Marley Freeman in conversation with David Max Horowitz

Marley Freeman
in conversation with
David Max Horowitz
Assistant Curator at the Guggenheim
at Karma, New York
Tuesday, June 10, 5–6 pm

Karma
549 West 26th Street
New York

Karma presents a conversation between artist Marley Freeman and assistant curator at the Guggenheim David Max Horowitz, on the occasion of Freeman’s exhibition no when at 549 West 26th Street, New York, on view from May 29–July 18, 2025.

Marley Freeman uses oils as well as hand-mixed gesso and acrylic to create meticulous, psychologically charged color fields. Working primarily in the medium of painting, Freeman studies the ways in which the material “wants to perform,” resulting in multisensorial investigations of color and light. Her distinct vocabulary of forms is made up of brushy strokes, color washes, and shapes that freely transform across the picture plane. The influence of the material history of textile production on the artist is evident in her close attention to the textural subtleties of her paints and her reverence for their surface effects. Freeman lives between New York and Massachusetts.

David Max Horowitz joined the Guggenheim Museum’s curatorial department in 2015 and specializes in postwar art and the histories and legacies of abstraction. He was the curator of Jean Dubuffet: Ardent Celebration at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (2022) and Marking Time: Process in Minimal Abstraction (2019–20), and was cocurator of R. H. Quaytman + ×, Chapter 34 (2018–19). Additionally, he was part of the curatorial team on Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future (2018–19), Agnes Martin (2016–17), Guggenheim Collection: Brancusi (2017–20), and Guggenheim Collection: Early Modernism (2016–17). His writing has been featured in the catalogues for Kandinsky’s Universe: Geometric Abstraction in the 20th Century (2025), Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910–1930 (2024), Hilma af Klint (2024), Alex Katz: Gathering (2022), Joan Mitchell (2021), and Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future (2018). He works closely on the stewardship of the collection and is one of the organizing curators for the Young Collectors Council. He holds a BA in English language and literature from the University of Maryland, College Park, and an interdisciplinary MLA from Johns Hopkins University.