The faces in this group of quirky Expressionist portraits slip and slide into grotesque masks under the artist's loose brushstrokes, rich textures and bold manipulations of color.

"Rocky DiFazio," Edward Miller's quirky portrait of a boxer incongruously relaxing in a suburban living room, uses a framed photograph as a surrogate for the hidden face.

Best of show is a hard call, but Jim Nutt's "Pug," a quirky portrait with the concentrated perfection of Northern Renaissance painting, is a strong candidate (Smith).

His work now includes quirky, soulful portraits as well as evocative images, and his installations incorporate tiny snapshots alongside poster-size work taped up and down walls.

Three quirky, highly personal portraits explore the themes of racial and sexual identity by mixing memoir, literary criticism and reflections on politics and psychology.

Gary Beacom contributed two quirky portraits of solitude that proved a gifted skater can do just about anything on ice.

Whit Stillman's HIGHLY regarded 1990 film "Metropolitan," a poetic, quirky, documentarylike portrait of a group of New York debutantes and their young escorts, was made for only $300,000.

Johann Louw offers two curious and quirky portraits that show the backs of the heads of his subjects, while Speelman Mahlangu balances fluid compositions with wild colors and symbolic forms.

At this fair, his quirky portraits can be seen at the Hackett-Freedman Gallery of San Francisco and the Forum and the Michael Rosenfeld galleries of New York.

Inside the cool gallery we discover a range of pieces on the theme of "revolution", simple photographs of landscapes and lucha libre (Mexican wrestling), and quirky portraits of bandits.