Thu, Dec 03
|Zoom
TRUE LIKENESS: A Conversation about Portraiture
Newman and Stanley will discuss the college’s latest installation, True Likeness, an exhibition of contemporary portraits from diverse makers, in a variety of media.
Time and Location
Dec 03, 2020, 4:00 PM
Zoom
About the Event
Thursday, December 3 at 4:00 PM
Zoom Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/5282350917
Meeting ID: 528 235 0917
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Portraits serve as expressions of identity, popular taste, social standing and documents of who, when and where. Representing self in the best light or seeing others in understandable terms, are motives behind why we record images of each other for rituals, history, art making and status. How could any genre be more important? Yet with so many categories of portraiture in our daily lives, this imagery is often taken for granted.
To explore this topic, Newman and Stanley will discuss the college’s latest installation, True Likeness, an exhibition of contemporary portraits from diverse makers, in a variety of media including video, photography, painting, collage, paper cut, sculpture, printmaking, and drawing. Eighteen artists hail from all over the US, presenting a look into who we are, as a country, in the…