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Lora Reynolds is pleased to announce Six Stories, a project room exhibition of drawings by Ben Durham—the artist’s second solo show at the gallery.

Ben Durham makes drawings of people he grew up with. He finds the source images for his works by looking for familiar faces and names in online databases of mugshots from the Kentucky Department of Corrections. Rather than rendering his subjects by classical means (crosshatching or the like) Durham writes each of his subjects’ stories, layering text in varying weights and densities until it somehow resolves into a photorealistic likeness. He calls …