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A First Look at Some Eclectic Faces in the Hamptons, From Cindy Sherman to Leonardo DiCaprio

by Steph Eckardt

ArtBase
Courtesy of the artist and Metro Pictures, New York

Next Friday, the likes of Cindy Sherman and Mickalene Thomas, along with more than 50 other artists, are sending some of their most prized portraits out east to the Hamptons for “About Face,” the New York Academy of Art’s annual summer exhibition at the Southampton Arts Center. And despite being co-curated this time around by an Academy newcomer, Scott Avett of the band the Avett Brothers, there’ll be plenty of familiar faces, too: Leonardo DiCaprio will be showing up thanks to one of Yung Jake’s emoji masterpieces, taking his place alongside the writer E. L. Doctorow, as painted by Eric Fischl, and Bob Colacello, who can be seen through a hunk of Dustin Yellin-constructed glass. Preview those works, plus a Jean-Michel Basquiat owned by the artist’s pal, the late Glenn O’Brien, here.

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Courtesy of the artist and Metro Pictures, New York

Cindy Sherman, Untitled, 1982.

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Beth Rudin DeWoody collection

Nicole Eisenman, Inspiration, 2004.

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Courtesy of the artist and Mary Boone Gallery

Will Cotton, Ron, 2009.

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Scott Avett

Scott Avett, Fatherhood / Who’s Bleeding?, 2013.

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Rick and Monica Segal collection

Eric Fischl, E.L. Doctorow, 2005.

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Courtesy of the artist and Anna Zorina Gallery, New York

Patty Horing, The New Body, 2016.

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Heidi Elbers

Heidi Elbers, Stella, 2017.

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Courtesy of the artist and Salon 94

Lyle Ashton Harris, Waiters, Black Male Exhibition Dinner, New York, 1994, 2015.

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Courtesy of the artist and Tripoli Gallery of Contemporary Art

Yung Jake, leo, 2016.

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Rebecca Orcutt

Rebecca Orcutt, Sorry the Movie Wasn’t That Good, 2017.

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Courtesy of the artist and Salon 94

Laurie Simmons, How We See / Tatiana (Green), 2015.

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Courtesy of the artist and Kaufman Repetto, Milano/New York

Billy Sullivan, Keith, 2010-2012.

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Mickalene Thomas

Mickalene Thomas, I’ve Been Good to Me, 2015.

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Private collection

Dustin Yellin, Portrait of Bob Colacello, 2010.

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Bernardo Siciliano

Bernardo Siciliano, Social Network, 2017.

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David Kratz

David Kratz, Afternoon, 2008.

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Estate of Glenn O’Brien

Jean-Michel Basquiat, Untitled, 1981.