Guest curated on-line print exhibition: The Portrait in Contemporary Art: 1980 to Present
Guest curator Julia Lisi from Michael Lisi/Contemporary Art has chosen the theme “The Portrait in Contemporary Art: 1980 to Present.”
“In it we chose to incorporate a variety of styles by a distinct group of artists. Each piece is very different from the next, but each clearly falls under the intended theme. If from the beginning of time, portraiture has been central to art, what then have we come to expect of it? Where once portraiture was primarily an artist’s rendering of royalty or the religious, contemporary portraiture is now presented as both commonplace and bizarre, sometimes abstracted or satirized. Such is the case with the artwork presented here. With images in black and white as well as in rich color, some of the portraits displayed are those of frequently represented cultural icons. Those not easily recognizable are of figures who are more personal to the artist, or whom the artist wished to caricature in one way or another. This exhibition displays the familiar and the unusual, each however, very distinctly the personification of contemporary portraiture.”
Prints chosen by Julia:
