Nathaniel Mary Quinn‘s practice operates within a world of visual metaphor, in which identifiable forms and features are mobilized to reveal aspects of character. Images taken from online sources, fashion magazines, and family photographs come together to form composite portraits that are at once neo-Dada and adamantly realist, evoking the intimacy and intensity of a face-to-face encounter. In combining his autobiographical history with an exhaustive range of source materials, Quinn’s figures strike a balance between the grotesque and the beautiful.