Alex Israel: Self-Portrait (Yellow Face) Abrams Avedon and Warhol straddled commercial

Avedon and Warhol straddled commercial and fine art realms

more stochastic

It includes a conversation between Oehlen and curator Mark Godfrey

photographing and distorting the real as a way of suggesting—or disrupting—the ideal

The decks are intended for decorative purposes

Alex Israel: Self-Portrait (Yellow Face) Abrams Avedon and Warhol straddled commercialIn Self Portrait (Yellow Face) (2017), a print produced by Mixografia, Alex Israel depicts his own sunglasses clad face in profile, replacing his features with smoothly gradated color fields. Editioned in six different color combinations, Self Portrait features a white outline of the artists head in raised relief with a hollow, contoured interior. Making use of a 1980s style palette that juxtaposes neon and pastel hues, Israel evokes the distinctive