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The gallery will feature a series of new paintings that engage deeply with issues surrounding masculinity, identity, relationships, and eroticism. Through a combination of historical and contemporary references and aesthetics, he creates a body of work that is both deeply personal and universally resonant. Portales’ reverence for art history is evident in works inspired by masterpieces such as David Hockney’s Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures), Édouard Manet’s Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe and the romantic, dreamlike atmospheres of the Pre-Raphaelites, infusing his paintings with …