Karl Francke "Recent Portraits"

Heskin Contemporary

poster for Karl Francke "Recent Portraits"

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The Brooklyn based artist Karl Francke's sense of portraiture came from old movies on late night television, where the paintings of dead ancestors were haunted with moving cut-out eyes. His own work echoes that paradoxical voyeurism. Francke injects himself into the subject, sharing space beneath the skin and behind the eyes. It is a hell which is enjoyed, but ultimately escaped. Through his work, we share a prolonged and rewarding intimacy with people we'd normally not feel comfortable sharing an elevator with- while suspecting that the portraits may be, at that very moment, thinking the very same of us.

[Image: Karl Francke "Hunter Wolf" (2012) oil on panel 19.5 x 16 in.]

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from May 31, 2012 to June 30, 2012

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Karl Francke

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