Alex Freedman
Alex Freedman is a co-founder of Freedman Fitzpatrick Gallery in Los Angeles and a recent Booth MBA graduate. Known for her dynamic career path, she began in academia, transitioned to writing and traveling, and then established a notable art gallery in LA and Paris. Alex has played a significant role in building the careers of emerging artists, with their work featured in esteemed venues like the Venice Biennial, MoMA, and the Whitney.
Recommendations
This novel by Muriel Spark details a woman hunting for a man whose task is not to be her lover, but her murderer, speaking volumes to the complexity of women’s sexual liberation post-#metoo.
A two-act play by Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) about a white woman who murders a black man on the New York subway after he refuses her seductions, using the subway as a metaphor to address a lineage of Karens and the ghost ship myth of the ‘Flying Dutchman’.
A collection of stories by Izumi Suzuki, a pioneering Japanese science fiction writer, tackling imperialism and gender politics with speculative freshness.
A book by Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton that serves as a great DJ history primer, reissued in 2006, which uses language delightfully antecedent to chopped & screwed digital music vernaculars.