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How individual are memories? And, further extending this question, how collectively tangible do memories become when we share pictures of our
memories to one another? How can these depictions of memory be painted and which forms do they take on when personal, political, or social conflicts are nestled within memory? To find answers to these complex questions, Matthew Eguavoen, Jammie Holmes, Jerrell Gibbs, and Shaina McCoy take different approaches through portraiture in their unique painterly languages as well as in their choice of motifs, backgrounds, and symbols. However, they share similar …