iPhone Face

About this exhibition

Flatline Gallery is pleased to announce iPhone Face, on view August 7 through August 23, 2026. The group exhibition features works by Chicago based artists Andrew Orne Glass, Patricia Kirby, Reilly Martin, Jackie Pyles, Sydney Szymczak, Connor Totten, Emma Xhaxho, and Ivy Youtongzhang. Spanning across many mediums, the exhibition investigates the conditions surrounding the self and the celebrity, blurring the lines between adaptation and exploitation. iPhone Face explores the identity of the flesh transformed into digital bodies, and inversely, the flatness of images applied to the human experience. Back-and-forth, manipulating each other, physical and online realities are accelerated, expanded in an unseeable scale. Body modification and image manipulation intertwine where individuality and vulnerability are estranged from the body through rapid image sharing. A combination of painting, textile, video, and sculpture borrow and reevaluate the conversion of an image into a physical object, investigating the fears and cravings they expose. In this collection of works, formal qualities of images are deconstructed, asking questions of how we assign visual elements of a photo to personal identity and self alterations.

via The Visualist