“Everyday People”

A group show at Drawing Rooms

Eighty striking portraits, scenes quotidian and dynamic, all set in an accelerating world (ours).

Portraits ask for more engagement than other kinds of paintings do, and that engenders excitement and a certain sense of responsibility. A good portraitist conjures up people for you to deal with, and then makes them unavoidable.

Our local galleries have shaken off the introversion of the lockdown period and its aftermath and externalized their renewed social sentiment through portrait shows. Drawing Rooms presents the most boisterous, most extroverted one of all.

Curator Anne Trauben has hung eighty different pieces of various sizes in the big gallery space, which means that you, visitor, will have more than one hundred and sixty eyes on you. She makes you feel every one of them.