Gallery Hours:
 Thursday and Friday 10-6
 "First Friday" 10-8
 Saturday 10-5
 "Second Sunday" 12-4

Other Hours Available
by Appointment

Presenting

James V. Freeman’s luminous oil paintings offer viewers a tour of places he visits in his sleep. Freeman’s dreams are highly visual and rarely include people and stories. Since words cannot express what he sees in his night travels, he describes them in his art. Working from memory, Freeman captures the essence of his dreamscapes in a sketchbook. As he develops his compositions these surreal panoramas become increasingly photo-realistic.

Freeman’s art is obviously inspired by nature. As a boy, he enjoyed exploring creeks, caves, forests, and prairies. He was fascinated by seedpods, insects, and geology and built mini-environments with things collected on his walks.

His paintings are a blending of landscape and still life with a playful distortion of scale. Tiny close objects are dramatically enlarged and share the same picture plane with large forms in the distance. Natural objects are personified and assume the poses of figurative shapes. Background grays and body tints are charged with isolated brilliant color. Ladders and wires guide the viewer traveling through this fantasy world.

Freeman’s art is a hike for the mind, thick with atmosphere and life. His paintings are a visual celebration of our place in a greater ecology. “I have painted these images, the billowing smoke, crisscrossed pipes, kinked grasses, river mud, tunneled dirt mounds, forgotten bodies of water, to come together as intense places of reflection.”

Freeman was classically trained as an illustrator and graduated magna cum laude from Savannah College of Art. He has been active in the Pennsylvania art scene since moving here from the Midwest in 1999. He now calls Lancaster his home. Among many honors, Freeman is included in Artists of River Towns by Doris Brandes, New American Paintings, Vol. 63, and New Art International. He won 1st prize at Lancaster Museum of Art’s 43rd Open Awards Show, Best in Show at Trenton City Museum’s 22nd Annual Ellarslie Open, and the grand prize from International Artist Magazine, Issue 50.

Imagined Landscapes by James V. Freeman will be on exhibit at Isadore Gallery, 228 N. Prince Street in Lancaster, August 30 through September 29. First Friday Reception will be held September 7, 5-9 PM. Normal gallery hours are Thursdays and Fridays 10-6, Saturdays 20-5, and by appointment call 717-299-0127.