This painting was recently included in an exhibition titled Loved & Observed at Hersh Fine Art.
A wonderful review of the exhibition by Flora Armetta was featured in American Arts Quartlery in July 2014. She graciously stated, “The soothingly somber colors of her clothing and background help focus attention on her face, where the modeling is succinctly achieved with small, individual planes of understated color, reminiscent in some ways of Lucian Freud or Philip Pearlstein. But whereas Freud’s application suggests dramatic psychology and Pearlstein’s an almost clinical dissection of the body, El-Bermani’s approach serves to highlight insight—her subject’s face becomes a marvelous collection of subtleties, hinting at great depths of feeling and character”.
