Jane Freilicher: New Publication

March 2, 2023
  • This fully-illustrated softcover catalogue is published on the occasion of Jane Freilicher: Abstractions on view at Kasmin from March 2...

    This fully-illustrated softcover catalogue is published on the occasion of Jane Freilicher: Abstractions on view at Kasmin from March 2 – April 22, 2023. The book features an introduction by Mary Gabriel, author of Ninth Street Women and an essay by writer and scholar Erin Kimmel, along with an updated artist chronology.The exhibition presents a group of paintings in degrees of abstraction, realized by Freilicher between 1958 and 1962, a period of great inventiveness when the artist was spending stretches of time in Long Island but had yet to establish a studio there. The series marks a crucial moment of discovery and focus for Freilicher, who went on to integrate the freedom, fluidity, and confidence developed during this period into her more recognizable still lifes and landscapes of later decades.

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  • About the Artist

    Jane Freilicher
    Photo by John Jonas Gruen.

    Jane Freilicher

    Jane Freilicher pursued a distinctive painterly realism for over sixty years. The artist’s work has gained increasing recognition for her unique vision from critics, collectors, and generations of younger painters. Freilicher is most noted for her sweeping Long Island landscapes seen from her Water Mill studio window, and her dazzling views of downtown Manhattan, often juxtaposed with still life objects in the foreground. Michael Kimmelman of The New York Times has called her work “the essence of serious painting, deceptively modest, steadfast and fluent."

    Freilicher came of age in the era of Abstract Expressionism at the center of a group of influential artists and poets, including painters Willem de Kooning, Rudy Burckhardt, Joan Mitchell, Larry Rivers, Fairfield Porter, and Alex Katz, and poets John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, and Frank O’Hara.

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