Charleston

In a landmark urban renewal effort, city planners, developers, and architects partnered to commission this 120' mural on a concrete DOT wall in downtown Charleston.
Located at King Street and Fishburne, next to Recovery Room.

While in Charleston, I painted this mural in West Ashley with the support of ChArt Outdoor Initiative.

Located on Alycia Alley behone Gene's Haufbrau.

Living Walls: East Atlanta Village

I painted this mural on the side of Tomatillo's in East Atlanta Village.

Miami Art Basel 2013

Pictures from this year's Miami Art Basel trip! All of these are in the Wynwood District, painted over a two-week period in late-November through Early December. Thanks so much to Danielle Brutto, Jon Graham, Josh and Tracy Kohn, Ishmael, the whole Heineken Mural Project crew and artists, Jorge Moreno, Living Walls, Samson Contompasis of Marketplace Gallery, Fountain Art Fair, and everyone else who helped make these possible.

On NW 25th between 3rd and 4th.

On NE 20th between Biscayne and North Miami Ave.

Courtyard mural installation at Fountain Art Fair, collaboration with Pixel Pancho, Never 2501, and Ever.

Courtyard mural installation for Fountain Art Fair, 8'x 8' latex on wood panel.

Exterior collaboration on Fountain Art Fair with Jaz, Elian, Cope2, Pixel Pancho, Pastel, LNY, Never 2501, and Ever.

On the way home, our group stopped in Jacksonville, FL to paint pieces on the outside of Cork Art Collective. Here is my part:

TRI-COLOR: a coloring book by molly rose freeman

I love books, and after seeing a zine show put together in part by Laura Calle, the Director of Programming for Living Walls, I started looking for ways to make one of my own. It began as just a hand-made book of my small drawings (I have a lot of these since I don't sketch--they're basically studies, experiments on fitting pieces together in different ways.) But then I remembered what I used to do in St. Louis at the middle school where I worked as an after school assistant. The program I was working for had very little money for supplies but they asked me to run an art class three times a week, so I started making drawings that I could photocopy in the office for my kids to color. I won't say I won over everyone with these, but there was a little group that would sit at a round table in the cafeteria, surrounded by tons of noise and action, and they would color page after page and tune out everything else. I realized how important that had been for me when I was in school, and how I have built my work around it--the desire to focus intensely on something without self-consciousness. So I'm offering up this book for whoever wants to color and lose themselves in the repetition of something. It's a good way to ground yourself, even in the midst of total chaos.

 

Every copy of TRI-COLOR features 16 pages of drawings and is independently printed and bound by hand with thread. You can buy them here for $10.

 

 

Sample pages:

"love triangle"

"love triangle," new limited edition prints (run of fifty) now available on my shop. 

this comes from a series i've been working on inspired by personal relationships--how people become intertwined and adapt to those close to them.

new website + amazing crystal video

business first: my newly redesigned website is up. www.mollyrosefreeman.com.

every couple of weeks i go on internet research binges, and most of the time i'm looking for what's new and good in the world of microscope imagery. today i found this gem which is worth the full 10 minutes if you're in the mood to focus on something other than what you were doing. natural psychadelia in action!!

meanstreaks

last month i got a gift of some white meanstreaks, finally putting them to use:

"i dreamt about you years ago and yesterday," marking stick on paper, 22" x 30", 2012

from my sketchbook

a few drawings from a much larger stash: