When You鈥檙e in the Mirror鈥�
Through every era, convention, and form, portraiture is built on the artist鈥檚 perception of both physical and emotional characteristics. To be perceived in this way is exceptionally vulnerable. The relationship between artist and subject influences the intimacy of seeing. A beloved matriarch, for example, might be depicted differently than a model for hire or a romantic interest. Through this relationship, the artist creates something tangible from something abstract.
Mimesis, or complete likeness, is not always the goal. The idea of someone (their spirit, their aura, their feel) is also desirable to impart. There is tension and ambiguity in this balance, but it is a necessary concoction.
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Through every era, convention, and form, portraiture is built on the artist鈥檚 perception of both physical and emotional characteristics. To be perceived in this way is exceptionally vulnerable. The relationship between artist and subject influences the intimacy of seeing. A beloved matriarch, for example, might be depicted differently than a model for hire or a romantic interest. Through this relationship, the artist creates something tangible from something abstract.
Mimesis, or complete likeness, is not always the goal. The idea of someone (their spirit, their aura, their feel) is also desirable to impart. There is tension and ambiguity in this balance, but it is a necessary concoction.
Artists on show
- Arturo Montaño
- Beatrice Wood
- Christopher E. Harrison
- Clara Gardner Mairs
- Clement Bernard鈥� Haupers
- Emma Amos
- Frances Cranmer Greenman
- Frank Gaard
- Hal Phyfe
- Judith Johnson Roode
- Kat Eng
- Kwame Brathwaite
- Leslie Barlow
- Louis Safer
- Maiya Lea Hartman
- Moises Salazar
- Natia Lemay
- Nikol Schattenstein
- Raphael Soyer
- Robert Henri
- Susan Hauptman
- Wanda Gág
- Wes Winship
- Wing Young Huie
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