Portraits Without A Face: Gideon Rubin’s Intimate Paintings Capture Subjects In Personal Moments

Stephanie Wade, Ignant Magazine, August 2, 2019

Israeli contemporary artist Gideon Rubin is known for his paintings of anonymous subjects caught in moments of intimacy. Yet ironically, rather than painting from life, Rubin has a tendency to borrow his subjects from photographs in vintage albums that he has collected from all around the world.