SEPTEMBER 2008 (0
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Sculpture a new ‘Focus’ on
campus
A new freeform, rainbow-colored sculpture
greets visitors near the front entrance to Cal State San
Marcos.
“Focus,” by local artist Robert
Freeman, was unveiled in a dedication ceremony Aug. 18.
The project was sponsored by an anonymous donor. Those
who have studied the piece say they see a variety of objects
including a toucan, a rabbit, even a couple of dancers. But
Freeman maintains the work is not intended to represent
anything in particular.
“Everything in mainstream culture
calls for logic, meaning, purpose and precision. But this is
beyond that,” he says in a university news release.
“There’s no message here. I’m not trying to
say anything. I’d like everyone to interpret it in their
own way.”
Born on the Rincon Reservation in San Diego
County, Freeman’s roots include Luiseño and Sioux
as well as English and French. Although he never attended art
school, his artistic interests developed as a child growing up
in a poor neighborhood
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of government housing in Vallejo.
Freeman’s work encompasses realism,
abstractionism, cubism, impressionism, portraiture, cartoons
and murals. He has won numerous National Indian Art Awards in
oil painting, watercolor, pen and ink, and sculpture. His
public works include a commemorative Seal for the State of
California embedded on the Capital steps in Sacramento, murals
at the Perris Museum in Perris, as well as sculptures in
Capistrano and Santa Fe Springs. His artwork has been exhibited
at the Riverside Museum; University of Vermillion, S.D.;
Shriver Gallery, Kansas City; and Sioux Museum, Rapid City,
Iowa.
— Cal State San Marcos
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