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