Using photography, collage, tapestry, and video, Erin M. Riley, Leah Schrager, Alexa Meade, and more reveal the meanings of self-representation today.

Inspired by Virginia Woolf's words in the title, this painting is a contemplation on compassion. Image is of a hand delicately touching water. A painterly reflection of the hand is portrayed in the water's ripples.

This is an oil painting I did over Thanksgiving holiday at my parents house. I was assigned to do a painting of someone's reflection painted in an analogous color palette. I had a few different ideas all with children that I was thinking of doing. Here is one of my sketch book pages: I chose to do a little girl scrutinizing and admiring herself in a mirror. I painted it in a yellow analogous palette (the color is not showing up perfectly in the photo but it's close). My four-year-old sister…

Simon Hennessey is a Birmingham, UK based artist who paints realistic images of famous landmarks around the world as reflected in the lense...

Pamela Gilliland Water Reflection 5, 2017 oil on canvas 30 x 30 in