Likeness

Over 40 years ago, Andy Warhol promoted the concept that artists are celebrities, just as portrayal as other cultural icons. "Likeness Portraits of Artists by Other Artists begins where Warhol let off. Presenting visually striking and conceptually diverse works in a range of mediums, "Likeness is the first exhibition and catalogue to propose a recent history of artists' representations of other artists--of friends, peers, and idols. While any portrait is both a document and a personal record of the relationship between the artist and his or her subject, blurring distinctions between public and private, portraits further enrich the situation; they commemorate and concretize the intimate social dramas of the art world and the economies of exchange. Selected here are over 50 works created by a loose network of artists primarily active in New York, Los Angeles, London, and Berlin during the past three decades, including by AA Bronson, Bruce La Bruce, Chuck Close, Tacita Dean, Sam Durant, Nan Goldin, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Mike Kelley, Robert Mapplethorpe, Dave Muller, Elizabeth Peyton, and others.