Collaborations
2018- present
HIBISCUS TV collaboration with Amy Kaps.
Hibiscus TV is a convergence of two artistic minds.
Performance/Installation artist Amy Kaps and Painter/Filmmaker Kaye Freeman upload to their eponymous YouTube channel on an irregular basis from their downtown LA studio.
Join them on their artistic adventures as they ponder, dance, and paint taking art to its logical, and simultaneously, absurd level with an irreverent attitude of creative abandon.
Each video and talk show they produce is an amalgam of their mutual artistic notions leading to frontiers yet to be explored, mountains yet to be scaled and depths beyond the Mariana Trench of understanding.
They are in the process of creating seven short films based on their initial collaborative project, The Seven Winds, depicting the elements. So far, they have completed “Wood” which recently premiered at the Comeback festival held at Art Share LA.
HIBISCUS TV will appear live as part of the Heidi Duckler Ebb and Flow festival in the State Park downtown LA on June 25 from 3-5 pm.
2021
WOLF
A collective of four artists, Freeman, Amy Kaps , Aska Irie and Tomoaki Shibata. performed live in August at NOMAD Torrence Art Museum.
2018
Turn and Face the Strange
Natasha Dennerstein’s poems are not fragile. They are often for the thick-skinned, and yet they are precious in their peculiarity and pungency.
They reconstruct our understanding of life—the mundane, exhausting,
and forever evolving history of a self as we find it at any given time, in any given place. The poems in this collection find impossible moments of hope and celebrate the nuances that are all too frequently overlooked or discarded, while reconciling with the excitation of newness. Here, the existence of each and every narrative or subject are suspended in super-hot colors, torn between oil stick and graphite as rendered by Los Angeles
artist Kaye Freeman. What began as a symbiotic overlap in content and expression became a journey all its own. The artistic sediments of Dennerstein’s and Freeman’s work permeate each other’s brains, unknowingly asking questions and finding answers. Their relationship is one of sustenance. Neither follows in the other’s footsteps but rather they dwell, intuitively, inside the spacious landscape of creativity. Through pigment and ink, they map femininity around the world.
Dennerstein’s words tell the story of the places which Freeman colors on her canvas bring to life the memories and shock of being thrown into a foreign situation. Freeman’s paintings and drawings reverberate Dennerstein’s poems in harmony, extending the experience of reading into a way of seeing. When taken together as they are here, I consider their collaborations as performance. Their artistic treatment of emotional
struggle, the give and take of instability that arises in unknown places illuminates another side of the self.
In essence, the partnership between the two is a coalescence.
Wren Miller
