Jacob Freeman: In Violet Light
January 19 - February 26, 2023

RAINRAIN is pleased to announce In Violet Light, the solo exhibition of the Canadian artist Jacob Freeman. Borrowing its title from the rock band The Tragically Hip’s 2002 album, In Violet Light presents Freeman’s recent paintings, with which he has built an imagined world - a liminal space where ghosts, floating wearables, avatars, monsters, and side characters inhabit. Freeman carries out enduring allegorical experiments: taking painting as his tool and source of inspiration in the quest for tales in popular culture that influences human experience in and outside his imagined alternative universe, and deeper dive into the appropriation and transmutation of such culture.

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Jacob Freeman
Phantom Power, 2022
Acrylic on canvas
12 x 16 in / 30.5 x 40.6 cm
Jacob Freeman
Jonah, 2022
Watercolor on canvas
48 x 36 in / 121.9 x 91.4 cm
Jacob Freeman
Prince Hamlet, 2022
Acrylic on canvas
18 x 24 in / 45.7 x 61 cm
Jacob Freeman
Long Time Running, 2022
Acrylic on canvas
18 x 24 in / 45.7 x 61 cm
Jacob Freeman
Thin & Wicked Prairie Winds, 2022
Acrylic on canvas
48 x 36 in / 121.9 x 91.4 cm
Jacob Freeman
Little Bones, 2022
Acrylic on canvas
24 x 18 in / 61 x 45.7 cm
Jacob Freeman
Everything Louder (Than Everyone Else), 2022
Watercolor on canvas
20 x 16 in / 50.8 x 40.6 cm