{"id":10169,"date":"2023-02-17T11:00:39","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T16:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=10169"},"modified":"2023-02-14T11:25:41","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T16:25:41","slug":"yz-kami-at-gagosian-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/17\/yz-kami-at-gagosian-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"YZ Kami at Gagosian Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Son of a portrait painter, Iranian artist YZ Kami grew up speaking the language of portraiture, but as his art practice matured, the identity of his sitters became less important.\u00a0 Now on view at <a href=\"https:\/\/gagosian.com\/exhibitions\/2023\/yz-kami-night-and-day\/\">Gagosian Gallery<\/a> in Chelsea, enigmatic paintings of subjects known only to us by a name or descriptive identifier in the title represent specific individuals at close range who nevertheless feel as if they\u2019re at a remove.\u00a0 Indistinctly painted contours, a deliberate softening of outlines, give each character a sense of existing at another point in time, perhaps as a memory.\u00a0 Downcast eyes suggest that the inner life is the subject of these intriguing but elusive paintings.\u00a0 (On view in Chelsea through Feb 25<sup>th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1657px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/6c6876dc7ff53694967151f73\/images\/0e6e7859-90c9-8563-f416-54c9ac6c94a4.jpg\" width=\"1657\" height=\"2730\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Isaac in Purple Shirt, oil on linen, 58 \u00bd x 36 inches, 2022.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Son of a portrait painter, Iranian artist YZ Kami grew up speaking the language of portraiture, but as his art practice matured, the identity of his sitters became less important.\u00a0 Now on view at Gagosian Gallery in Chelsea, enigmatic paintings of subjects known only to us by a name or descriptive identifier in the title &hellip; 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