ONLINE: Kip Omolade: Masks. Portraits Of Times Square And Luxury Graffiti
Jonathan LeVine Projects is pleased to present "Masks: Portraits of Times Square and Luxury Graffiti", a solo exhibition of new works by Kip Omolade. Omolade is known for his ongoing series of hyper-realistic oil paintings. His process for each work involves creating a face mold of his subject, casting a resin sculpture and applying a chrome finish. The resulting sculpture serves as a three-dimensional reference for the portrait.
In this exhibition, Omolade鈥檚 technique has evolved further by adding landscape elements and expanding the field of vision to include a surrounding environment behind the viewer. In some works, multi-layered graffiti and paint drips form a textural contrast between the smooth faces and their brightly-hued backgrounds. In others, iconic Times Square cityscapes are rendered to appear distortedly on the contoured, reflective features of the subjects.
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Jonathan LeVine Projects is pleased to present "Masks: Portraits of Times Square and Luxury Graffiti", a solo exhibition of new works by Kip Omolade. Omolade is known for his ongoing series of hyper-realistic oil paintings. His process for each work involves creating a face mold of his subject, casting a resin sculpture and applying a chrome finish. The resulting sculpture serves as a three-dimensional reference for the portrait.
In this exhibition, Omolade鈥檚 technique has evolved further by adding landscape elements and expanding the field of vision to include a surrounding environment behind the viewer. In some works, multi-layered graffiti and paint drips form a textural contrast between the smooth faces and their brightly-hued backgrounds. In others, iconic Times Square cityscapes are rendered to appear distortedly on the contoured, reflective features of the subjects.
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Jonathan LeVine Projects is pleased to present Masks: Portraits of Times Square and Luxury Graffiti, a solo exhibition of new works by Kip Omolade, through October 4, 2020.
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