Angela Ross-Freitag (°1968, United States) creates mixed media artworks, installations, mixed media artworks and conceptual artworks. By focusing on techniques and materials, Ross-Freitag considers making art a craft which is executed using clear formal rules and which should always refer to social reality. Her mixed media artworks are characterized by the use of everyday objects in an atmosphere
of middleclass mentality in which recognition plays an important role. By applying abstraction, she creates intense personal moments masterfully created by means of rules and omissions, acceptance and refusal, luring the viewer round and round in circles. Her works are notable for their perfect finish and tactile nature. This is of great importance and bears witness to great craftsmanship. By taking daily life as subject matter while commenting on the everyday aesthetic of middle class values, she often creates work using creative game tactics, but these are never permissive. Play is a serious matter: during the game, different rules apply than in everyday life and even everyday objects undergo transubstantiation. The results are deconstructed to the extent that meaning is shifted and possible interpretation becomes multifaceted. Angela Ross-Freitag currently lives and works in Manassas, VA.
