Marcia Freedman

Biography

MARCIA FREEDMAN

BIOGRAPHY


Marcia Freedman is a Detroit area artist who maintains a studio in the Pioneer Building. She graduated with an MFA from Wayne State University in 1992.

Solo exhibitions include the Pearl Conard Gallery, Ohio State University, Mansfield Ohio, Western Illinois University Art Gallery, Macomb, Illinois, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, Cary Gallery, Rochester, Michigan, Paint Creek Center for the Arts, Rochester, Michigan, Macomb Community College, Mt. Clemens, Michigan and the former Start Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan.

Select group exhibitions include Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America, eDrive & Powertrain Division, Detroit, Michigan, Kresge Foundation Headquarters, Troy, Michigan, Paint Creek Center for the Arts, Rochester, Michigan, St. Louis University Museum, St. Louis, Missouri, Elaine Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, Michigan, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio, South Bend Regional Art Museum, South Bend, Indiana, Dennos Museum Center, Northwestern College, Traverse City, Michigan, Linda Ross Contemporary Art + Projects, Huntington Woods, Mich. A.I.R. Gallery, New York, Stedman Gallery, Rutgers, Camden, New Jersey, Midland Center for the Arts, Midland, Michigan, Gwenda Jay Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, Krasl Art Center, St. Joseph, Michigan and ARC Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.

Public collections include the Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan and the Dennos Museum Center, Northwestern College, Traverse City, Michigan.
Corporate collections include Ernst & Young, Detroit, Michigan, Detroit Receiving Hospital, Detroit, Michigan and MGM Grand, Detroit, Michigan.

All of her investigations have centered on using nature and the figure as a vehicle to describe the fluidity of life. Freedman fractures and reconfigures images found in the body to form abstractions that are based on the constant inquiry into the reality of life experience.