Polyester slip, wool skirt, white polyester blouse, tin can, 2024
Fremderman discards the tin’s original edible innards—fish or chicken products—in favour of assemblages created from fragmented garments, accessories, and notions, resembling homespun character portraits.
Bea Fremderman is a New York-based visual artist. She received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2012. Her current research centres around feelings of global dread. Recent solo exhibitions include Weeds Compared to Flowers, John Michael Kohler Arts Center (Sheboygan); Stranger Man, Atlanta Contemporary (New York); How to Do Nothing with Nobody All Alone by Yourself, Shoot The Lobster (New York); Barren Island, Prairie (Chicago); and Office Space, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco). Select group exhibitions include Gallery 12.26 (Dallas); Morán Morán (Los Angeles); Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago); and Arsenal Contemporary Art, april april, and The New Museum (New York).