Low Resolution Portrait Gallery explores the aesthetic potential of digital reproduction in the fine arts. A selection of famous portrait paintings from all phases of art history is rendered in their lowest possible resolution: the fewest number of square pixels into which the proportions of each canvas can be subdivided. The resulting painting negates the facial features of the portrait and reduces it to a geometric arrangement of average color values. At the same time a new artistic persona emerges, emphasizing the essential composition of the painting and celebrating its figurative character.

Adele 3x3px, 54”x54”
Battista 3x2px, 18”x12”
Beatrice 4x2px, 32”x16”
Blue Marilyn 3x3px, 40”x40”
Cabeza 3x2px, 66”x44”
Dead Ulrike 2x2px, 24.5”x24.5”
Federico 3x2px, 18”x12”
Frida 4x3px, 24”x18”
Jeanne 2x1px, 18”x9”
Leopold 2x1px, 18”x9”
Marie 4x3px, 44”x33”
Margarita 2x1px, 30”x15”
Man with Pipe 6x3px, 36”x18”
Meisje 6x5px, 18”x15”
Mona 3x2px, 30”x20”
Olga 5x4px, 23”x18.4”
Rem 3x3px, 22”x22”
Senecio 1px, 15”x15”
Vincent 5x4px, 25.25”x20.25”
Young Ulrike 4x4px, 24.5”x24.5”
(All digital print on canvas)

Type: Artwork
Place: New York
Year: 2019 (August 2019)
Collaboration: Daniel Schütz, Georg Windeck
Team: Lucas Chao