Books and Catalogues
Bibliography catalog icon

George Kinghorn, Three Chords, UMaine Museum of Art, Catalogue Essay, June, 2013

Bibliography catalog icon

Joanne Freeman, Wit at the Painting Center, Catalogue essay, February, 2013

Bibliography catalog icon

Joanne Freeman, Kim Uchiyama, COLOR-TIME-SPACE
Lohin Geduld Gallery, 2009
Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, 2009
Rosenberg Gallery, Hofstra Unversity, 2010

Articles and Reviews
Bibliography article icon

Daniel Kany, Art Review: Paintings in the Key of Bob Dylan anchor strong line up at UMMA, Portland Press Herald, Aug. 25, 2013

Bibliography article icon

Lilly Wei, "Joanne Freeman and Kim Uchiyama". Artnews. December, 2008

Bibliography article icon

Mario, Naves."Patience and Care Engender Paintings in Perpetual Motion". New York Observer. December, 2005

Selected Website Listings
Bibliography external website link icon

Signage (Artists in Cars) curated by Joanne Freeman, Vice President of the American Abstract Artists
IDEELART, Online Exclusive

Bibliography external website link icon

Diversity is Key to the Future of American Abstract Artists
Apr 24, 2019

Bibliography external website link icon

DOMESTIC DISTURBANCES
490 Atlantic Gallery, Brooklyn
September 16 - October 29, 2017
Curated by Joanne Freeman

Bibliography external website link icon

Larkin, Daniel. “A Blue Gallery Tour of Chelsea,” Hyperallergic, March 11, 2016.

Bibliography external website link icon

Phillip J. Mellon, ahtcast.com, artist interview: Joanne Freeman February 2, 2016

Bibliography external website link icon

“Joanne Freeman Interview,” Ideel Art Blog, March 5, 2016

Bibliography external website link icon

IN CONVERSATION WITH JOANNE FREEMAN
CELESTE KAUFMAN, KATHRYN MARKEL FINE ARTS, FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Bibliography external website link icon

Rhiannon Leigh, Formal Aspects at the Cape Cod Museum of Art, Artscope web zine, March, 2015

Bibliography external website link icon

Franklin Einspruch, When Hostility Turns into Mannerism. Subtle Simplicity Offers Respite, Art Critical, Dec. 16, 2013

Bibliography external website link icon

Brett Baker , Joanne Freeman: In Conversation, Painters' Table, Aug, 27th 2013

Bibliography external website link icon

Joanne Mattera, Joanne Mattera's Art Blog, Calligraphic Blue, 5/01/12

Bibliography external website link icon

Joanne Mattera, Joanne Mattera's Art Blog, Color-Time-Space. 10/14/2009

Bibliography external website link icon

Joanne Mattera, Joanne Mattera's Art Blog, Acute Conditions, 10/03/08,

When I was in Provincetown last week I stopped in at Gallery Ehva on Shank Painter Road, where Joanne Freeman was in the middle of a residency. The image above is what I saw when I walked in: A work in progress with many sheets of calligraphic shapes on the floor. The sheets were painted in an ultramarine-ish gouache with a flat brush so that the thickness of the line never wavered. The color was unremarkable, dry and uninflected.

From that scatter of sheets, Freeman would select one and begin to modulate the color. As she dampened the line, then blotted and wiped, gorgeous things started to happen: The ultramarine became richly transparent. It had depth. There were undertones of cobalt. Turquoise emerged. The work was far enough along that the chromatic difference between the sheets on the floor and those on the wall was quite apparent.


Seeing the work in progress--and then a few days later, an emailed image of the finished work--I was struck by the cursive and chromatic symmetry between it and the blue tile niche wall in the newly renovated Middle Eastern wing at The Met, which I'd photographed the previous week. All of the blue tiles and vessels resonated with that symmetry.

"Not a coincidence," says Freeman. "I really like arabic calligraphy. I've spent a lot of time in Morocco."

But a lovely serendipity.

Joanne Mattera, Joanne Mattera's Art Blog, Calligraphic Blue, 5/01/12

http://joannemattera.blogspot.com/2012/05/calligraphic-blue.html