Visitors to the exhibition are initially greeted by a monumental sculpture of the artist’s head and face rendered in fragmented, intersecting planes of painted plywood. . . . Helfgott’s reductive title for the piece, Detail , playfully undercuts the primacy of an image that variously recurs in other works. . . . Discovery of the self, in all of its psychological complexities and ramifications, is foremost among his concerns . . . —Ashley Kistler
Gallery OneGallery OneInterrupted Pantograph drawings in pencil, overdrawn with ink, on inkjet prints on wood panels 36 x 24 in., 2007–08Sense of Humor Pantograph drawings in pencil, overdrawn with ink, on inkjet prints on wood panels 24 x 36 in., 2007–08Je Ne Sais Pas Pantograph drawings in pencil, overdrawn with ink, on inkjet prints on wood panels 24 x 36 in., 2007–08Yellow and Blue Autumn Pantograph drawings in pencil, overdrawn with ink, on inkjet prints on wood panels 24 x 36 in., 2007–08Essential Fault Pantograph drawings in pencil, overdrawn with ink, on inkjet prints on wood panels 24 x 36 in., 2007–08Social Intent Pantograph drawings in pencil, overdrawn with ink, on inkjet prints on wood panels 24 x 36 in., 2007–08Indian Wash Pantograph drawings in pencil, overdrawn with ink, on inkjet prints on wood panels 24 x 36 in., 2007–08Farewell, February Pantograph drawings in pencil, overdrawn with ink, on inkjet prints on wood panels 24 x 36 in., 2007–08The Comic and the Tragic Pantograph drawings in pencil, overdrawn with ink, on inkjet prints on wood panels 24 x 36 in., 2007–081, 2, 3, 4 Pantograph drawings in pencil, overdrawn with ink, on inkjet prints on wood panels 24 x 36 in., 2007–08Present Tense Pantograph drawings in pencil, overdrawn with ink, on inkjet prints on wood panels 24 x 36 in., 2007–08The Finger Pantograph drawings in pencil, overdrawn with ink, on inkjet prints on wood panels 36 x 24 in., 2007–08Evil Eye Pantograph drawings in pencil, overdrawn with ink, on inkjet prints on wood panels 24 x 36 in., 2007–08Not Regular Pantograph drawings in pencil, overdrawn with ink, on inkjet prints on wood panels 24 x 36 in., 2007–08Piece of Masonite Pantograph drawings in pencil, overdrawn with ink, on inkjet prints on wood panels 24 x 36 in., 2007–08Stop Thinking Pantograph drawings in pencil, overdrawn with ink, on inkjet prints on wood panels 24 x 36 in., 2007–08A Voice of Conscience Pantograph drawings in pencil, overdrawn with ink, on inkjet prints on wood panels 24 x 36 in., 2007–08Detail , 1986 Oil paint on plywood 66 x 108 x 84 in. Collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, John Barton Payne FundDetail (detail), 1986 Oil paint on plywood 66 x 108 x 84 in. Collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, John Barton Payne FundUntitled , 1976 Paint and hard board 28½ x 22½ x 7½ in.Untitled , 1990 Paint and photographs on paper 30 x 26 in.Untitled (detail), 1990 Paint and photographs on paper 30 x 26 in.
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