August 16–October 13

Other Beings:
Four Painters Bringing Roughly 20 Unique Faces

Hannah Barrett
Richard Butler
James Esber
Cruz Ortiz

Faces are generally divided between the familiar and the strange, One decides that “I know" or “I do not know” this particular combination of humanoid features. These four artists dodge that binary. They manifest the desire to enlarge a particular face into the realm of the mythic, and allow for a drifting into the unreal. Two, Butler and Ortiz start from faces they know evolving them into manifestations of other worldly realms, While Esber and Barrett conversely create mythic beings from broadcloth crafting memorable fictive entities These portraits are all unreal, mythically large and simultaneously truer than true.