An Exhibit by Myles Freeman

January 6— February 5, 2025

Gallery Wall in the Peggy Dow Performance Center

OPENING RECEPTION
Friday, January 10 at 5:00 PM

ABOUT THE EXHIBIT

Foundational influences are sci-fi films the artist saw growing up: Dune, Alien, and Blade Runner. The mythology of Star Wars, in particular, has influenced his worldview. His current paintings consist of surreal, awkwardly connected beings inhabiting difficult landscapes or structures. They are meditations on the increasing tendency of global culture to shove its unwanted waste (human, psychic, and physical) to the margins of complex networked systems. "Cast-offs” in both the real world and in the paintings are offered platitudes and artificial distractions rather than authenticity or human warmth, but life and consciousness in all its complexity persists throughout.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Myles Freeman began drawing and painting at age 40, and found that a range of visual information from high to low, old to new, seeps into his work unconsciously over time.

Painting helps the artist make sense of a complex world, and is a way to communicate his particular experience of consciousness. Myles always aims to express himself well enough that viewers have a sense of recognition with a vaguely familiar visual world, one that reflects something truthful about being alive.