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

Perfect

We Are Here: Case 5

Girl with Band of Hair

Portrait of Jose Solis

Taylor Swift Cassette Tape Portrait

Glimpse of us

Nesting #20

Pain

Self-Portrait with Remi

Selfie @ 8:59PM

School Boy; Haiti
