Portraits at an Exhibition Paperback – June 3, 2025

Portraits at an Exhibition presents 17 full-color paintings and 11 sketches created by artist, Sylvia Funk. Included in the book are 14 songs composed by Gary Funk that were inspired by Sylvia Funk's paintings. Her portraits capture the desperate face of a destitute homeless woman, the worried brow of a mother dealing with the responsibilities of raising her profoundly autistic son, the gripped jaw of a young businessman facing political and economic headwinds and the high concentration of a lonely poet plying his craft. Her art explores a little girl's fantasy world, the escape of an autistic boy's mind into the worlds of music and a river, and the simple joy of a child brushing her cat in the morning light. The portraits touch in viewers a rare part by revealing to them their very own hearts through the artist's capture in acrylics of "...something not there". The brilliant combination of painting, poetry and music presented in Portraits at an Exhibition leads readers to become reacquainted with people they already know and with past experiences. It is a book for anyone who finds pleasure in color, form, shadow, light, sadness, effervescence, words and music that walk alongside the human condition. Read more