The Patient Looks Back: Portraits of My Therapist—Solo Exhibition by Joyce Polance
Joyce Polance
Joyce Polance, Gray, 2025, oil on canvas, finger painting, 36 x 36 in. Courtesy of the artist.
In The Patient Looks Back: Portraits of My Therapist, Catskill-based painter Joyce Polance reverses therapy’s usual direction of attention by turning the patient’s gaze toward the therapist. Painted in oil entirely with her fingers, the three-year series moves between likeness and disruption, testing how much close looking can—and cannot—reveal.
