| Author/Contributor(s): | Hessel, Katy; Small, Lisa; Juszkiewicz, Ewa; Higgie, Jennifer |
| Publisher: | Gagosian / Rizzoli |
| Date: | 3/3/2026 |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Condition: | NEW |
Ewa Juszkiewicz paints surreal oil-on-canvas portraits of women that turn genre conventions inside out. Beginning by producing a likeness of a historical European painting—her sources date from the Renaissance through the nineteenth century—Juszkiewicz expertly imitates the original’s technique and style but replaces the subject’s face with a decorative construction of her own. In some compositions, she swathes her sitter’s head in folds of fabric or lush floral arrangements; in others, she redirects an elaborately plaited hairstyle to shield the subject’s face from view. The results of this process narrate a history of erasure that runs throughout the Western canon of female portraiture.