The Menil Collection presents "The Iconic Portrait Strand by Nestor Topchy," the first museum exhibition of Houston-based artist Topchy’s contemporary portraits (b.1963).

Following the traditional techniques and materials of religious icons used by the Ukrainian Eastern Orthodox Church for the last 800 years, Topchy’s portraits will include a selection of more than one hundred paintings made over the last 15 years depicting the artist’s circle of friends and colleagues. He considers these contemporary portraits as a single and ongoing work of art, a corpus, that for Topchy, represents and honors his community.