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“The most impressive work in the show is Linda Sormin’s gargantuan agglomeration of tangled clay tubes, numerous video screens of varying size, a section of a spiral staircase, a dragon head used in Chinese festival dances, and detritus, arcing through the air within and around a zigzag metal framework.”

The scale of this work is defiantly human, reflecting the artist’s stated desire to make a world without resorting to the easy grandiosity of immense canvases.

From DNA to human emotions, “Speculative Portraits” explores how contemporary artists are drawing from technology and scientific research to expand on ideas of portraiture and identity.