Portraiture
"I�ve always thought of art as being the perfect marriage of things seen
and things dreamed," Stephen Alcorn recently observed towards the end of
a long, thoughtful conversation about his work. "It�s that marriage of
the way we see things in our imagination and the way we perceive them
physically in nature that creates tension and dynamic. Where do you find
the right meeting point? In portraiture, for example, you can think of
an egg and embellish it and arrive at a portrait. And you can also see
the actual head in all its detail, subtlety, and complexity and distill
it and arrive at an egg. The key is finding the middle ground where
there�s a degree of distillation and abstraction without forsaking the
character traits that give the specific subject its individuality."
— Carol Stevens, Executive Editor, Print Magazine
From Choice Cuts, a cover story on the art of Stephen Alcorn
Print Magazine, January-February issue, 1994
