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Photo by Stephanie Yao with The Oregonian |
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"Although her portraits might be of other people, stare at them long enough and you'll find they have an interesting way of becoming as much about ... her own hunger to understand the world." |
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"[The subject] is eager to see how Swollen captures her interior and exterior changes. Regardless of what she thinks about the finished product, Seemel hopes for a strong reaction." |
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"Seemel is more than a painter of portraits, she is an explorer of life's greatest questions armed with acrylics on canvas." |
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"Seemel's project is really a complex performance-art piece -- sort-of real life reality television." |
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"In a time where it has become commonplace to discuss female sublimation of their sense of self, Seemel's work asks 'what about men?' What she reveals to herself and to the viewer is the simple humanity of each of these men." |
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"'A single brushstroke can change the entire expression. There's always a new face.' If so, it seems likely that Seemel will find it." |
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"Seemel has long shown a designer's eye for color and crisp, lyrical brushstrokes, and now her skills are meeting more mature themes of contradictory and interwoven elements of control and inevitability." |
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Copyright 2008, Gwenn Seemel. |