Denis Sarazhin (Ukraine b. 1982).

      Denis Sarazhin’s portraits focus on the communicative potential of the human body. The artist denies the viewer the affirmation of eye contact by frequently obscuring his subjects’ faces, preferring instead to convey meaning in the kinetic forms of his figures. In his "Pantomime" series of paintings, Sarazhin captures a dramatic sense of motion through his subjects’ contorted poses, reminiscent of the distorted figural works of Expressionist painter Egon Schiele.