Alone. Together. is an exploration into how and why portraits function in the ways that they do as well as a personal exploration of why I as an artist am compelled to make them. Portraits can be and have been many things. Mine are an explorations of the concept of identity and the relationship between notions of self and other. They are also expression of love, a cry for help and a manifestation of my belief that the infinite is encountered most readily in the small, the mundane and the seemingly ordinary experience of looking someone in the eye. Creating portraits, this work suggest, mirrors the core and universal work of humanity; that is to embrace rather than run from our common loneliness and to work to see one another–in spite of and because of the impossibility of meeting.

Kaylynne. 2018
Drypoint, roulette with aquatint and woodblock on backed ganpi mounted to Sommerset.
Image 24'x18' paper 28"x22.5

Kat. 2018
Etching and drypoint with woodblock on backed ganpi mounted to Sommerset.
Image 18"x24" paper 22"x30"

Doug. 2018
Etching with woodblock on mounted ganpi, mounted on Sommerset.
Image 18"x24" paper 22"x30"
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Ryan. 2017
Etching with drypoint and woodblock printing on backed ganpi, mounted to Sommerset. 
image 16x20" paper 18x24"

Dani. 2017
Etching with drypoint, aquatint and woodblock printing on backed ganpi, mounted to Sommerset. 
image 16x20" paper 18x24"

Bryce. 2017
Drypoint and woodblock printing on backed ganpi, mounted to Sommerset.
image 16x20" paper 18x24"

Jenna. 2017
Drypoint with softground, aquatint, scraping and burnishing and woodblock printing on backed ganpi, mounted to Sommerset.
image 16x20" paper 18x24"

Linda. 2017
drypoint and woodblock on backed ganpi mounted on Sommerset.
image 16x20" paper 18x24"

Joe. 2017
Etching and woodblock printing on backed ganpi, mounted to Sommerset.
image 16x20" paper 18x24"

Isaac. 2017
Etching with aquatint, spitbite, scraping and burnishing and woodblock printing on backed ganpi, mounted to Sommerset.
image 16x20" paper 18x24"