marcy s. freedman

 

 

 

 

 

Solo exhibitions

 

2003                                Viscosity Atrocities, Makor Cultural Center, New York, New York

 

2002                                                Sweet (on the) Spot, Galerie Jette Rudolph, Berlin, Germany

orange Slipping Drips, Art Frankfurt solo booth, Galerie Michael Cosar, Frankfurt, Germany

Seep Spill Spread, Miller Durazo, Los Angeles, CA

                                       

2001                                MadeTheAppleOrchardMissedTheSugarCaneFieldTrip, Wintergarten, Vienna, Austria

Me, Candy Farmer, Galerie Michael Cosar, Dusseldorf, Germany

The Beauty of a Slow Dripping Force, Refusalon Project Space, San Francisco, CA

 

2000                                The Iridescent Abyss Where Things are Dissolved, AOV, San Francisco, CA

Stuck Sprinkle Glop, NEO restaurant, curated by Jenn Joy, San Francisco, CA

 

 

selected group exhibitions

 

 

2003                                                Growing Up Absurd, Post, curated by Jette Rudolph, Los Angeles, CA

Growing Up Absurd II Galerie Felix Ringel, Dusseldorf, Germany

                                         

2002                                Ecstasy Falls, G-module, Paris, France

Fantastic Plastic, Art Loves Design/Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, FLA.

                                        Relative Objects, Post, Los Angeles, CA

                                        Necessary Fictions, Di Chiara Gallery, New York, NY

                                        Good  Vibrations, Galerie Jette Rudolph, Berlin, Germany

                                        Drawing Room, 0 1, Los Angeles, CA

                                        Transit: Survival Skills, Park Paradise, Scottsdale, AZ

Undrawn, The Brewery Project, Los Angeles, CA

Wild Palms, 0 1, Los Angeles, CA

                                        Wheeling, Travelling Show - Ausstellungsraum de Ligt, Frankfurt, Germany

                                                                                      Galerie Jette Rudolph, Berlin, Germany

 

 

  2001                              Colour/Color/Farbe  # 1 and # 2, Galerie Van de Berge, Goos, Holland

                                        Pop konkret, Galerie Jette Rudolph, Berlin, Germany

fresh Sh#! Gallery 207, Los Angeles, CA

Art Amsterdam, Galerie Van de Berge, Amsterdam, Holland

 

  2000                              Mein Kampf, Mein Krampf, Hotel Viennart, Austrotel Art Fair, Vienna, Austria

                                        Stacks And Shoots, Occidental College, curated by Geoff Allen, Los Angeles, CA

1: 1, Refusalon, San Francisco, CA

 

 1999                               tender, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA

Sunspot Laboratory Show, Cal State Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

 

1994                                Open Window Gallery, Poster Art on double decker buses, London, England

 

 

CURATORIAL PROJECT

 

 

 

Drawing in Residence Director of this day long urban drawing residency. Artists are invited to my house for a home cooked lunch, and to produce work for yearly culminating shows. Posters made to document each project. The project is ongoing.

 

September 2002              Marcy Freedman, Friends and Acquaintances, Wintergarten, Vienna, Austria

Presented artists’ drawings from California residency projects in conjunction with solo show madetheappleorchardmissedthesugarcanefieldtrip

 

February 2001                Never Underestimate the Power Of a Drawing–Phase 1, Refusalon, San Francisco, CA

Presented work by the first 16 artist-participants

 

 

 

 

AWARDS AND GRANTS

 

 

 

September 2002              DuRfee Foundation Grant                               ARC Grant

May 2000                        dennis leon award                                            California College of Arts and Crafts

September 1999              all college honors award                           California College of Arts and Crafts

May 1993                        san francisco education fund grant         Art Education Grant

April 1993                        eli and edith broad foundation grant       Art Education Grant       

 

 

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

 

G. Charles Rump, Marcy Freedman's Schonheits-Virus, Die Welt, July 2002

Magdalena Kroner, Dotterblume und Zucker-Dschungel, Rheinische Post, November 2001

Manisha Jothady-Haller, Frame Magazine, November 2001

Christine Fricke, Gespinst aus Zucker, October 2001

Anni Buerkl,  Die Standard, (www.diestandard.com), online slide show, September 2001

Nicoloa Eller, Die Kulutrwoche (Cultural Week), ORF ( Austrian National Television) September 2001

Doris Krumpl,  review, DER STANDARD September 2001

Harry Roche,  Never Underestimate the Power of a Drawing , Artweek, April 2001

 

 

 

SELECTED PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

 

 

Chiara Andres, San Francisco, California

Erik Bakke, New York, New York

Janet Bishop, San Francisco, California

Mira Block, San Francisco, California

Gerald Brett, Palo Alto, California

Tecoah Bruce, Oakland, California

Kerrie Condron, San Francisco, California

David Levine, Palo Alto, California

Nadja Mayer, Frankfurt, Germany

Ruth and Marvin Sackner, Miami Beach, Florida

Jim Prell, New York, New York

Jayne Spensieri, San Francisco, California

Nadja Theil, Dusseldorf, Germany

Jenny VanHorn, San Francisco, Germany

Linda Zweig, New York, New York

 

 

 

education

 

 

 

2000                                california college of arts and crafts, San Francisco, CA

                                        Master of Fine Arts

 

1991                                san francisco state university, San Francisco, CA

                                        Master of Arts, Inter-Arts Center

 

1987                                university of michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

                                        Bachelor of Arts, Political Science & Mass Media

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    

 

   

 

 

                                       

 

 

 

 

Teaching Experience

 

 

 

2003                                GUEST LECTURER

California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, CA

Slide lecture of personal work to undergraduate painting seminar

                                       

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

                                        PASSPORT TO THE ARTS- PUBLIC CORPORATION FOR THE ARTS

                                        Long Beach, CA

Develop and teach a visual, musical, poetry project for twenty 3rd grade classrooms  

 

2002                                ARTS EDUCATOR

                                        THE GETTY MUSEUM, Los Angeles, CA

Lead hands-on art making activities that reflects ideas in art from selections in the permanent collection

 

1993-Present                  poet-teacher

                                        california poets in the schools, San Francisco, CA

Develop curriculum, teach students to write poetry, all levels. Work with filmmaker to produce a video for PBS program Zoom. Edited and designed school wide poetry books.

 

2001                                GUEST LECTURER

University of California, Davis, CA

Slide lecture of personal work to MFA student seminar

 

PROJECT MANAGER

                                        creative work fund grant, San Francisco, CA

Conducted research, arranged fieldwork scheduling, distributed mass produced artist book to 5th graders in the San Francisco Bay Area

 

2000                                ART instructor

                                        california state summer school for the arts, Valencia,CA

Taught creative writing and visual poetry courses for this state wide high school summer arts program

 

                                        lecture series director

                                        california college of arts and crafts, San Francisco, CA

Selected speakers and coordinated series that included artists, critics and curators from London’s ICA, the Berkeley Museum of Art, and Artforum magazine.  

 

1999                                ART instructor

                                        california college of arts and crafts, San Francisco, CA

Taught visual arts about Mail Art for summer high school arts program

 

1998-1999                       artist INSTRUCTOR

san francisco arts education project, San Francisco, CA

Collaborated with students and filmmaker to make video-poems                                                                                                  

1994                                lecturer, panel discussion member

national poetry education conference, San Francisco, CA

Lead a workshop and act as panel member for writing teachers on the subject of interdisciplinary art