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Portrait Night

June 2, 2025 @ 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Portrait Night

June 2, 2025 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm

Portrait Night is coming to GalPar.

An evening of live portrait-making with local artists and neighbors.

June 2, 6:30–9PM | 281 Maple St., Brooklyn

Curated by Emily Waters and hosted by Gallery Particulier, this event brings together sitters and artists in a friendly, intimate portrait session open to our community.

Neighbors—come be drawn, painted, sketched. Or just observe the process up close.

Spots are limited. Send a message to contact@galleryparticulier.org to sit for a portrait. Tell us a few words about yourself and we’ll pair you with an artist.

Sitting is free. If the sitter so wishes, we will produce a canvas print from the painting which the sitter can purchase. It will take a couple of weeks. The price will vary depending on the size of the canvas, between $60 and $120.

Artists: We’re inviting artists to take part in this opportunity. Bring your materials, create a portrait, and join an evening that celebrates representation, observation, and local connection. You will enjoy diverse sitters, and contribute to our mission: share visual arts in innovative ways. You will provide the experience of contemporary art to a local resident.

Artists can work from a photograph (taken there and then), they can complete the work at home. The artwork remains theirs unless they choose to make a different arrangement with the sitter, – and they retain the intellectual property, naturally

Gallery Particulier will document the evening, and promote the artists participating.

RSVP: contact@galleryparticulier.org

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Participating Artist:

Torild Stray

Torild Stray

An acclaimed artist who finds meaning in painting human beings with a soft, melancholic palette. Her work often explores memory and emotion, especially in recent tributes to 9/11. Whether in Norway or New York, she uses painting to express the depth of human experience beyond words.

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Elliot Johnson

A visionary artist from Queens who brings Black subjects to life through intricate, dreamlike detail. With a deep love for portraying people, his work blends graffiti roots with a delicate, expressive touch, capturing the complexity of human experience in every brushstroke and hatch.

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Samara Chalumeau

Samara is a Haitian American artist based in Brooklyn who creates emotional portraits using oil paint, watercolor, and pen. Her work honors her heritage and celebrates identity, community, and the richness of the human experience.
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Maya Ines Cariño

Lupe Inès Cariño

Lupe explores identity through vibrant, multi-media works. With a strong focus on human subjects, their art blends cultural pride and personal expression, capturing people with bold color, rich texture, and emotional depth across painting, embroidery, and more.
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Cori Jin

A passionate young artist who finds joy in bringing ideas to life with brushes and acrylic paint. They especially love working with bold, vibrant colors and exploring the emotional power of color in each piece. Painting is their favorite way to express what words often can’t.
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Jenny Belin

Jenny Belin is a Brooklyn-based painter whose work explores themes of feminism, power, and beauty through portraits of women, as well as vivid depictions of cats and flowers. Her art combines expressive brushwork with a sharp eye for detail, celebrating both iconic and everyday subjects. Belin’s work has been shown widely in New York and reflects a deep commitment to highlighting female voices and forms.
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Ksenia Shevchenko

I’m a Brooklyn-based painter exploring emotional nuance and psychological states through stylized portraiture and layered textures. With a background in art education, I’m drawn to the ways visual language can express what often goes unspoken. I embrace distortion, ambiguity, and the beauty of imperfection — aiming to create work that feels both intimate and slightly off-kilter.
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Kylie Lu

I’m a New York–based illustrator from Shanghai, currently a junior in Illustration at Parsons, who loves drawing, painting, animation, also filming vlogs to record everyday life while also sharing my creative journey as an influencer.
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Mayowa Nwadike

Mayowa Nwadike is a self-taught Nigerian artist based in Manhattan whose work centers on storytelling—exploring themes like gender roles, toxic masculinity, and the immigrant experience.
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Brian Oh

Brian worked extensively as a filmmaker and video producer. Returning to his fine arts roots, he began working on drawings and paintings to seek the improvisational, creative freedom.
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Liz Burgis

Liz is a 26 year old visual artist. She likes capturing moments that catch her eye and looking closely at things. A lot of her work comes from walking around with her sketchbook in hand. She believes in a free Palestine.
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Stanley Chu

Stanley is an emerging artist based in Brooklyn, NY. He primarily works in oil paint, and uses expressive color and brushstrokes in his work, which ranges from landscapes to portraiture.
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Seana Kim

Seana is an artist that started her passion for art while living in Singapore. Her passions lie within acrylic realism portraits in either full monochromatic or color palette.
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Emily Waters

Emily Waters is a Brooklyn-based artist and educator whose vivid illustrations and design work reflect a strong engagement with history, identity, and community. She also likes to explore themes of matrilineal heritage and female resilience through layered portraiture and symbolic storytelling. Beyond the gallery, she shares her art with the public by placing original works in a display box outside her Windsor Terrace home, offering them freely to neighbors.

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  • Date: June 2, 2025
  • Time:
    6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

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