Marie Freudenreich

“First of all, it’s about seeing what happens when one color touches another, which might then touch another…
Eventually it tells stories. False stories, perhaps… or maybe not.

I sometimes think of that song Blanche sings a few lines from in A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams:
‘It’s only a paper moon, sailing over a cardboard sea…’”

That is somewhat what Marie Freudenreich’s paintings are about.
A world held together with tape.
As if the image we perceive as “reality” were nothing more than a cardboard set, ready to blow away at the first gust of wind.
An optical illusion that barely conceals—like a skirt too short—the void surrounding us: the immense black cosmos, the eternity of death framing our lives.
The fragility of everything we know.

When two colors are placed side by side, they are truly edge to edge. There is no overlap, no safety margin.
If they were separated by even half a millimeter, the abyss hidden behind them would appear.

Education

École Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Nancy (1995–1998), DNAP

Art Students League of New York (1998–2003), Certificate of Completion in Fine Arts, Sculpture

Exhibitions