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Loretta Howard Gallery is pleased to present Nicolas Carone: Imaginary Portraits. The exhibition focuses on paintings and sculptures of imaginary people. The practice of painting heads was a life long pursuit which became a preoccupation for Carone in the 1980s. Carone did not use models; instead, the people portrayed are drawn from the artist’s mind. During the same decade, Carone began carving sculptures from stone found on his property in Umbria, Italy. Imaginary Portraits is organized in conjunction with The Thing Unseen: A Centennial Celebration of Nicolas Carone at the New York Studio …