National Portrait Gallery

By IE Sommsin

Artist’s statement: I watch the news, and many faces that pass in the river of news strike me as utterly strange. Some are haunted; some have a childish malice. I’ve felt compelled to capture their essence in pencil, ink, and paint. These images are the first attempts to create a portrait gallery of a bizarre time in our political and cultural history.

IE Sommsin is a writer and visual artist who did too much time in graduate school. He divides the year between two political bubbles, San Francisco and his ancestral woods in Kentucky.

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