
Empty Portrait
Empty Portrait by Stephen G. Rhodes is a multi-panel work combining oil and acrylic paint with photo collage on canvas, creating a layered interplay between photographic imagery and painterly gestures. The three-part composition invites questions about representation and absence, as the collision of mediums disrupts any singular or stable image of a subject. Rhodes uses this fragmented structure to explore the tension between documentation and erasure, leaving the "portrait" perpetually incomplete.
- Medium
- oil, acrylic, photo collage on canvas, in 3 parts
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
🔨 Auction Lot
Under the Influence
September 19, 2013
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