Sacred and Profane: Collage Artist Henry Freedman Assembles Life's Great Mysteries

MISSOULA INDEPENDENT
By Erika Fredrickson

“Drummer in Eden.” 2012, mixed media, courtesy of Henry Freedman.

MONTANA---Henry Freedman's Missoula home is nestled in a suburban neighborhood where everything seems like a variation on beige, contrasted only by the neatly cut green lawns. Inside the house Freedman shares with his wife, the scene appears much more radical. Like a cross between a museum and a curiosity shop. Freedman's current exhibit at the Montana Museum of Art and Culture, "Imagining New Worlds," showcases 104 collages. Freedman plays with the ideas and images of the sacred and profane. He was inspired by the penny arcade near his home in the Chelsea community of Boston. [link]