Presentations will take place via the video conferencing app ZOOM. Please register in advance in order to access the program.
Devon Rodriguez and John Ahearn are two artists friends from different generations known for their dedication to portraying everyday people. Ahearn was a finalist in The Outwin 2016 with a double-cast plaster bust of Rodriguez titled Rodriguez Twins, and Rodriguez is a finalist of the Outwin 2019 with an oil portrait of Ahearn. In this public dialogue they will discuss their friendship and how their artistic practice inspires each other.
John Ahearn began a 40 year collaboration with Rigoberto Torres with the “South Bronx Hall of Fame” lifecasting project at Fashion Moda; for the last five years his “Raymond and Tobey” statue was installed at the Broad Museum’s gallery for Jean Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring.
Devon Rodriguez is a rising star of portraiture and since the last few months, a TikTok sensation, whose intimate, realistic likenesses of New York subway passengers have been featured in The New York Times and The New Yorker.
Presented by Devon Rodriguez and John Ahearn, artists, and Taina Caragol, curator, National Portrait Gallery
Artists featured in the current special exhibition The Outwin: American Portraiture Today, organized by the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. The competition and exhibition are made possible through generous support from the Virginia Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition Endowment.
The exhibit sponsored locally by Freedom Credit Union and Health New England.
