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Doug Freed
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DOUG FREED
Doug Freed is the former director of The Daum Museum of Contemporary Art on the campus of State Fair Community College in Sedalia, Missouri. His studio is a two-floor, 1871 building listed on the national registry, located in the historic downtown.
Sedalia, Missouri is in the center of the state, where the western prairie meets the Ozark highlands. To the west is prairie, to the north is oak and hickory-covered hills and the Missouri River. To the south is the Lake of the Ozarks and the Truman Lake. This environment affords him an unending diversity of landscape.
His paintings consist of two or more panels. One panel is landscape imagery. The other adjacent panel is often an atmospheric void where vestiges of the recognizable landscape are found.
He tries to capture the mystical light found in natural atmospheric effects: the haze in the distance on humid summer days, the overcast gloom of winter skies, the softness of landscape bathed in fog, and the quieting mood of approaching darkness.
Artist Statement
The compositions are about ambiguities of form and void, foreground and background, and surface and deep space. Also, they are about ambiguities of associational images and pure abstraction, referential, and non-referential structures. My sources are often ancient architecture. I am fascinated by archaeological and architectural spaces, particularly their sense of mystery. It is this mystical and mysterious quality I seek in my painted structures. I do this by softly modulating color tone and value to create illusions of emanating light, where one's eyes and spirit are invited to linger.
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