CAROLE FREEMAN: Something About Winnipeg

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Carole Freeman, "48 Portraits, Ivan Eyre," nd

Something About Winnipeg, at Gurevich Fine Art, opening Friday, November 4, 2016, running until November 25 is, in the words of former art critic for the Globe and Mail, Gary Michael Dault, Freeman’s “epic undertaking…the Summa of a city… the jewel in the crown”.(1) Her subjects, from the everyday (a cinnamon bun, nose warmers), to the unexpected (a pirate, a thief, a Mountie, a princess), enchant, and populate Freeman’s imaginative, capricious, and poignant retelling of historical and personal stories of her hometown. From the monumental, to scaled down moments, Winnipeg people, still life, and landscape, Freeman’s paintings express both singular allegories and one continuous metaphorical narrative that raise questions of time, place, and personage, with some answers in cryptic, playful, or emotive titles.