Soft Math (Cloud in The Eyes)
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Jonah Freeman
UPCOMING
6/9/2025
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4/1/2026
Jonah Freeman’s new solo work is like stepping into a fragmented dream made of technology, memory, and pattern. In Décor Slip, he moves away from the massive installations he’s known for with Justin Lowe and focuses on a more intimate, layered approach—mixing abstract painting, collage, and a super inventive film. The paintings are these glossy, mirror-backed pieces that feel both digital and handmade, while the film pulls from sci-fi, vintage media, and AI to tell this strange, poetic story about transformation. It’s all about perception, how we build and absorb images, and how fiction seeps into real life. Even though it’s a solo show, you still feel the world-building he’s famous for—just distilled in a sharper, more focused way.
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Jonah Freeman’s solo practice merges experimental narrative, material abstraction, and cinematic logic to explore the hidden infrastructures of contemporary life—technological, cultural, and perceptual.
His recent exhibition Décor Slip (2024) at 56 Henry marked a return to solo work after two decades of high-profile collaborations, presenting a suite of large-scale “brick paintings” on mirror-polished aluminum, an experimental essay film, and storyboard collages that operate like visual hieroglyphs for speculative cinema.
Freeman's work layers image-processing techniques, archival media, and physical materials to generate densely referential environments that challenge the viewer’s sense of space, scale, and narrative continuity. While distinct from the immersive installations he is known for alongside Justin Lowe, his solo output remains deeply concerned with the construction of alternate realities—this time through more introspective, medium-specific experimentation.
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