“Portraiture Now: Staging the Self” Exhibition
Americas Society
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The National Portrait Gallery presents at the Americas Society Portraiture Now, a series of exhibitions that showcase some of the most creative twenty-first-century portrait artists.
Portraiture Now: Staging the Self features the work of six contemporary U.S. Latino artists—David Antonio Cruz, Carlee Fernandez, María Martínez-Cañas, Rachelle Mozman, Karen Miranda Rivadeneira, and Michael Vasquez—who present identities theatrically, in order to rid portraiture of its reassuring tradition that fixes a person in space and time.
Through their works these artists address personal or family issues, telling stories that they remember or imagine from their past, manipulating images of themselves, or superimposing portraits of their loved ones on their own. Like actors searching for a character, they explore the boundaries of individuality. In the process, portraiture loses its aura of certainty and instead becomes an evolving map for finding oneself and others.
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Schedule
from June 10, 2015 to October 17, 2015
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