Fascination with faces gives life to portraits

The Dispatch wrote Fascination with faces gives life to portraits

Thursday, December 6, 2007

BY BILL MAYR

For The Columbus Dispatch

The work of Yotam Zohar is slightly out of the ordinary for a young artist: The figurative painter creates portraits.

His pieces are on view in the Gallerie les Beaux Arts in the King-Lincoln District.

To the 23-year-old senior at Ohio State University, painting portraits is not a whim.

“I think they are a portal to something much greater than just an image of a person,” he said. “You have a narrative going on, emotions. For me, . . . (a portrait) is an attempt to reveal other worlds through the plane of a painting.

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