Limners to Facebook: Portraiture from the 19th to the 21st Century

Feb 27, Appleby Foundation Gallery, Asheville Art Museum, 2 South Pack Sqaure,  Asheville North Carolina. This exhibition explores the persistence of the desire to capture images of self and others as it has changed over time, as well as its continuing importance in contemporary American art and popular culture. Limners were typically untrained and unnamed painters in America during the 18th and early 19th centuries. The exhibition includes formal portraits, self-portraits, portraits of animals and portraits of friends or models in a variety of media and range of styles: painting, drawing, photography, printmaking, sculpture and new media.