Opening Reception: Saturday, Dec. 2 - 6:30-9 pm
Studio ArtFarm 120 E 4th Ave. Mount Dora, FL
Dawrby is a Visual Artist born in New York and raised in Florida practicing in Painting,
Illustration, and Graphic Design. Inspired by pop art and portraiture, his work focuses
on the translation of his subject’s personality to canvas.
His Familiar Faces series are a collection of portraits completed at pop up events
throughout Greater Orlando. Inspired by twisted perspective, a Near Eastern and
Ancient Egyptian technique used in art having a multi-perspective representation from
a single viewpoint. He approaches portraiture with contemporary essentialism,
emphasizing basic facial features of the subjects to show personality using linework.
The Familiar Faces are visual riddles that are meant to overstimulate the fusiform
gyrus, the part of the brain that recognizes faces.