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Painter Livien Yin: Their Portraits Contain Multitudes

Painter Livien Yin: Their Portraits Contain Multitudes

a portrait of an asian man

The portraits in the Livien Yin: Thirsty exhibit at Cantor Arts Center exist in the 21st century’s aftermath of such classical portraiture, comfortable companions to high-art graphic novels. Yin’s color palette, like Matisse, veers toward the fictional. The storytelling is imagined across a muted field of dreamy technicolors.

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