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Congratulations to Hugo Crosthwaite on the upcoming exhibition of his newly commissioned portrait of Anthony S. Fauci for the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery’s “Portrait of a Nation: 2022 Honorees” opening Nov. 10, 2022 in Wash. D.C. and on view through 2023. His portrait, a year in the making, consists of a five-minute stop-motion animation film made from hundreds of drawn images depicting a trajectory of Fauci’s life and career, from his role in the AIDS crisis of the 1980s to the pandemic of 2020.

Crosthwaite was the First Prize recipient of the 2019 Outwin Boochever American Portrait Competition at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C. for his stop-motion animation portraying migrant Berenice Sariento Chávez.

Images: Stills from “Portrait of Anthony S. Fauci,” 2022. Copyright Hugo Crosthwaite. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. Acquired by NPG through the generosity of Anonymous; Michael Hollander; Walter and Patricia Moore

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Please stop by to see Charles Yuen’s solo exhibition—“Slippery Harmonics of Imagined Phenomena”—November 4 through December 17 at 177 North 9th St. Brooklyn. We’d love to see you in person.

Images: “Supreme Injustice,” “Passage,” “Erasure,” "Tree Gathering”

David Scher’s commission for public space in The Edge has recently been installed. Please check out this work if you are in Williamsburg, N 6th St.