Brian Calvin is a familiar and constantly evolving face. The fact that he paints himself into the works and the shows makes sense of this, but Calvin has continually expanded and contracted his visual language as he and those around him age. In that Katzian universe of the portrait being a marker of time, that the familiarity of the artist and subject giving depth to the composition, Calvin is exploring himself in the context of those around him. Wavelengths at Corvi-Mora in London is broken into two bodies of works, those self-portraits and a series of female heads that has long been part of his practice. As always, they feel fresh, bright, abstracted but literal. This is Calvin's life, and we continue to grow with him. —Evan Pricco