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ZENITH COMMUNITY ARTS FOUNDATION est. 2000
Dedicated to fostering creative partnerships that use art to benefit community

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Please join us for two exciting events

THE FREEDOM PLACE COLLECTION EXHIBITION
in Rochester, New York at Monroe Community College

"Morning of the Red Bird' by Romare Bearden

"Morning of the Red Bird", 1975, collage and mixed medium by Romare Bearden

A Marvelous Exhibition of Rarely Seen Works by African-American Artists: Romare Bearden, Benny Andrews, Alma Thomas, Richard Yarde and Robert Freeman

Show Dates: January 24 - February 27, 2011

Mercer Gallery, Monroe Community College

Mercer Gallery, 1000 E. Henrietta Road, Rochester, NY 14623-5701

Building 12-114, North Atrium, Fine Arts Building, tel.585-292-2021

Opening Reception: Wednesday, Feb. 2, 7:00 - 9:00 pm
Gallery Talk by Robert Freeman: Wednesday, Feb. 2, 4:00 pm

First Friday Event: Friday, Feb. 4, 7:00 - 9:00 pm

Zenith Community Arts Foundation (ZCAF) unveiled the Freedom Place Collection to critical acclaim in fall 2007 at Zenith Gallery in Washington, DC and has since taken the exhibition to Meridian International House and the University of New England. The historic collection is owned by Washington residents Stuart Marshall Bloch and Ambassador Julia Chang Bloch who amassed the body of work over a 35-year period, and now wish to share it with the public.

In conjunction with The Freedom Place Exhibition, the Zenith Community Arts will also showcase paintings from Robert Freeman's "Love Letters" series. The paintings are for sale and represent Freeman's more recent work. PRESS RELEASE

Margery E. Goldberg

The Zenith Community Arts Foundation

Cordially invite you to
a cocktail reception for Robert Freeman's
new series of paintings and prints

"LOVE LETTERS"

Thursday, February 3 , 6:00 - 8:00 pm
at

The Brio Grill, 3400 Monroe Ave. Pittsford Colony Plaza,

Rochester, New York 14618

tel. 585-586-7000

www.briobistro.com

Mr. Freeman will be available to meet and discuss his new work

and his work in "The Freedom Place Collection".

Robert Freeman is one of the two living artists in the exhibition "The Freedom Place Collection" on view thru Thursday, February 27, 2011 at Monroe Community College's Mercer Gallery.

Robert Freeman's art is widely collected and has been exhibited at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Newport Art Musuem, and in galleries in New York, New England, Washington DC and beyond. He received his BFA and MFA degrees from Boston University, and settled in that area where he is a respected artist and respected teacher. Freeman was artist-in-residence at Noble and at Greenough School from 1981 until his retirement, and a lecturer and instructor at Harvard from 1988 to 1994.

Mr. Freeman is much admired and collected for his bold, colorful brushwork and figurative paintings of well-heeled African-Americans at sophistocated gatherings. Characterized by overlapping shapes, energized lines and strong gesture, his subjects crowd to the front and edges of his canvases. VIEW EXHIBIT

For more information call:
Margery Goldberg, Zenith Gallery, 202-783-2963, margery@zenithgallery.com

Media: Judy Keyserling, 202-726-1627, jkeyserling@verizon.net

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