Join us for  a conversation with three talented artists: Ellen Holtzblatt, Kalen Na'il Roach and Juan Molina Hernandez on their art practice and the use of family members as content and inspiration for their artwork. Do we ever fully know them?

They also lay bare the complexities of parenthood and how one manifests “taking care” when executed by adult children.

This inability to fully “see through” the prism of familial identity is explored and compelled the artists to create portraiture as renditions or glimpses of the sitter’s interiority. Framing and composition are intentional and provide a spectrum of degrees of intimacy and emotional proximity to the subjects.

The artists seem to ask, what do I see when I look at you? I see myself, I see nothing, I see vulnerability and fragility at the same time as resilience. This intersection results in unique portraits of mothers, fathers, nephews, cousins, grandparents who become mirrors of a self that lurks for clues and possible resemblance.

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