Thomas Torak’s The Artist is on view at the Masur Museum as part of En Plein Air: The Artist and the Natural World.
“I may have worked on one small self-portrait for 6,000 hours. I think every self-portrait has a hundred different self-portraits underneath.”
Family Matters: Drawings, Paintings, Prints, Handmade Paper is a solo exhibition of Wendy Shalen’s self-portraits, figurative charcoal and silverpoint drawings, and watercolors.
I think it’s important to be able to paint exactly what you want. For me that meant not having to do illustrations or take portrait commissions for a living. I had to be independent.