“Tête-À-Tête: Portraits In Dialogue” Exhibition

Allan Stone Projects

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Allan Stone Projects presents Tête-à-Tête: Portraits in Dialogue. Selected from the Allan Stone Collection, the exhibition will survey portraits and self-portraits by various artists spanning over seventy years. Included in the show is an early, rare, self-portrait drawing by Willem de Kooning, c. 1942, and a dynamic portrait by David Alfaro Siqueiros, c. 1936.

The exhibition will place portraits and self-portraits from various styles, mediums, and eras in close dialogue with one another highlighting the different approaches taken by artists in this genre. Self-portraits have been a means of self-examination and discovery throughout the history of art, and portraits of sitters are illustrated through the unique lens of the artist. The genre is a study of what it means to be human, and it can be an historical account, a personal characterization, or a memory. They are representational but not necessarily realistic, and this exhibition will illustrate a diversity of portraits from the objective, to the abstract, to the symbolic.

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