“There You Are” Tilda & Sandro! 01 / 25 / 12

Sandro Kopp’s (pictured right) “There You Are” opened last night at Lehmann Maupin Gallery in New York’s Lower East Side. The exhibition presents a refreshing juxtaposition of old and new, melding an art form as traditional as the painted portrait with a most-modern medium of communication: the Skype session. Kopp painted each image via Skype. The subjects include Ryan McGinley, Frances McDormand, Michael Stipe, Waris Ahluwalia and the actress and Kopp’s girlfriend, Tilda Swinton (pictured left)—all of whom attended last nights opening. Other guests at the opening included Jim Jarmusch, America Ferrera, Chad Muska, Devin James, Egon Zippel and Terence Koh. “There You Are,” presented by Istanbul ’74, remains on view through February 4. — Mallory Passuite for Aleim