About Face: Contemporary Portrait Painting

A vibrant survey of contemporary portrait painters by bestselling author and curator Amber Creswell Bell.

"Portraiture is like an alchemy of the physical and the intangible into painted materiality." — Yvette Coppersmith

A portrait is no longer expected to be a realistic rendering of a person—artists experiment with numerous techniques, even approaching abstraction, to convey the personality and character of their subjects. About Face explores the rich diversity of contemporary portraiture vi...