With two solo exhibitions and the publication of a 16 page profile in a major Canadian arts and design magazine, this is a stellar year for Canadian artist, Carole Freeman. Freeman is known for exhibitions of celebrity portraits featured during the Toronto International Film Festival and a solo exhibition of 196 portraits at Edward Day Gallery, sourced from social media profile photos, and opened by the managing director of Facebook Canada. 

Freeman is known to Canadian arts institutions through her presentation of her art practice at The Canadian Arts Summit, The Banff Centre, as a member of the panel Making Art in the Age of New Media, moderated by Janet Carding, former Director CEO, Royal Ontario Museum. Paintings have been commissioned by film director Morgan Spurlock and for the collection of Lord and Lady Glentoran, Ireland. Her paintings have been exhibited in group exhibitions in Los Angeles along with Picasso, Klimt, Matisse, David Hockney, Elizabeth Peyton and more.

Freeman is a painter of people and narrative pictures. Her imagery combines clinical study, empathy, humour, and ironic juxtaposition, sometimes referencing Old and Modern Masters. Walnut Contemporary is pleased to present a collection of 18 paintings by this guest artist.

SELECTIONS 2012 - 2016 is curated from three bodies of work:

Something About Winnipeg (previewing November, 2016 solo exhibition in Winnipeg)

Winnipeg émigré, Carole Freeman, investigates and surrenders to her hometown's enduring significance and influence through a selection from 48 gray-scale portraits of prominent 'Peggers' (with a nod to Gerhard Richter's 48 Portraits), portraits of meaningful objects, a triptych about her father - surgeon and inventor, and a large history painting.

The Green Couch

Situated in an art studio, the green couch created curious tableaux and mise-en-scenes of teenage behaviours. The positions and gestures of present-day figures with historical artworks as backdrops generate both intended and accidental meanings.

Dear Art World

Salutation, term of endearment, price (monetary, psychological), or exclamation, Dear Art World is Freeman's pictorialization of the contemporary world of art in six parts: The Artists, The Dealers, The Critics, Collectors and Curators, Conversations, and The Fairs. The selections for this exhibition depict prominent art world figures as counterparts to sitters in historic master paintings, art fair attendees with contemporary art, a critic with his words, and a portrait of an iconic Canadian artist.

Ibérina Raquel Vilhena, Director & Curator