The paintings are not portraits of specific people, but the artist often uses the same facial shapes and motifs as a starting point for painterly exploration, such as in Shared Borders and Shared Space. (afmuseet.no)
Danish artist Julie Sass presents a cohesive body of new work as part of Copenhagen Arts Week that signals complex, painterly explorations in abstract minimalism (studiointernational.com)
Starting from photographs she takes of people in her community, Laughlin converts the photos into composite figures and generates a line drawing, a coloring book template, for painterly exploration. (sulfurstudios.org)