Up Close with Bob Dilworth: “Telling Without Words”

BD in his Studio (self-portrait, 2008), painting by Bob Dilworth

My purpose is to tell of bodies which have been transformed into shapes of a different kind. —Ovid, Metamorphoses Professor and painter Bob Dilworth often tackles issues of race, culture, ethnicity, family, heritage, and xenophobia through metaphor and allegory in his paintings. He says that his portraits gesture towards moments in art history that run parallel […]

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