We humans are complicated creatures whose faces merely hint at our emotions and experiences. St. Paul-based Anne Labovitz seizes this ambiguity as an opportunity to layer her portraits with images, gestures, paint, prints, drawings, woodcuts, ink, pastels, lines and more. Her dense accretions mix male and female, old and young, past and present in a passionate effort to create psychological studies that are more about the “human condition” than individual people. Suggestions of a face lurk even in “Harold,” her gestural abstraction shown here.
— Mary Abbe, Star Tribune
Fragment, 30 x 24, acrylic and Caran d Ache on canvas, 2014
Gray Letter Painting woodcut with acrylic on canvas, 30 x 24, 2014, $5500
Half I (indigo), 30 x 24, woodcut, acrylic and Caran d Ache on canvas, 2014
Half I, 30 x 24, woodcut, acrylic and Caran d Ache on canvas, 2014
Sharon, woodcut with acrylic on canvas, 30 x 24, 2014, $5500
Harold, woodcut with acrylic on canvas, 30 x 24, 2014, $5500
Donna, Amy, Jennifer, Self, Ann, woodcut, with acrylic, 17 x 12, 2014, $2500
Harold on Harold, woodcut with acrylic on canvas, 17 x 12, 2014, $2500
Lyndel on Lyndel, woodcut with acrylic on canvas, 17 x 12, 2014, $2500
Young, Old, Bella, Self, Leo, woodcut with acrylic, 17 x 12, 2014, $2500
Blue, woodcut with acrylic on canvas, 48 x 36, 2014, $7000
Orange, woodcut with graphite and acrylic, 48 x 48, 2014, $8000