INDIGO FREE
Born 1996 Petrolia, CA
Lives and works on Orcas Island, WA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Cloudberry, Must Gallery, Orcas Island WA
2023 From Silent Place, S&S Cornershop, South Hampton NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 OPEM, S&S Cornershop, South Hamptom NY
Residencies
2017 Residency in the Garden, Portland OR
2021 Doe Bay, Orcas Island WA
SOME THOUGHTS ON PAINTING:
Painting is how I interpret and organize memories. I divide my time between painting and a therapeutic practice working with trauma and somatic memory. This significantly informs my art practice. When I paint, I try to hold an open, neutral, welcoming mind. Ideas float in that way. It's a meditation practice of accepting what comes and goes. I find that halfway through a painting I begin to understand it's context. I realize I've recreated something familiar, unknowingly. A scene from childhood, half remembered, a forgotten place. This is my way of connecting to both the transcendent and mundane aspects of being a living human. Looking back, wondering if my memories and dreams could be a shared experience.
All pieces are hand-built, stretched, and framed. I like being involved in the practical steps in creating an object as a balance and conclusion to the symbolic and ephemeral.