“Portrait of a Young Man” is a group of works based on the 15th century male portrait. The sitter in the Renaissance portrait was mostly depicted gazing to the side onto their own life and time. I have here reversed their glance toward us and our world – opposite of what we have done to them over the last 600 years.

My focus on this group of works is based on a more bold and aggressive execution of these portraits which emphasizes the textured surface and the material. This creates visual tension between texture and image, and a further blurring between representation and abstraction

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