June 6, 2002
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Julian Opie

The Worcester Art Museum (which was recently host to a wonderful exhibit of Weegee photographs) has a huge, inkjet portrait mural by Julian Opie.

I find Opie's portraits and figures fascinating and haunting. The drawing is very concise -- essentially comic symbolism -- but so carefully realized that the effect seems just short of realism.