Portraits draw us in because they’re like windows into our lives. They’re not just about how we look- they also show our emotions, stories, and who we are. FACE TO FACE is all about talent, creativity, and using unusual materials that push the boundaries of traditional portraiture. Bright colors, detailed patterns, and surprising textures bring out each individual’s unique qualities and inner light. This show celebrates the human spirit, exploring our identity and boldly stating what contemporary portraiture can be.
FACE TO FACE
Best of Show- No one came here to hide //2
Margaret Scott
aluminum dibond photographic print on fiber
St. Leonards On Sea, England
Director's Choice- Surviving behind her shadow
Director's Choice- Untitled
Rosaries' Salesgirl
Catching Snowflakes
Santo de la Servilleta
Engrossed
Blessed Are They II
Watching
Self-portrait with headphones
Maya
The Water Carrier
Afghan Pashtun Tribesman
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Self-portrait
Irina Kaplan
watercolor on aquabord
Niskayuna, New York
Buried to Bloom
Conrad's Eye
Echo
Apex
Vince Quevedo
art quilt
Kent, Ohio
The Security
The Next Phase
Milo Milowsky
spray paint, automotive candy, over a silver base
Newton, Massachusetts
Brave Brothers
Rosy Petri
batik fabric, African wax prints, cotton thread
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
I Left My Heart in NY
Yearning for James Baldwin
Patiently Waiting
The Wink
Intentional
Sea Dog
Queen of the Universe
I am . . . yours
CHRIS
The Struggle
No. 14
Woman 1
Formative Years
Christine Sullivan
screen print and acrylic paint with yarn on canvas
Lamy, New Mexico
The Swan, remembrance
Steven Bogart
oil
Maynard, Massachusetts
Making Capital Gains While Losing the Will to Live
Nigel Wimberly
wood-fired stoneware
Alfred, New York
If Looks Could Kill
Moonlight Shadow
Simone Scholes
oil and silver leaf on cradled board
Mansfield, Massachusetts
What a wonderful world
The Blue Hat
A Grandma's Hope for Peace
Climate Change
Saginaw Grant-Medicine Man-Marine
Another Desperate Man
MY BELOVED AWAITS ME
Sitting Bull
Ritual
James Warmbrodt
watercolor
Wexford, Pennsylvania
Beyond Words
Orchid Me
Body of Water
Jacob Tate
film
Bloomington, Indiana
Martha
Caín - a polaroid portrait, number 1
Brian Pannier
photography
Tampa, Florida
Too Soon A Soldier
John Diephouse
photography
Lansing, Michigan
Courtney
Marissa Madonna
acrylic and colored pencil on toned paper
Kure Beach, North Carolina
Night On the Trail
James #2
Resilience
Angela Liu
graphite
Diamond Bar, California
old blind satyr
Beginning All Over
Open Your Eyes
Jamie Craddock Johnson
watercolor and ink on antique paper
Gilbert, Arkansas
Warm Contemplation
Charu Jain
acrylic on canvas
Hanford, California
Diversity
Vigil
Liz Cooper
oil on board
Westlake Village, California
Still from recovery, Malden, MA
My Shrink
Portrait (Bob)
Echoes of Time Past
Physicist
Arthur Hayes
oil on linen
Dickerson, Maryland