See Line Gallery presents Los Angeles based artist Marcy Freedman’s solo exhibition, The Rock Of the World was Founded Securely on a Fairy’s Wing.
The air, an empty white wall, blank sheets of paper, wire, spray paint, yarn and cardboard are the raw materials Freedman chooses for her discreet sculptures and drawings. Lightness was an unintended quality that found its way into the evolution of her art making.
Marcy Freedman’s work privileges Italo Calvino’s thought that when things become too weighty; lightness is used not as escape but as an approach from a new direction. The lightness in her work connects Freedman to the wild and complex motion of the invisible world between people and the objects that surround them.
Freedman’s sculptures and drawings also refer to the discovery that when particles of matter can in fact be wrung out of a seemingly empty field by quantum fluctuation, that from out of a desert like vacuum can come a squirming proliferation of inhabitants from the particle zoo, it confirmed the ancient Eastern idea that empty space is alive and procreative. By paying close attention to the placement of her sculptures in the air, how she composes images on walls and paper, Freedman makes sure that the “emptiness” surrounding the work becomes as substantial as the work that hangs or is drawn within it.
Marcy Freedman received her MFA California College of Art, San Francisco. Her work was recently included in Flourish at the Torrance Art Museum. Freedman has shown in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Paris, New York and Los Angeles. Her curatorial project Drawing In Residence is currently being exhibited at the Torrance Art Museum. Marcy Freeman’s work will be featured in the upcoming two-person exhibition Marcy and Marcy, at Cuchifritos, New York.