This somewhat disturbing image suggests a face that is fractured and not fully revealed. Overall, the faint central portrait emerges in a way that seems both fragmented and prismatic, even as the head points to a human presence. What stands out is how the unfocused gaze does not achieve a balance between portraiture and abstraction because its expression is shockingly off.
There is some tape on the paper’s edge and a rejected image on the back of paper.
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Amy Ione
Title: Prismatic Self-Portrait
Date: 2008
Medium: Oil on archival watercolor paper over gesso
Dimensions: 21 x 28 inches
Unsigned
Catalog Number: 35686
