A selection of recent work by California-based artist Serena Cole (previously featured here). Cole’s watercolour and pencil renderings assign anonymous faces from found images with new roles, identities and origins as a way of exploring the complexities of being a woman in today’s world. See more images from “All This Useless Beauty” below or on display at Stephanie Chefas Projects in Portland, Oregon February 1 – 22.
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