PAUL P. Profiled by Mark Harris for T: The New York Times Style Magazine

October 31, 2024

"The bewitching quality of Paul P.’s portraits is that their creator, a serious, studious and engaging Canadian, is aesthetically bilingual. He can speak about his indebtedness to the tradition of artists like John Singer Sargent and James McNeill Whistler, but also about the decades of research hours he’s put in at Toronto’s Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives — now called the ArQuives — from which he’s sourced the subjects of his paintings, poring over images of post-Stonewall, pre-AIDS magazine and gay-porn erotica for the face, the look, the come-on, the sulk or the mood that might inspire his next work."

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