About The Artist

Joseph Gregory Freedman was born in Los Angeles in 1950 and moved to Vancouver in 1970. Freedman, a tug and ferryboat skipper and self taught artist, had his first one-man show in 2002. His work has been featured on the CBC and in magazine and newspaper articles and he has had solo shows in Toronto, Vancouver and Victoria as well as museum shows in Austin, TX and Coos Bay, OR. Freedman is a member of the International Society of Marine Painters (ISMP) and the American Society of Maritime Artists (ASMA). His most recent award was the prestigious 2010 Port Award at the Coos Art Museum in Oregon.