The Psychology of Portraiture

The Psychology of Portraiture
February 15, 2024 - May 16, 2024
Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens College (CUNY)
The Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens College, is pleased to present The Psychology of Portraiture. Prints, drawings, paintings, and sculptures were selected to reveal the rich treasures held by the museum, from a Roman mask portraying Silenus, the companion of the god Dionysus, 5th c. BC, to Claudia DeMonte’s Female Fetishes, 1993-2001. Works in the exhibition reach far into the past and the present. Portraits of 16th c. sovereigns and scholars, WPA/FAP prints illustrating quotidian moments, iconic Pop images by Andy Warhol and Larry Rivers, Roger Shimomura’s incisive work questioning identity, and Kathe Kollwitz’s universal examinations of the human condition, allow us to examine portrayals cross-culturally. The exhibition examines how portraiture often depicts the unromanticized as well as the ideal, and straddles the line between reality and caricature, expressing the very essence of the individual portrayed.
This exhibition is funded in part by the Friends of the Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Kupferberg Center for the Arts, and Queens College, CUNY. Education programs and initiatives are supported in part by the Milton & Sally Avery Arts Foundation, and public funds from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with NY City Council.
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