LZ Project Space is pleased to present One Thousand Faces, an installation by K. M. Copham. A tiled grid of colorful portraits from floor to ceiling takes over all surfaces of the gallery including transparent transfers over the windows, allowing passersby on the street to see faces through faces. Inside the gallery, visitors walk around columns of “totem pole”-like faces that occupy the center of the space as sculptural objects.

Since 2005, Copham has painted over 1000 unique portraits in oil on 10” square boards. Her subjects hail from around the world and represent divergent ethnicities, genders, and stages of life. She completes these dynamic, impressionist snapshots in one casual sitting lasting about an hour, capturing inherent characteristics of her subjects quickly and intuitively as their interaction unfolds naturally.

Limiting her palette to six mainly primary colors results in a cohesive powerful installation with a pop art sensibility. This veritable sea of faces both de-personalizes the individual while simultaneously paying homage to the inimitability of each person. Like a walk down any given street in New York City, this installation reflects the crush of humanity surrounding us, a blur of indistinct color and shape ultimately made of distinct, unique human beings.