As part of their mid-career survey Sic Transit Gloria Mundi: Industry of the Ordinary 2003-2013, at the Chicago Cultural Center, Industry of the Ordinary solicited a number of Chicago-based artists to make their portrait, in a wide variety of media. IOTO’s interest was in creating a collective work that reveals the artists behind the portraits, reflects on the place of the portrait in contemporary art practice and considers the motivations behind the enduring urge to fashion a likeness.

Mathew Paul Jinks
Born 1971, Ipswich, United Kingdom, www.mathewpauljinks.com
Rotational Pinhole Survey in the studio of Adam Brooks and Mathew Wilson, 2012
Archival inkjet print from 4" x 5" Silver Negative

Gary Justis and L. J. Douglas
Justis, born 1953, Wichita, Kansas, www.garyjustis.org
Douglas, born 1948, Sellersville, Pennsylvania, www.ljdouglas.com
New Mirror (portrait), 2012
Aluminum, projection unit, plastic, sound system