Janice Freeman
Houston-based multidisciplinary artist Janice Freeman finds endless inspiration in the world around her, in people, cultures, structures, environments, phenomena, flora, and fauna. Throughout her career, from her undergraduate studies at the University of Texas- Pan American, to her twenty-year-long sojourn in Mexico, Freeman has consistently drawn upon the world’s beauty as a catalyst for creativity. However, never content with merely imitating the forms and physics of the visible world with true-to-life precision and detail, Freeman reimagines, invigorates, and intensifies the natural world to create fantastical and mystical art. Freeman’s lively imagination guides her sophisticated draughtsmanship and skillful illusionism to produce mind-bending, dreamlike paintings that are equal parts surreal, visionary, and charmingly whimsical. A powerful and unorthodox colorist, Freeman selects and boldly arranges pigments according to her emotional responses to visual stimuli. In addition to painting, Freeman crafts playful and inventive textile sculptures that often resemble animalistic bodies and biomorphic shapes, bringing fabric, wood, and twill to life. According to curator David S. Rubin, “With a keen eye for detail, very little has escaped Freeman’s attention or imagination – from mariachis singing and youth romping about, to food for sale or to be consumed in a delicious meal, to the enchanting varieties of plants, birds, and animals, to the architectural or landscape peculiarities of a locale.” Freeman’s art has been exhibited at the San Antonio Museum of Art, the Museo Regional de Querétaro, and the Dallas Museum of Art.
