Ewa Juszkiewicz: Recent Paintings

Ewa Juszkiewicz: Recent Paintings showcases the artist’s portraits of women, which turn genre conventions inside out. Classical in method but subversive in content, Juszkiewicz’s paintings deconstruct ideals of feminine beauty and the contexts in which they have arisen and persist.

Ewa Juszkiewicz paints surreal oil-on-canvas portraits of women that turn genre conventions inside out. Beginning by producing a likeness of a historical European painting—her sources date from the Renaissance thr...