Portraiture Suite
Wednesday, Aug 28 – Oct 19, 2024Northern Illinois University
Altgeld Hall, 1st Floor, West End
595 College Ave.
DeKalb, IL 60115
Seeing Each Other: Portraits in Time and Place - This group exhibition features both experienced and emerging artists. Each entry explores the time-honored tradition of portraiture in artmaking in a unique way, often finding universal narratives and concerns within intimate and personal imagery.
Hold Still: Portraits from the Permanent Collection - Portraiture, like “still life” or “landscape” has been a pillar of art genres since time immemorial. We combed through the permanent collection to assemble an exhibition of portraits from Japanese actor prints to Andy Warhol Polaroids. From the gritty to the idealized, there are images of individuals, groups, the self and even animals.
Homage to Humanity: Portrait Prints by Sidney Chafetz - Jewish-American artist Sidney Chafetz (1922-2013) devoted his life to education and the arts. An avid reader, Chafetz employed his talents as a printmaker to depict his social and literary heroes. In this exhibition, we gathered many of his portraits into a cultural “hall of fame.”