Jacob Freeman is a Canadian Painter who lives and works in Toronto, Ontario. Jacob Obtained his BFA from the University of Western Ontario in 2016. Jacob proudly shows in Toronto...
Jacob Freeman is a Canadian Painter who lives and works in Toronto, Ontario. Jacob Obtained his BFA from the University of Western Ontario in 2016. Jacob proudly shows in Toronto where he maintains a dedicated studio practice. Fascinated by painting’s long history, his work explores how the appropriation and transmutation of historical tropes and motifs can lead contemporary painting to untrodden aesthetic spaces. Jacob draws from the iconography of heavy metal; how the costume and gender performance endemic to the genre relate to Christianity and historical painting. The paintings also involve a love of the poetic structure of nature, and the seemingly endless possibilities for allegory and narrative that this subject matter offers.