The eyes are the window of the soul. This aphorism implies a connection between the seen and the unseen, and speaks to the sometimes uneasy link between the visible and incorporeal. Connections such as these are laid bare in J. Tomás López: The Portrait Series, a new body of work by this well-established artist, which is on view at the Lowe from May 25 to September 17, 2017. Rendered in soft focus, Lopezs works are characterized by the hazy blending of the facial features, hair, and clothing of their sitters, who are set against abstracted tawny-amber backgrounds. Yet the subjects eyeswhether open or shutare revealed in intense, hyper-focused detail. The viewer is thus brought face-to-face with Lópezs sitters, key figures in Miamis arts and cultural arenas, in intimate moments that feel almost confessional in nature. Lopezs work allows us to penetrate the personalities of his sitte
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