Haines Gallery opens a group exhibition bringing together works by seven contemporary artists
(Artdaily.org)

Haines Gallery is presenting Likenesses, a group exhibition bringing together works by seven contemporary artists from around the world to explore the conventions, possibilities, and limits of portraiture. The paintings, photographs, and mixed-media pieces included in Likenesses often reveal less about their human subjects than about the genre of portraiture as socially, psychologically, and politically charged. Maurizio Anzeri embroiders vintage photographs with intricate filigrees of thread that obscure the faces of the original sitters while leaving exposed an eye, a mouth, or an ear. His colorful handiwork simultaneously masks and unmasks his subjects while upending the intentions of conventional portrait photography. Kota Ezawa’s pared down renderings of music icons Jimi Hendrix and Joni Mitchell merge with Josef