Covers 13 - Purple A Philippe Halaburda Fragments of the modern world

Fragments of the modern world seem to appear and then disappear in the work

rather than in her New York studio

This artwork is part of a series of works on paper started in 2016

creating pieces ranging in size from one to eight square meters

Covers 13 - Purple A Philippe Halaburda Fragments of the modern worldJoanne Freeman uses tape to mask out shapes and employ hard edges, working spontaneously, placing down a shape and then building upon it. Her use of singular color accentuates the interplay of ground, foreground relationships. Freeman tries to merge random gestures and idiosyncratic shapes with a controlled and reductive abstract language. This piece is part of a series titled "Covers", it pays homage to the graphic style of album covers, paperback