Previous Exhibitions

Likeness: Portraits of Artists by Other Artists re-examines the idea of portraiture and explores a variety of approaches to the genre. When artists create representations of other artists, the resulting work can take on a collaborative aspect. Presenting more than 50 visually striking and conceptually diverse works from the past three decades, “Likeness” investigates the private interactions and social dramas of a loose network of artists active in Los Angeles, New York, London, and Berlin, including Chuck Close, Robert Mapplethorpe, Elizabeth Peyton and Sigmar Polke. Many of the images evoke the heightened intimacy that is palpable between artists who are close friends, while others pay homage to muses and mentors, or treat the portrait as a memento mori.

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