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    1. Emerging Artists To show our appreciation for emerging artists, we’re going to highlight a talented up-and-coming artist every day this week!  Today, we’re focusing on Jamaican artist Kamar Thomas, who challenges the relational and contextual construction of identity through a series of oil-painted self portraits. The artist first covers his face in paint, and then takes a photograph, edits it, and finally uses that image as a reference to produce a painting. Thomas is represented by New York’s Susan L. Halper Fine Arts.  Emerging Artists To show our appreciation for emerging artists, we’re going to highlight a talented up-and-coming artist every day this week!  Today, we’re focusing on Jamaican artist Kamar Thomas, who challenges the relational and contextual construction of identity through a series of oil-painted self portraits. The artist first covers his face in paint, and then takes a photograph, edits it, and finally uses that image as a reference to produce a painting. Thomas is represented by New York’s Susan L. Halper Fine Arts. 

      October 24, 2012

      Emerging Artists

      To show our appreciation for emerging artists, we’re going to highlight a talented up-and-coming artist every day this week! 

      Today, we’re focusing on Jamaican artist Kamar Thomas, who challenges the relational and contextual construction of identity through a series of oil-painted self portraits. The artist first covers his face in paint, and then takes a photograph, edits it, and finally uses that image as a reference to produce a painting.

      Thomas is represented by New York’s Susan L. Halper Fine Arts. 

      Tags: kamar thomas, emerging art, galleries,

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