Portraits from MySpace and Facebook

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Artists Paul Campbell and Dominic Paul Moore paint portraits based on images from social networking sites. Above, one of Campbell's Facebook portraits. At left, Moore's "Mandii" (graphite on yupo), sourced from My(death)Space, an archival obituary site of MySpace users. Their work can currently be scene in a joint show titled "Profile Me" at Saint Mary's College in Notre Dame, Indiana. From the exhibition description:

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Paul Campbell and Dominic Paul Moore introduce
contemporary portraiture through sources from increasingly
popular internet social environments and bring transitory
self-absorbed profiles into the white static walls of Hammes
Gallery. In the two-person ehibition entitled "Profile Me"
curated by Sara Ebers, Campbell and Moore offer
different perspectives and objectives to this current trend.

Campbell and Moore make tangible the intangible and
raise issues of identification and social interactions as these
virtual profiles are removed from screen to canvas and from your
monitor to gallery walls.

Show preview (Dominicpaulmoore.com), "My(death)Space" (Domincpaulmoore.com),