Just found this stunningly direct portrait by Karen Kilimnik on roberta's (of Artblog's roberta and libby) flickr photos. I'm not familiar with Kilimnik's work (though she and the art writer are contemporaries, both born in 1955). Well, another site has her born in 1957. But whatever. More works by the artist can be found on artnet.
She has her hip side as evidenced here or here or here. And I must attest that I don't get the irony-coated element in some of what she does. The art writer is not necessarily anti-hip. The art writer just doesn't like its being endlessly the boring requirement.
Kilimnik's portrait is, I think, really amazing. It's nice to see that she can really paint. However, being able to paint like this, certainly it was important that she have some other, ironic hipster side -- if she wanted to survive, one supposes.
It reminds me of Richter's 1977 Betty. Neither image is just a portrait. In both the artist realized that a face, simply a face, is the radical thing. A face is the radical thing.
It needs some repeating.
[Above in order: The Art Writer's drawing, Richter's Betty, and Karen Kilimnik's Portrait of a girl.]
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