Looking into Likeness: Portraits in the Weisman Collection will be exhibited at The Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota through June 21, 2009.
In the simplest sense, a portrait is a representation of an individual person. Often it is a visual image. A portrait can also be verbal, as in a literary portrait where words "paint a picture" of a person.
With work ranging from Chuck Close’s famous "fingerprint portraits" to R. Justin Stewart’s conceptual self-portrait mapping his use of the bus system over thirty-one days, this exhibition features the Weisman's varied collection of portraiture.
Some of these are traditional portraits of individual visages, like Manet’s portrait of Edgar Allen Poe, and others stretch the genre to comment not only on the tradition of potraiture but on identity itself. -- www.weisman.umn.edu
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