First Name Basis: Forty Years of Portraits by Dmitry Samarov
@ Firecat Projects
2019 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Friday, August 21st, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Sunday, October 18th
Opening: Friday, Aug 21, 7 – 10 pm, by appointment only
Drawing a face is one of the first things a child does. They draw their mother, their father, their brothers, their sisters, their friends. Some find a mirror and try to draw themselves.
Dmitry Samarov has been drawing faces a long time. This show gathers drawings and paintings from the last four decades of his life. Whether done from observation, imagination, memory, or photograph, each is a reckoning with a person’s face—the aspect which sets one apart from every other person, yet also reminds the viewer, to a greater or lesser extent, of everyone else they’ve ever seen. It’s the most particular and universal image there is.
You can see more of his work than you’d ever want to at dmitrysamarov.com.
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