The Gaze: Martin Adalian
JoAnne Artman Gallery
Apr. 3, 2025 - Jun. 30, 2023
511A West 22nd Street
New York, 10011
PHONE (949) 510-5481
JoAnne Artman Gallery is pleased to present The Gaze, an exhibition of portraits by Martin Adalian. Referring to the concept of gaze within the confines of visual culture, the title and selected paintings explore how an audience perceives art’s depicted figures. Examining different strategies of the gaze, Adalian implicates the viewer by placing them in the position of both the observer and the observed. Mediating between the sense of invasion and invitation, viewers are coerced into different ways of seeing when they are confronted with direct gazes and personal spaces.