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Description: Ilya Shkipin's portraits are not for the faint of heart. Eschewing traditional notions of beauty and likeness, the San Francisco Bay Area artist uses distorted forms, jarring colors, and raw, gestural brushstrokes to capture the tumult and complexity of the human psyche. In Shkipin's hands, the face becomes a landscape of emotion, a battleground where the self is constantly being constructed, deconstructed, and reconfigured. These are not just paintings, but psychological excavations, inviting the viewer to
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