https://contemporaryartumd.artinterp.org/omeka/files/original/6c894b21eda851e80c3f763d40d8345f.jpg 93f7efa02048321be61f8a80c097510d Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Oil on canvas Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 40 x 32 inches Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource <em>Piano Song</em> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2011 Relation A related resource 2010-2011 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource JPEG Type The nature or genre of the resource Still Image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2011.1.7 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Jenny Morgan Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Courtesy of the artist and Driscoll Babcock Galleries Description An account of the resource Jenny Morgan begins her tensely psychological portraits by photographing her subjects, often people she knows, and painting them in painstaking detail. She then obliterates parts of the surface, sanding away and peeling back skins of paint until the figure appears spectral and transparent in some areas and palpably raw and real in others. The result can be spatially disorienting, as in Piano Song where face and torso seem to flatten and recede while hands appear variously thick and fleshy or striated as if they were unevenly printed reproductions. Building on traditions of portraiture, Morgan’s work has a decidedly contemporary presence, emphasizing the elusive, multifaceted, and interior qualities of the human beings they would represent.