Brooklyn-based artist Helen Robinson creates paintings that investigate forms of self-expression and representation. Her conceptual portraits explore the limitless potential of the human figure as a subject while diving into questions about identity and self. Her paintings are all derived from her own photographs and studies and are documentary in style. While each of her series are different and distinct, Helen’s body of work as a whole embraces different forms of communication such as body language, clothing, color, and symbolism, as well as a lack of a countenance element. By omitting the face, her paintings evolve from just traditional portraits and aim to create a relationship between artwork and viewer. The person in the painting is someone, but at the same time, can be no one. Without major identifying facial features, the figures in her paintings become ciphers for her viewer’s own imaginative range of memories and interpretations. Throughout her work, Helen explores the human experience through an introspective lens, and hopes her viewers will do the same.