They offer a permanent premonition of winter; even the interior portraits suffer their own particular solstice, as the creeping invasion of shadow appears not so much to stripe and hatch the central figures as to suck them in.
Julia was a friend of Henry Moore's daughter, Mary, and Hedgecoe's introduction to the Moore family brought about a lengthy documentation of the sculptor at work, from carefully posed interior portraits to informal long shots of Moore engaging with large chunks of Carrara marble.
On display will be objects constructed in prison as well as prison cell interior portraits by Ruiz.
Landscapes, interiors, portraits, and abstract nocturnes — all painted from memory — deploy layered, tiny, sensitive strokes to peculiarly monumental effect.
Mr. Gillespie painted landscapes, street scenes, interiors, portraits, and sexual and religious allegories in a shifting range of styles.
He became "an alienated army of one," the show's curator, Anna Swinbourne, writes in the catalogue, and he holed up in Ostend for good, decisively turning his attention from naturalistic interiors, portraits, and other things of this world to stuff of another that was visible only to himself.
The show's other standouts are a large selection of velvety silver gelatin photographs from the early 1970's; their images of urban street scenes, interiors, portraits and female nudes, sometimes accented with hand-painted color, portray in a more roundabout fashion the universe that Mr. Hendricks so skillfully distills into his portraits.
Though she was simultaneously working on numerous projects in travel, interior, and portrait photography, and as well as works featuring abstracted flowers in decay, her experience with the AMNH made her enamored of the world of dead animals.
A gallery statement describes the works in the show — swirling compositions mimicking scenes of the Last Judgment and descents into Purgatory — as "interior self-portraits".
