Hermine Freed

Hermine Freed (May 29, 1940 New York City – November 21, 1998 New York City) was an American painter and video artist.[1] She is noted for being among the first generation of artists to explore video art in the late 1960s.[2]

Hermine Freed
Hermine Freed in her work Two Faces
Born(1940-05-29)May 29, 1940
New York, New York
DiedNovember 21, 1998(1998-11-21) (aged 58)
New York, New York
NationalityAmerican
EducationCornell University (BA, 1961), New York University (MA, 1967)[1]
Known forpainting, video art
Notable work
Art Herstory (1974)
Spouse(s)James Ingo Freed

Life and work

Freed studied painting at Cornell University and New York University, where she taught starting from the late 1960s. In 1972 she became a professor for video art at the School of Visual Arts in New York.

She worked with colleague Andy Mann as a program editor for an NYU-sponsored series on art books for WNYC. Initially she filmed artist portraits, beginning with James Rosenquist, as well as Lee Krasner, Adolph Gottlieb, Robert Morris, Roy Lichtenstein, and Joyce Kozloff.[2] Although WNYC did not broadcast the portrait, she was not discouraged and produced a whole series.[3]

Apart from her documentary work she created videos that artistically negotiated female subjectivity and self-perception. In 1972 she participated in the exhibition Circuit: A Video Invitational at the Everson Museum of Art, curated by David Ross. Two Faces (1973) and Art Herstory (1974) are two of her most notable works.[4] At the time she was an artist-in-residence at the Television Lab at WNET.[3]

Solo exhibitions
  • 1981 Hermine Freed–Beads & Marbles - Leo Castelli Gallery, New York City, NY

Group exhibitions

References
  1. Marter, Joan M., ed (2011). The Grove Encyclopedia of Art. Oxford University Press.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
  2. "Hermine Freed". LANDMARKS. 2017-08-16. Retrieved 2020-12-29.
  3. "Hermine Freed | Video Data Bank". www.vdb.org. Retrieved 2020-12-29.
  4. Art-Herstory Hermine Freed Archived 2013-12-31 at the Wayback Machine
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