PORTRAIT IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

MOLLY CRABAPPLE
KRISTIN LUCAS
KATARZYNA KOZYRA
SALLY SMART
SHAMUS CLISSET
AUSTIN LEE
ANTON PERICH
RYDER RIPPS

November 29, 2014 - January 17, 2015

Installation View

A portrait is a picture in which there is just a tiny little something not quite right about the mouth.
John Singer Sargent

When one starts from a portrait and seeks by successive eliminations to find pure form... one inevitably ends up with an egg.
Pablo Picasso

- to a sitter's complaint that his portrait was not a great work of art: Perhaps not, but then you can't call yourself a great work of nature.
James Abbott McNeill Whistler

You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.
Otto Dix

The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put the camera between the skin of a person and his shirt.
Henri Cartier-Bresson

It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.
James Abbott McNeill Whistler

The dog is the perfect portrait subject. He doesn't pose. He isn't aware of the camera.
Patrick Demarchelier

When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
Edward Munch

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
Salvador Dali

It's really absurd to make... a human image, with paint, today, when you think about it... But then all of a sudden, it was even more absurd not to do it.
Willem de Kooning

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
John Singer Sargent

I am only interested in painting the actual person, in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art.
Lucian Freud

Like Chekhov, I am a collector of souls... if I hadn't been an artist, I could have been a psychiatrist.
Alice Neel

A portrait, to be a work of art, neither must nor may resemble the sitter... one must paint its atmosphere.
Umberto Boccioni

When I painted his portrait and offered it to him, he glanced at the canvas, then, looking at himself in the mirror, thought a moment and said: Well, no! Keep it!
Marc Chagall

Postmasters will present a show of portraits, real and imagined, that reflect our moment in time, the currently available technologies and the growing popular fascination with portraiture over social media platforms.

	Portraits in the Twenty-First Century installation view
	Portraits in the Twenty-First Century installation view
	Portraits in the Twenty-First Century installation view
	Portraits in the Twenty-First Century installation view
	Austin Lee Shape Up 2014 flashe acrylic on canvas 72 x 57.75 inches
	Kristin Lucas Breakout 2006 duratran photograph, lightbox 36 x 36 x 5 inches
	Ryder Ripps SUP 2014 oil on canvas 40 x 40 inches
	Sally Smart Pedagogical Puppet (Self-Portrait) 2012 c-print 80 x 44 inches
	Austin Lee installation view
	Austin Lee Selfbust 2014 3D printed abs plastic, Plaster, acrylic paint 50 x 14 x 14 inches (with base)
	Austin Lee Aaron 2014 3D printed abs plastic, Plaster, acrylic paint 30 x 17 x 13 inches (with base)
	Anton Perich Andrea, Song 2012 acrylic on canvas 59 x 48 inches
	Ryder Ripps Nothing Is the Same 2014 oil on canvas 40 x 40 inches
	Shamus Clisset Builder Destroy (Acid God) 2013 raytraced image / c-print 50 x 33.25 inches
	Shamus Clisset Gundam Head (VIP version) 2014 raytraced image / c-print 50 x 33.25 inches
	Kristin Lucas Portrait with Eugenia Gortchakova 2009 versionhood portrait seriesc-print framed 11.5 x 15.5 inches A portrait of Kristin Lucas taken with Eugenia Gortchakova in Oldenburg, Germany on October 5, 2009. Gortchakova was born on October 5, the same day of the year that Lucas was legally refreshed through a same name change in a California courtroom.Gortchakova is a visual artist who lives in Germany and shares a resemblance to Lucas; she has a twin sister who lives in Russia. On the anniversary of Lucas's refresh and Gortchakova's birthday, Lucas bought Gortchakova a matching red jacket and invited her to have their portrait taken together. Photo credit: Stefanie Peters/Foto Ventura.
	Anton Perich Warhol Shroud 2012 acrylic on canvas 59 x 48 inches
	Katarzyna Kozyra About Kozyra 2012 single channel videorunning time: 9:39 minutes