Collage on paper, 10.5 x 7.5 in.
Fred Free makes improvisational collages like a jazz musician plays the saxophone. You never know what you’re going to get. Cut-outs are combined with pencil sketches in unpredictable, free-flowing compositions that adopt the natural degradation of his vintage canvases. Each work is packed with layers of meaning, but manages to maintain its light and free essence.
Collage + pencil on paper, 6.5 x 8.5 in.
Collage + crayon on paper, 7 x 10 in.
i currently make collages. because of the immediacy, the materials, the scale, the minimalism, the imperfections, the finding, the collecting, the cutting, the pasting, and the desire to bring things together that were never meant to be together. to make statements. to make no statements.
Fred Free
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Collage + pencil + pen + crayon on paper, 8.5 x 11 in.
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Collage on paper, 9.5 x 7.5 in.
Fred Free was born in 1962 in Levittown, New Jersey. He is currently based in Boston, Massachusetts.
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