Rick Ashley – Michael

January 14 – February 26

Larrabee Gallery

Rick Ashley has been photographing Michael, his brother-in-law with Down Syndrome, since 1975. Their collaboration challenges viewers to reevaluate their assumptions about Michael and, by extension, others. Michael is a group of individual portraits meant to be seen together as a single portrait and includes oil paintings, historic photographs, and multiple photographs.

In 2017, one of the Michael portraits was chosen by curators at the National Portrait Gallery for their exhibit The Outwin 2016: American Portraiture Today. Michael has traveled to museums across the country until August of 2018.