Covers 3 Ultramarine collage and oil on panel The dripped surface of that

The dripped surface of that background is only seen through small openings

Each work in the series began its evolution as a scanned image of a Buddhist thangka—a spiritual painting of a Buddhist deity—which was then blurred and stretched until all that remained was a distilled image of color and form

The artist thinks of each painting as a landscape

and to focus

Covers 3 Ultramarine collage and oil on panel The dripped surface of thatEdition 2 20 This piece is part of a series titled "Covers", it pays homage to the graphic style of album covers, paperback book covers and media that permeated mid century popular culture. Her use of singular color accentuates the interplay of ground, foreground relationships. Freeman tries to merge random gestures and idiosyncratic shapes with a controlled and reductive abstract language. Aquatint is an intaglio printmaking technique, a variant of