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Paul Gervais isn’t always kind to himself when painting a self-portrait. “I tend to be more generous with the portraits I do with other people,” he says. “But the truth is I like myself a lot for that very reason. I’m not trying to flatter people, and I hope these are deeper, artistically, than a mere flattering image.”
His solo show at the Boca Raton Museum of Art, Paul Gervais: Faces and Forms, on view until May 30, juxtaposes portraiture with his paintings of imagined objects. “A still life is usually a painting of real objects that are arranged by the artist in a pleasant way. These are not that,” he explains. “These objects don’t exist. I make them up, and the basis of them is drawn from timeless forms that have existed in all cultures across the globe.” More in link.