Portraiture
Painting as storytelling.
Investigating the photographic portrait.
Portraits that capture the everyday.
Painting and sculpting faces.
Photographing Andy Warhol’s celebrity circle.
A new series of photographs tracks the Underground Railroad.
The artist talks about depicting imagined and real historical figures.
Radically imagined safe spaces for black queerness.
The mask as multiple levels of embodiment.
The portrait photographer on how he captures the spirit and power of a writer’s work.
Identities, self-portraits, and fiction.
The artist talks about claiming noble lineages through hybridized portrait paintings.
Building a possible portrait of Chelsea Manning from DNA.
“I take myself, my drawings, and this little bundle of creative forces that is me, and I try to make a chemical reaction with the world.”—Swoon
A collaboration between B. Ingrid Olson and Kate Zambreno.
Embracing divine identity through photographic portraiture.
A painter talks about portraits as love letters, the poetry of country music, addiction and compulsion, drawing out painful archetypes, and finding both resentment and dignity in daily life.