Portraiture
Party creates vivid pastels and transformational installations that lure viewers deep into the backstories of his subjects.
Party creates vivid pastels and transformational installations that lure viewers deep into the backstories of his subjects.
Painting from the present and from history.
A painter discusses her approach to making portraits.
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
