The Gallery at The Marmara-Manhattan Brings Art Lovers Face to Face with American Painter Will Corwin NEW YORK, January 2002 - "Face It," an exhibition by American painter Will Corwin, will be on display from January 17 through April 17, 2002 at The Gallery at The Marmara-Manhattan. Recently declared the "it" boy of the downtown art scene by the East Village paper The Villager, Corwin's fascination with the human face is the inspiration for his latest show. Corwin creates his paintings using high-gloss enamel acrylics on plaster attached to wooden panels and smoothed using a plexi-glass sheet. This casting process generates air bubbles, adding eerie texture to the painting and making the image of the face just one layer of the piece. "An artist is somebody who doesn't simply look at the world but interprets what he sees - that's exactly what Will Corwin does with this exhibit," said Zishan Ugurlu, curator at The Gallery at The Marmara-Manhattan. "He has the unique ability to look at a face and see its distinct elements as well as the experience that helped shape it. " After receiving his BA from Princeton University, Corwin went to London to work as an assistant to Richard Patterson, whose work appeared in the "Sensation" exhibit. In the past few years, Corwin's work has been exhibited in galleries including La MaMa La Galleria, The Seventh and Second Gallery, The Life Club, and The Lucas Gallery.