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June Issue 2006
Mary Martin Gallery of Fine Art in Charleston, SC, Features Works by Douglass Freed
Nationally exhibited artist Douglass Freed debuts at the Mary Martin Gallery of Fine Art in Charleston, SC, with the exhibit, Time Passages, a collective exhibit of multi panel oil paintings depicting nonspecific landscapes at various moments in time. The exhibit will be on view through June 30, 2006. The artist explains, "My intent is to create paintings imbued with a meditative, spiritual presence suggesting issues about time and ecology."
Douglass Freed is a nationally recognized landscape artist who mystically captures the atmosphere of a specific site without blatantly revealing its locality. In many ways these are universal landscapes that we have all encountered at some time in our lives, in other ways these settings are from another world or time that we will never experience. The artist constructs multi panel pieces from two or more canvases which are then linked together. Each panel represents a plot of land at a specific point moment. One panel is usually less descriptive but more mystic or spiritual than another. "I think of the second panel as a memory," Freed explains. "The first panels are much more clear."
Freed explains his process, "I try to capture the mystical light found in natural atmospheric effects: the haze in the distance on humid summer days, the overcast gloom of winter skies, the softness of landscape bathed in fog, and the quieting mood of approaching darkness." In doing so, the artist paints with an indescribably softness virtually void of any evidence of a brush stroke.
Although born and raised in western Kansas, and now working both as an artist and art director for the Daum Museum of Art in Sedalia, MO, most of Freed's subject matter is drawn from photographs he has taken on his national and international travels. In a way, the mystery of the location reflects the abstract style with which the artist began his career in the 1970s.
Freed received both his Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master's degrees from Kansas State University in Fort Hays, Kansas. He currently resides in Sedalia.
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