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Hirschl & Adler Modern is proud to present A Likeness, a group exhibition featuring seven
contemporary artists who push the boundaries of portrait painting. Often dismissed as
anachronistic, portraiture plays a vital and dynamic role in each of these artists’ practice. For
them, it is a strategy rather than a genre and one which elevates their work beyond a simple
likeness of the sitter. While each work in the show can be solidly defined as a portrait, these
paintings are also deep meditations on more abstract concepts such as labor, commodification,
marginalization, grief, and displacement. …