Beers London in 2016 and her paintings were exhibited at Future Fair NYC in 2022 and Pulse Miami in 2019. She is the recipient of the 2022 Nicholas Buhalis Award associated with the Radius 50 exhibition at Woodstock Artists Association and Museum. Her work is published in New American Paintings Northeast Issue #122 and MFA Issue #129. Ruth currently works with COUNTY Gallery in Palm Beach, Florida, Uprise Gallery in New York, and has small works in the 2024 Trove flat file at Deanna Evans Projects in New York.
