CAROLE FREEMAN 

"These transporting portraits are beautiful meditations in paint... Each is rendered lovingly and intensely; the works impart that the chariot to greatness comes in many forms and that every artist is also one of these mighty figures, laboring with passion in private shadows. ... "

Jerry Saltz, New York Magazine, April 15, 2018

Carole Freeman is an American / Canadian contemporary figurative artist known for evocative portraits and narrative paintings of cultural, social, political, and personal significance. The subjects of her pictures are intensely rendered with a distinctive intimacy, whether they are celebrities, artists, historical or newsworthy figures, family, friends, or strangers. Freeman works in series from both life and varied source material such as personal photography and found photographs, film stills, mass media images, or famous artworks. Her paintings, produced with gestural brush marks and a command of drawing, are processed through close observation, empathy, and an instinctual understanding of the time in which she lives.

Freeman currently lives and works in Toronto, Canada.

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