Marley Freeman: elbow fist to make
2441 Glendower Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90027
Parker Gallery is proud to present its third solo exhibition with Marley Freeman. The exhibition highlights the expressive possibility of paint across varying scales — from abstractions smaller than a letter-sized sheet of paper, to larger scale canvases encompassing our field of vision. Freeman approaches every painting with a deep sensitivity to color, form and feeling. Some works in the exhibition are comprised of single sweeping gestures, repeated exactly enough times to create deceptively complex patterns. In don’t die Wendell Berry, horizontal bands of distinct color butt up against one another, enhancing the effect of each unique pigment, from aqua hued blues to clay red, fuchsia, lavender and pale yellow. In delivered with pride, vertical strokes of varying opacity are organized from left to right in a tight palette of earthy brown hues, overlaying looser fields of electric orange, and mossy green pools of paint underneath.
Marley Freeman (b. 1981 in Boston, MA, lives and works in Massachusetts and New York). Recent solo exhibitions include those held at Karma, New York, NY (2022), Trave- sia Cuatro, Guadalajara, Mexico (2021), and Parker Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2020). Se- lect group exhibitions include New Abstracts: Recent Acquisitions, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (2022), Ceramics Club: CC22, White Columns, New York, NY (2022), A Window is Also a Wall, Dunes, Portland, ME (2022) and Impressions of the Fall, 47 Canal, New York, NY (2022). Her work is included in the collections of Fundación AMMA, Mexico City; Fundación Medianoche0, Granada, Spain; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; RISD Museum, Providence, RI; San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.