Reflection art

Using photography, collage, tapestry, and video, Erin M. Riley, Leah Schrager, Alexa Meade, and more reveal the meanings of self-representation today.

Linnea Strid was born in Sweden in 1983. When she was 16 she moved to Spain with her family and there she started her career as an artist. She primarily paints in hyper-realism style. Her pictures …

This is an oil painting I did over Thanksgiving holiday at my parents house. I was assigned to do a painting of someone's reflection painted in an analogous color palette. I had a few different ideas all with children that I was thinking of doing. Here is one of my sketch book pages: I chose to do a little girl scrutinizing and admiring herself in a mirror. I painted it in a yellow analogous palette (the color is not showing up perfectly in the photo but it's close). My four-year-old sister…

Janne Kearney is an artist based in Geelong, Victoria, Australia. Janne explains her work by saying, “I am Predominately a figurative and portrait artist, my paintings ask the viewer to disregard preconceived perceptions of people, society and at times reality. Bodywork is a series of paintings of real life tattooed people. The works are full of texture and color created in a contemporary realist manner and could be described as iconoclastic…they challenge or overturn traditional beliefs…

Japanese design studio Nendo will conceive an immersive environment for a show of MC Escher’s works at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne

under water reflection photography

James Lloyd, Portrait Painter

About the Work A female figure is depicted in a moment of introspection, resulting in the recognition of boredom. The monotony resulting from constant self-occupation is hinted through the bored and distant gaze, and the visage’s broken reflection in the water. The relationship between the background and the figure is unclear, adding a feeling of oddness to the scene and the radiating skin of the figure seems amiss within the cold tones of the surrounding. Burn’s unique way of painting…

Austrian artist Martin C. Herbst pushes the limits of two dimensional portraits with his series of distorted oil paintings on crumpled aluminum.

You will barely believe your eyes at the sharp paintings by Simon Hennessey from Birmingham, UK. He capitalizes on reflections in sunglasses to portray