Jacob Freeman: Feature Exhibition
Past exhibition
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Vancouver based artist Jacob Freeman returns to Abbozzo Gallery with a show in our Feature Gallery and Viewing Room throughout April and into early May. Jacob’s works are playful imaginations reappropriating motifs, figures, techniques and tropes of historical painting using contemporary popular American culture iconography, painting images and subjects he sees in magazines, on TV, in movies or in his readings over disparate backgrounds.
In Quarter Crush we see the Dupont Racing Nascar hat in front of an anonymous suburban home, similar to Patricia Street, named after a street he lived on in university in which a modern cowboy stands in front of a house that looks much like the one he lived in while completing his BFA from Western University. Long fascinated and perhaps troubled by the mythos of western masculinity and aggression, Jacob explores popular symbols in his paintings such as Runners, finds the repeating the visage of John Travolta as a compositional tool, similar to the barking pitbulls we see in Keto Diet and 5 Years.
Utilizing a smaller canvas and paper size for this particular show, Jacob has created narrative paintings that can be read like short poems with vast possibilities for meaning and interpretation -
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