Artwork on Paper
Mylo Freeman is a Dutch-Afr.American writer and artist whose autonomous work is characterized by her love for color, fluid line and a strong emphasis on representation. Alongside her acclaimed career as a children'sbook writer and illustrator, she also develops independent artworks that explore identity, diversity and the epressive power of the human figure. Freeman's art practice highlights her commitment to creating inclusive visual narratives and to pursuing a personal, intuitive artistic language.
foto: Gertie Jaquet
Coming up: 15 july- 9 aug.
group exhibition during World Pride Week
Kunstruim at Jodenbreestraat 25 Amsterdam (12.00-18.00)
70/150 cm waterinks
75/100 cm waterinks.acrylics
glicee print 50/70 cm
'The face is the most beautiful landscape.'
In referring to the face as a landscape, this collection resists reduction-refusing to flatten identity into surface, or surface into symbol.
Historically underserved by a visual language built around white skin, Black portraiture demands it's own attention value, warmth and contrast.
Freeman paints Black faces she missed growing up. Raised in a predominantly white environment, she is now reclaiming that absence. Her work is an act of visibility- a celebration of identity, presence , and belonging.The beauty, complexity and presence of Black identity.
75/150 cm waterink, pastel, bleach
70/100 cm waterinks/pastel/bleach
75/150 cm waterinks/salts/pastels
"The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover.
If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the the things you don't see."
James Baldwin
Exhibition portraits of James Baldwin at ITA 2025
Books
I am not your Mammy
project in progress...
The historical mammy embodied a system in which Black women were forced to care for their slave-owners children while being denied the right to raise their own. Freeman also explores the grey area's within this imposed motherhood: The complex emotions , the unequal power relations and the different ways the women themselves may have perceived their roles.
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All works are on paper using materials like waterinks, bleach, pastels and acrylics.
75/150 cm
