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An anniversary!
Dear friends,
Portrait Society has turned 10 years old!
What began as a 300 square foot room that housed an on-line publication,Susceptible to Images,
started by Kat Murrell and myself, Portrait Society was born on a whim
while I was teaching art history at MIAD. Having a tendency to side
with the underdog, the portrait seemed like the most homely, maligned,
uncool, dustiest of art genres, making it appealing for someone seeking
to challenge what comes from the center. People used to ask, ‘Why the
‘portrait?’ or ‘Why the misleading name for a contemporary gallery?’ I
liked to say because it’s the ugliest puppy of all and that makes me
want to take it home.
To
define the goals of Portrait Society Gallery more formally, we sought
to bring ideas surrounding the portrait and the impulses of human self
representation into a broad conceptual framework. The
exploration of how identity is shaped by social conditions takes place
in the deepest trench of history. It ranges from the snapshot and family
photo album (in your phone or on your mantle) to social media and
contemporary art. The fact that the portrait flowed in and out of the
art world into nooks and crannies, unobstructed by style barriers and
conditions of race, economics, and education made it particularly
appealing. And still does. To be visible is to have agency and today
self-representation is paramount.
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On the Wing
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| On the Wing, weekly drawing/sketchbook class at House of Peace. |
For more than a year, PSG has orchestrated a project called On the Wing. Every Tuesday artist Pat Hidson and myself host a sketchbook drawing class for at-risk populations at the House of Peace. When participants finish their sketchbooks, we purchase them for $50. We now have about 125 sketchbooks. Many of you have generously donated to this project and we thank you wholeheartedly!We will celebrate the first year of the project as well as the fact that we now have non-profit status during an exhibition opening in early April.
We are asking various additional artists to do sketchbooks for the show, which we will show and sell to raise funding for the program. If you are an artist and you’d like to do a sketchbook, please let us know. You will receive 50 percent of the sale price. The greater variety of artists represented in the show, the better so please consider being a part of this!!
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Thank you and more soon!
Debra Brehmer, Portrait Society Gallery
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