It’s been seven months since Todd Mrozinski became The Pfister Hotel’s artist in residence and he has already created more than 100 paintings. Mrozinski, who currently produces primarily shadow paintings, traces peoples’ profiles and then paints them, creating portraits which look uncannily like the model despite the lack of detail.
“The shadows give us just enough, and the viewer’s mind completes the rest,” says Mrozinski.
The shadow painting models are usually Pfister guests and staff or friends and colleagues of Mrozinski’s. “It’s a collaboration between myself and whoever is sitting and loaning me their shadow,” he says.
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