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On View: Vincent Xeus’s’ “Love — Fragmented Traditions” at Last Rites Gallery

Vincent Xeus's shadowy portraits reference the Italian and Dutch masters. But rather than directly emulating the techniques of Caravaggio and Rembrandt, he builds on their styles to create works with a moody, haunted ambiance. He scratches and smudges his anachronistic portraits with his paintbrush, making them appear broken and somehow corrupt. His subjects' faces become ghostly and unrecognizable — their images, relics of an opulent society with a dark underbelly. Xeus's new work is currently on view in his solo show, "Love — Fragmented Traditions," showing through February 14 at Last Rites Gallery in New York.

Vincent Xeus’s shadowy portraits reference the Italian and Dutch masters. But rather than directly emulating the techniques of Caravaggio and Rembrandt, he builds on their styles to create works with a moody, haunted ambiance. He scratches and smudges his anachronistic portraits with his paintbrush, making them appear broken and somehow corrupt. His subjects’ faces become ghostly and unrecognizable — their images, relics of an opulent society with a dark underbelly. Xeus’s new work is currently on view in his solo show, “Love — Fragmented Traditions,” showing through February 14 at Last Rites Gallery in New York.

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