Painting reflection

Using photography, collage, tapestry, and video, Erin M. Riley, Leah Schrager, Alexa Meade, and more reveal the meanings of self-representation today.

This is an oil painting I did over Thanksgiving holiday at my parents house. I was assigned to do a painting of someone's reflection painted in an analogous color palette. I had a few different ideas all with children that I was thinking of doing. Here is one of my sketch book pages: I chose to do a little girl scrutinizing and admiring herself in a mirror. I painted it in a yellow analogous palette (the color is not showing up perfectly in the photo but it's close). My four-year-old sister…

"A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing...

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"When you look in the mirror, what do you see?" a portrait painting of a woman looking in the mirror by Elena Morozova. Painting a portrait is captivating. There is a kind of wordless communication that happens between the artist and the sitter during the process. It takes a lot of focus and attentiveness, and there is so much beauty and character to be found on the face of the person #portraitpainting #oilcanvaspainting #portraitoilpainting

Inspired by Virginia Woolf's words in the title, this painting is a contemplation on compassion. Image is of a hand delicately touching water. A painterly reflection of the hand is portrayed in the water's ripples.

You will barely believe your eyes at the sharp paintings by Simon Hennessey from Birmingham, UK. He capitalizes on reflections in sunglasses to portray

“Escalator” – Acrylic paint on canvas. (2018). Inspired by the mundane activity of shopping and the idea of movement. Location Lyon France. All of Graham Stringers acrylic paintings in canvas reflect the things around him. Documenting his daily life, searching for the beauty in the mundane, Graham creates snapshots of the ‘everyday’.

Michael Garmash was born in 1969 in Lugansk, Ukraine. He began painting at the age of three and started his formal education by six at the Lugansk Youth