"Eric and I became friends through Ross (Bleckner)," writes photographer Kelly Klein, "I would go over and visit him at his studio, he'd explain his process and objectives, I was so seduced by his use of color and thought of him as radiant as his work.

Brintz Gallery is honored to present The Color of Light, a two-person exhibition featuring recent paintings by Ross Bleckner and Eric Freeman. Bleckner and Freeman have known each other for twenty-five years and share a deep interest in the psychological aspects of painting and in the capacity of light and color to evoke feelings of the sublime.

2003年1月27日 · Their beauty comes from “the volatile mix of the ineffable and the physical,” writes Ross Bleckner, the Minimalist artist who has been a friend and mentor to Freeman since he took up the...

ERIC FREEMAN Born 1970, Brooklyn, NY. Lives and works in Sagaponack, NY. ... 1999 The Stroke, Exit Art, curated by Ross Bleckner, New York, NY 1997 The Moderns, Feature Gallery, New York, NY ... Eric Freeman at Mary Boone, ART IN AMERICA, September 2003, pp. 118-119. Myers, Holly, Around the Galleries: Hard to look at, yet absorbing, LOS ...

Provenance: The artist. Eric Freeman, East Hampton, New York. Private Collection, New York.

Bleckner is known for painting elegant emotional compositions full of color, light, and movement. He often employs a soft blurring of his images; the resulting effect is a sense of being in a moment of time actually passing in the present.

Influential contemporary artist Ross Bleckner is renowned for his large-scale abstract and figurative paintings that convey themes of change, loss and memory. Using recurring symbolism such as flowers, birds, urns and candelabras, along with patterns like stripes and dots, Bleckner’s immersive works elicit a hypnotic effect while suggesting ...

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (CONT.) ERIC FREEMAN 2002 Glenn Horowitz Booksellers, East Hampton, NY, USA 2000 Stefan Stux Gallery, Project Room, New York, NY, USA 2000 24 / 7, curated by Lisa Panzera, Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY, USA 1999 Size Matters, curated by Mike Weiss, Gale Gates et. al., Brooklyn, NY, USA 1999 The Stroke, curated by Ross Bleckner, Exit Art, New York, NY, USA

Eric Freeman is an internationally-exhibited, mid-career artist known for his vibrant visual meditations on light and color. A Bomb Magazine critic once praised Freeman’s works as “Mark Rothko paintings… with the volume turned way up,” and his paintings’ luminous intensity has also earned favorable comparisons to the work of Light and ...

In their last group exhibition, Freeman’s works were featured alongside those of other artists such as Ross Bleckner, Michael Chuapoco, Nick Georgiou, Fiona Smyth, Paula DeLuccia, Nancy Holt, Jason Revok, Matvey Levenstein, David Mach and Sebastian Blanck. Explore current exhibitions featuring Eric Freeman's works.