COMING SOON - Our Muse Étienne 💭 📍Members' Gallery 📍Jan 5 - Feb 1, 2023 📍Reception: Jan 13, 2023, 7 - 10 PM Video reposted and courtesy of Corinne Duchesne "We came together from around the hemisphere once a week, to draw and paint, via Zoom. How we got there was a winding story which was born out of camaraderie and scholarship." "We worked with the beloved Étienne Buxton, a well-known Hamilton art model, illustrator and creator of Alien Man. Whether he was aware of it or not at the time, he would become a source of inspiration and a true muse." "The portraits in the exhibition represent a small fraction of the drawings and paintings of Étienne produced by the artist group, Portrait Pals, founded in early 2020 by Felicia van Bork, a Canadian artist and OCADU grad living in North Carolina. It is amazing how through Zoom, we could be together, and apart, but have the opportunity to get so close to another person’s face. Looking intimately at a face, exploring, examining, and in...