janice freeman
Janice Freeman works in a wide variety of mediums, including oil and acrylic painting, collage, monotypes, encaustic, stone sculpture, watercolor, and – most recently – soft sculpture.
She has described herself, first of all, as a colorist. For the first nine years of her career, Freeman lived in Dallas, establishing a studio and exhibiting at the Edith Baker Gallery and the Dallas Museum of Art. In 1996, she moved to Houston, exhibiting there with the Koelsch Gallery, and establishing relationships with Taos Blue Gallery in New Mexico and Paragon Gallery in Los Angeles. Freeman has exhibited her work widely in the United States, Mexico, and Spain. In 2009, the Museo Regional de Querétaro exhibited 27 new paintings by Freeman. The show was accompanied by a catalog and an introduction by David S. Rubin Brown, Curator of Contemporary Art at the San Antonio Museum of Art, then opened in November of 2010 at the Gallery Nord in San Antonio, 2011, “Tornadoes and Nests” appeared in the new acquisitions opening at the San Antonio Museum of Art. She has exhibited thru Site Houston in the Washington Avenue Arts District at The Silos on Sawyer, a venue curated by Bill Arning of the Contemporary Art Museum of Houston and Julie Gillian of University of Houston, ending in article written by Bill Arning for ArtNews magazine. She has shown large-scale oil paintings on brushed aluminum panels at Williams Tower, and in 2022, there will be a public showing of a large bird installation at Bill Arning Exhibitions and an exhibit at Open Mind Gallery in Los Angeles, California.
select exhibitions
2022 “Audacious”, Bill Arning Exhibitions, Houston, Texas
2021 “Buffalo Bayou: River of Life”, Flatland Gallery & Café Brasil, Houston, Texas
2021 “The Big Bang!”, The Orange Show’s 40th Anniversary Gala Auction, NRG Stadium, Houston, Texas
2021 “The Happening”, Kinder HSPVA 50th Anniversary Alumni Exhibition, Diverse Works, Houston, Texas
2018 “Oferendas y Flores”, The Orange Show’s 37th Annual Gala Auction, NRG Stadium, Houston, Texas
2017 “Kaleidoscope - Approaching Nature”, Williams Tower, Houston, Texas
2016 “Site Houston - Rice Silos”, Washington Arts District, Houston, Texas
2014 “The Brandon”, The Brandon, Houston, Texas
2014 “Art Bridge 2014”, Betty Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas
2014 “Hunting Art Prize Finalist Exhibit”, Toyota Center, Houston, Texas
2014 “Intervals - Capriccio” , Lone Star College, Kingwood, Texas
2013 “37th Juried VAA Show - Gus Kopriva” - Williams Tower, Houston, Texas
2012 “7th Juried VAA Show”, Williams Tower, Houston, Texas
2011 “Stories, Dreams and Passages”, Gallery Nord, San Antonio, Texas
2011 “Historias, Sueños y Travesias”, Museo Regional de Queretaro, Queretaro, Mexico
2011 “Recent Acquisitions”, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas
2008 “The 37th International Juried Show”, Museum of Fine Arts of Brownsville, Texas
2007 “Variantes”, Pergola Gallery, Guanajuato, Mexico
2006 “Bottles, Wires and Cans”, Galleria Del Centro, Guanajuato, Mexico
2005 “Studio #1”, Studio, Guanajuato, Mexico
2004 “Studio #2”, Open Studio, Guanajuato, Mexico
2003 “Rodeo Time”, Nancy Worthington Fine Art, Houston, Texas
2003 “Small Works”, Koelsch Gallery, Houston, Texas
2001 “Cow Parade”, The Houstonian, Houston, Texas
2000 “Seventy Five Pieces”, Summer Street Studio, Houston, Texas
2000 “Beaux Art Ball”, Museum of Fine Art, Dallas, Texas
1999 “Small Works”, Koelsch Gallery, Houston, Texas
1999 “Way Cool Benefit”, Koelsch Gallery, Houston, Texas
1998 “Art Crawl”, Nancy Worthington Fine Art, Houston, Texas
1998 “February Angel”, Koelsch Gallery, Houston, Texas
1997 “After the Birth Come the Stories”, Summer Street Studio, Houston Texas
1997 “Two Visions: Winningham and Freeman”, Galleria San Miguel, Guanajuato, Mexico
1997 “H.S.P.V.A. Celebrating Twenty Five Years”, A Juried Exhibition at Diverse Works, www.diverseworks.org, Houston, Texas
1995 “One Woman, One Night Only”, Susan G. Komen Foundation Benefit thru Vary Magazine Dallas, Texas
1995 “Adios”, Hickory Street Annex, Dallas, Texas
1995 “The Circus Series”, The Call Corporation, Dallas, Texas
1995 “Sand Paintings”, The Dallas Design Center, Wendy Krispin Showroom, Dallas, Texas
1994 “Rites of Spring”, Edith Baker Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1993 “Garden Series”, Women’s World Exposition, Dallas, Texas
1993 “Visions-The Women’s Expo”, Dallas Infomart, Dallas, Texas
1992 “Architectural Elements”, Hickory Street Annex, Dallas, Texas
1992 “Horses” Fair Park Coliseum”, Dallas, Texas
1992 “Monotypes of a Texan”, d’Cada Galleria, Spain
workshops & awards
2021 Award – Artwork for El Dorado’s mezcal label
2016 The Pozos Art Project – A Printmaking Workshop Culminating in a Publication of the Children’s Work Titled “Eyes of our Children”, Rice University, Houston, Texas
2012 “Home and Place: Collage Art with Janice Freeman”, Houston Grand Opera
2010 “Artist Lecture Series”, Biblioteca of San Miguel de Allende
2009 “The Pozos Children’s Project” The Bill Witliff Collection of Southwestern and Mexican Photography, San Marcos
2008 – 2015 The Pozos Art Project Workshops
2008 “The Pozos Children’s Project”, The Regional Museum of Queretaro, Queretaro, Mexico
2007 “The Pozos Children’s Project”, Photofest at The Jung Center, Houston, Texas
2002 City of the Children Monotype Workshop
2002 Other Americas Summer Workshops with Geoff Winningham (Drawing and Photography)
1999 Other Americas Summer Workshops with Geoff Winningham and Sally Gall, (Drawing and Photography)
1998 Other Americas Summer Workshops with Geoff Winningham and John Szarkowski, (Drawing and Photography)
1996 Other Americas Summer Workshops with Geoff Winningham, (Drawing and Photography)
1984, 1985, and 1986 Lamont Wilcox Full Talent Scholarship
education
2016 Rice University, Glasscock School of Continuing Studies – Courses in Printmaking
1982 University of Texas – BFAs in Design, Art, Television, and Radio
1977 High School for the Performing and Visual ArtsTexas