American Style Article

“It’s not so much reproducing what I see,” Gribin said, explaining her painting style. “It’s the body language or the gesture of the model that I’m trying to capture.”

"What I responded to in Liz's work," Leitzes says, "is the juxtaposition between sadness and beauty. There's a real emotion beneath the surface."

The figures are emotionally loaded. It's not, however, facial expressions that carry the emotion but their postures and placement in space.