NYAB Event - "Portraits" Exhibition

Closes in 2 days
At Eleven Rivington
Media: Painting

The artists in STORIES: PORTRAITS paint single figures, pairs, and groups, primarily from life, while some choose to construct portraits from found images and or family photographs. They propose the human face and form as their primary focus and the gaze as a basic and elemental impulse. The artists’ subjects range from friends (Raffi Kalenderian), to lovers and partners (TM Davy), and also to the familial, such as Ylva Oglands continued look back at her young self, this time in an intimate moment with her father. Jeronimo Elespe’s Mamin, 2007, is a touching image of the artist’s grandmother. Adria Sartore paints young women she meets in her native Genoa, their youth framed by classical Italian references as in the jewel sized Isabelle, 2008. Both Aya Uekawa and Kay Harwood mine disparate art histories and popular culture to make composite portraits to disquieting effect.

[Image: Adria Sartore “Estelle” (2008) Oil on canvas 35.43 x 23.62 in.]

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