"Greetings
2000" card to friends (14 x 4 1/2 in, 2000)THE ART of JACQUELINE FREEDMAN
New York
(20 October 1925 - )
These
are artworks or photos of artworks given by Jackie to my
mother, Florence
Laikind Nelson. It is not a representative portfolio and this is not
an official or sanctioned site.
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Lacking official titles, we will identify these as (left) Zigs and (right) as Quadrants.
Jackie Peller Freedman (right) and her sister Helen Peller Melnick lived across the backyard from my mother (Florence Laikind Nelson, left) in the 1920s and have been playmates and friends for life. The Laikind's two-family house at 8655 20th Ave, Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, hosted the kids and their friends as they went to college, met to listen to new recordings, argued over history with Henry Bamford Parkes, and invited at least one of their professors to lecture them on literature. Photo: after visiting Jackie's studio in early 1984, my parents and Jackie went down to an avant garde "installation" in the same building, where my father took the picture above.
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Jackie in her studio, early 1984
WEBMASTER's NOTE:
Friends of Jackie are invited to contribute further works for display.
You know you have Jackie photos somewhere -- find them! Write to jerry-va at removethistext speakeasy.net or phone seven oh three 448 4543. Photos of her paintings can be added even if they have a color cast, are too dark or are not "square on". To tell someone about this page, send them to
florencesart.notlong.com where they will find links to Florence's artist friends, as well as Florence's own art.
--jerry
Jeremiah Nelson
Florence & Gil's son
Rev 18Feb2010
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Click either image to enlarge.
Lacking official titles, we will identify these as (left) Zigs and (right) as Quadrants.
"Artwork from Art Forum",
acrylic paint on Artforum Magazine, 10 1/2 x 21 in, 1980
acrylic paint on Artforum Magazine, 10 1/2 x 21 in, 1980
Jackie
was one of the drivers behind the 1980's emergence of painted
books and other small repainted objects on the art scene. She
did
at least two painted-over Art Forum magazines -- doubtless that
magazine's most direct support of the arts ever. Both were
done
in 1980, and one was chosen by the Center for Book Arts for a 1984
exhibit at The New York Public Library.
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"Divided Spaces" (ca 1984)
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(left) Blue Arcs.
(right) Busy (my titles).
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"Divided Spaces" (ca 1984)
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6 Squares.
(6 1/4H x 10 3/4W, pastel, 1981; taken by Robin
& Jerry Nelson)
(left) Dual city facades on river
(about 10 in high; taken by Lydia Nelson).
(right) Elevated subway exit booth (about 8" wide; taken by Lydia Nelson).
Painted photo collage. (perhaps late 1970s?)
(right) Elevated subway exit booth (about 8" wide; taken by Lydia Nelson).
Painted photo collage. (perhaps late 1970s?)
Photo: Gil Nelson
Jackie Peller Freedman (right) and her sister Helen Peller Melnick lived across the backyard from my mother (Florence Laikind Nelson, left) in the 1920s and have been playmates and friends for life. The Laikind's two-family house at 8655 20th Ave, Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, hosted the kids and their friends as they went to college, met to listen to new recordings, argued over history with Henry Bamford Parkes, and invited at least one of their professors to lecture them on literature. Photo: after visiting Jackie's studio in early 1984, my parents and Jackie went down to an avant garde "installation" in the same building, where my father took the picture above.
Click to enlarge
Jackie in her studio, early 1984
WEBMASTER's NOTE:
Friends of Jackie are invited to contribute further works for display.
You know you have Jackie photos somewhere -- find them! Write to jerry-va at removethistext speakeasy.net or phone seven oh three 448 4543. Photos of her paintings can be added even if they have a color cast, are too dark or are not "square on". To tell someone about this page, send them to
florencesart.notlong.com where they will find links to Florence's artist friends, as well as Florence's own art.
--jerry
Jeremiah Nelson
Florence & Gil's son
Rev 18Feb2010
return to top return to Florence's art home for the whole Website