Facetime is a decent show that revolves around
contemporary portraiture and possibly how our ever more digitized lives have
impacted how we deal with people. But without the press release, the show just comes
off as a solid collection of work that ponders one of the oldest genres of art,
the portrait. Now what conclusion is the show is coming to on portraiture in
contemporary art? It would seem the work is arguing for a great deal of leeway.
For instance, A. Kassen’s two silver
coat hooks (one broken) seem to push the definition of a portrait to the most generous
of limits. Daniel Gordon supplies
one of his recent and pleasantly grotesque portraits, while Zevs has three turn-of-the-century
style portraits where each face has been obscured with a haze of light. Gordon
and Zevs and even Odires Milaszho’s
collages present a form of portraiture that feels contemporary yet still reads
as a portrait. I also enjoyed Maria
Petsching smartly-hidden video loop of a woman exposing her torso, but
again is it portraiture?
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