2021

Devour the Land: War and American Landscape Photography since 1970
Harvard Art Museums, Special Exhibitions Gallery
Cambridge, Massachusetts
September 17, 2021–January 16, 2022
Devour the Land shines a light on the unexpected and often hidden consequences of militarism on habitats and well-being in the United States. Featuring approximately 160 photographs across 6 thematic groupings, the exhibition reveals the nationwide footprint of the U.S. military, the wide network of industries that support and supply its work, and the impacts of—and responses to—this activity.
How do photographs portray environmental damage that can be difficult to see, much less identify and measure? By posing such questions, the exhibition provides visitors a space to consider our current challenges and shared future. At the same time, the works on view also suggest how preparations for war and the aftermath can sometimes lead to surprising instances of ecological regeneration and change.
Following a trajectory that originates in the Civil War era, Devour the Land begins with the 1970s, a dynamic period for both environmental activism and photography. From there, the focus expands to our contemporary moment.
The 60 artists showcased in the exhibition bring a variety of practices and approaches to their work. They range from professional photographic artists and photojournalists to lesser known and emerging photographers; they include Robert Adams, Federica Armstrong, Robert Del Tredici, Joshua Dudley Greer, Terry Evans, Lucas Foglia, Andrew Freeman, Sharon Gilbert, Ashley Gilbertson, Peter Goin, David T. Hanson, Zig Jackson, Stacy Kranitz, Dorothy Marder, Susan Meiselas, Richard Misrach, Barbara Norfleet, Mark Power, Sheila Pree Bright, Jeff Rich, Sim Chi Yin, Sharon Stewart, Robert Toedter, Phil Underdown, and Will Wilson.
Organized by the Harvard Art Museums. Curated by Makeda Best, Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography, Harvard Art Museums.

Museum Acquisition
Harvard Art Museums acquires 2 photographs by Andrew Freeman for their permanent collection.
2021

Golden Hour: California Photography from LACMA
Lancaster Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, California, January 23 – May 9, 2021
Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, California, June 5 – September 26, 2021
Vincent Price Art Museum at LACity College, Manterey Park, California, October 16, 2021 – February 5, 2022
Art Gallery at Cal State Northridge, Northridge, California, February 19 – April 30, 20222
In Golden Hour, over 70 artists and three photography collectives offer an aesthetic approach to understanding the complexities and histories of California. These images, gathered from the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, have come to define the myths, iconographies, and realities of this unique state. Pairing masters of photography with experimental practitioners in a range of lens-based media that includes photo sculpture, vernacular, and video work, the selection blurs the boundaries of the tropes that formed a California identity.
With works ranging from the early 1900s to present day, Golden Hour is neither a didactic history of the state nor an inclusive tale of photographic history, but rather artists’ impressions of the state of being in, and being influenced by, California.
This exhibition was organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in collaboration with the Lancaster Museum of Art and History; Riverside Art Museum; Vincent Price Art Museum at East Los Angeles College; and California State University, Northridge, Art Galleries.

2017

Why We Talk About Art The Day Before This Inauguration
Visiting Artist Lecture by Andrew Freeman
University of California, Santa Cruz
January 19th, 12pm
California Institute of the Arts Associate Dean, School of Art
Faculty, Photography & Media
UCSC Alumni

2016

On the Distant Horizon
BLAM Projects
Los Angeles, CA
August 7 – 28, 2016
Curated by photographer Joe Wolek, On the Distant Horizon explores notions of mirage — something that is simultaneously there and not there. Focusing on interpretations of chimera, delusion, hallucination, specter; a potential figment of the imagination; a castle in the air. Artists: Nadege Monchera Baer, Dani Dodge, Andrew Freeman, Todd Gray, Ben Jackel, Michael Isenberg, Alanna Marcelletti, Hanna Mattes, Jesus Max, Joey Morris, Ruben Ortiz-Torres, Julia Paull, Max Rain, Christopher Rauschenberg, Shelby Roberts, Amy Russell, Mitchell Syrop, Rueben Ortiz-Torres, Augusta Wood, Kim Ye, and Kent Young.

Facts Make the Difference
Films by Lauren Steinberg, Eve Lafountain, Andrew Freeman, Skylar Kelley, Alia Malley, Tyler Sharkey, Anna Wittenberg, Meital Yaniv
Echo Park Film Center
Los Angeles, CA
Thursday January 28, 2016 at 8pm

2015

L.A. Stories
as a gift for newcomers
Part 1 / 2015
Shown at Lokale, Copenhagen.
Organized by Joanne Logstrup and Pia Ronicke.
Book by Ines Schaber

DOUBLE BIND: Book launch & conversation with Leigh Ledare, Rhea Anastas, Andrew Freeman and Liz Kotz
Thursday, November 5, 2015 at 7pm
The Box
Los Angeles, CA

Book Release
Las Cienegas: 06.18.2009 – 12.17.2011
Rosamund Felsen Gallery
Los Angeles, CA
October 11, 2015
A cloth-bound, hard cover book documenting the history of Las Cienegas Projects, an artist-run project space in Los Angeles operating between 2009-2011. Opening its doors during the peak of the Great Recession, Las Cienegas Projects singularly bridged the wide-ranging art communities and diverse practices of Los Angeles, serving, in the words of artist, scholar, and educator Charles Gaines, as “an alternative to the alternative space”.
Designed by Jennifer Rider in conjunction with LCP’s founders Amy Thoner and Steven Hull, the 416 page book serves as an archive of the gallery’s 61 exhibitions from its main curatorial program, including extensive photographic documentation in full color and the original press release texts. Opening the book is an introduction by Los Angeles-based writer Susan Morgan, followed by the Charles Gaines essay, “Las Cienegas Projects: Art, Egalitarianism, and the Well-being of Artists,” which critically examines the history of alternative spaces while contextualizing LCP’s unique place within that history.

Visiting Artist
Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
April 6 – May 9, 2015

2014

SOMETHING LIKE HOME MOVIES
Echo Park Film Center
November 9, 2014
Three Los Angeles based artists premiere new and in-progress works exploring similar themes that are reminiscent of home movies. Lee Anne Schmitt works in film, writing, photography, and performance to create work that elevates the everyday elements of American life towards the level of cultural ritual. Andrew Freeman is a photographer, writer, filmmaker and occasional curator. He has exhibited both nationally and internationally. Nick Flessa is a filmmaker, musician and visual artist. All three will show new works and will be in attendance for discussion.

“Not North,” Essay by Andrew Freeman
Published in EXPOSURE,  journal produced by the Society for Photographic Education
Fall 2014 Issue 47:2
read here: Not North

No Push: New Work by Andrew Freeman
University Art Gallery, Redlands, CA
January 14 – February 8, 2014
Opening Reception: January 15, 4:30 – 6:30pm
University Art Gallery
University of Redlands
1200 E. Colton Ave.
Redlands, CA 92373
— With the accompanying publication This Year’s Irony, produced by >Golden Spike Press, designed by Columba Cruz Elton

2013

10×10 American Photobooks
10x10photobooks.org
Limited First Edition of 500.
Text in English and Japanese.
152 pages, 7.25 x 10 inches.
ISBN: 978-0-9896888-0-2
In association with International Center of Photography Library, Photobook Facebook Group, and Tokyo Institute of Photography
Edited by Matthew Carson, Russet Lederman, and Olga Yatskevich

Construction / Deconstruction: Defining Architectural Photography
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
May 4, 2013–August 18, 2013
In the 19th century, the built environment served as one of the best subjects for early photographers—one that could remain motionless for the required lengthy exposures. Architecture as a recurring subject was well-suited to the capacity of photography to document facts and capture pure form, shape, and shadow. In addition, architectural imagery highlights the intimate human experience of buildings—their creation, use, and decline—making manifest our shared histories and the photographic pathos of a still life meant to stand beyond our lifetime.
Coinciding with Modern Architecture in L.A., a city-wide exhibition program organized by the J. Paul Getty Museum, this exhibition turns our focus to architecture in transition, in either the nascent stages of construction or deconstruction. Structures once viewed as solid and impassive read here as more abstract entities, with layers and complexities writ by photography. The exhibition includes work by Thomas J. Annan, Eugène Atget, Lewis Baltz, Richard Barnes, Manuel Carrillo, Lois Conner, Stéphane Couturier,  William Current, Andrew Freeman, Simryn Gill, Grant Mudford, Simon Norfolk, and James Welling.

Art Press Magazine
May 2013, No. 400, Paris, France
“Los Angeles and Photography”
Interview with Andrew Freeman by Yann Perreau

2012

In Our Sights
Machine Project, Los Angeles, CA
October 5, 2012
Conversations and Performances by:
Andrew Freeman
Gabie Strong
Nathan Lam Vuong
Mireya Lucio
Arjuna Neuman
& TED Talks
In Our Sights is an experiment in pushing the documentary form into a more personal and intimate space. While the document and the archive is still important, as is the research that underpins the re-telling of any story, the delivery of this information will be questionably unmediated. Or, at least, less mediated than in a traditional documentary film.
In Our Sights borrows from the oral tradition, and invites the audience into an installation where artists will perform memories and engage with you in conversations. So that you become as much a part of the re-telling of this story as the story itself.
The future starts in Wendover, Utah. It was here that the bombardiers trained to drop the atomic bombs on Japan. This training facility was also training the world to see and experience differently, it prepared us without us knowing, for a new subjectivity. The immaculate conception of the nuclear bomb, with its Trinity test and press conferences in Japan, ushered in the era of the radioactive sublime. Soon we would all become disciples of technology as an ideology, a theology and the only thing left to believe in.
For In Our Sights Machine Project will be converted into a version of the Wendover bombardier training facility, where bombsights will be cut into the floor to view slide-projected images in the basement below. Inside of this environment Andrew Freeman and Gabie Strong will field conversations and re-tell stories about the contradictions inherent to the armed forces as the last national socialized collective. For example Andy writes:
“In the most simple, persistent conflicted conversation I have with myself I wonder why I can still pick out the sound of a military aircraft and simultaneously think “death from above” and there goes my (a) father.”
Downstairs in the target range Mireya Lucio and Nathan Lam Vuong will each conduct one-on-one performances that weave together personal memories, fragments and stories key to their identity formation inside and against the larger forces of history, ideology and technology.

Visiting Artist & Lecturer
Zurich University of the Arts (ZHDK), Switzerland
May 2012

2011

Book Presentation and Panel Discussion on Mario Pfeifer’s “Reconsidering”
LAXART, Los Angeles, CA
April 10, 2011
Panelists: Allan Sekula, Catherine Taft, Mario Pfeifer
Moderator: Andrew Freeman
LA><ART is proud to host Mario Pfeifer: Reconsidering The new Industrial Parks near Irvine, California by Lewis Baltz, 1974. In a panel discussion – for the book’s  first presentation in the US – speakers Allan Sekula, Catherine Taft and Mario Pfeifer will discuss possible answers to the inherent questions and furthermore investigate notions of Representation / Reproduction / Realism in these works, paired with critical observations of labor depiction within socio-political and conceptual art practices in the 1970’s until today. Andrew Freeman will be moderating the discussion.

American Quarterly
American Studies Association, John Hopkins University
Volume 63, Number 1, March 2011
“New Topographics”: Locating Epistemological Concerns in the American Landscape
Written by Wendy Cheng