From 19 March - 31 August, Leila Heller Gallery is exhibiting dual solo shows featuring seminal American artists Kenny Scharf and Philip Taaffe's vibrant
takes on myriad themes from the petroleum industry to
microscopic images of Viking artefacts
Later, bioscientific works such as Gary Schneider's Genetic Self - Portraits (1997 — 1998) or Marc Quinn's A Genomic Portrait: Sir John Sulston (2001)-- in which a sample of the sitter's DNA in agar jelly is mounted in stainless steel —
took the bearers of identity to be
images of chromosomes, enlargements of
microscopic hair samples, retinal
images, and even mounted DNA itself.