In this riveting new show of oil painting, Renee E. Rubin boldy restructures the Old Masters’ self-portraits, bringing to bear her discerning eye and consummate classical technique. In a unique touch, the paintings extend beyond the frame, creating a trompel’oeil effect within the painting. As art critic Ed McCormack wrote: “Renee E. Rubin is an artists possessed of natural gifts for which many realists would gladly kill. However, it is her winning combination of courage, conceptual chutzpah, human sympathy and irreverence that makes Rubin such a consummately engaging and ultimately rewarding painter.”
