Proudfoot Brothers (USA)
Eddie and Charlie Proudfoot have exhibited their intensely emotional art alongside works by Andy Warhol, Salvador Dali and Francis Bacon.
The reclusive brothers live together in an apartment in New York’s Lower East Side. They spent periods of their lives in foster care, psychiatric hospitals and, one of them, in prison. They do not share details of their age, family or past life.
The brothers will not explain why almost every picture they create is an appropriated portrait with the eyes blanked out. All they say is: "It changes the picture to make it ours, but it is like we are working with the people who made them. We don't want to promote our work because we would have to meet all the strangers, and people may be nice but we don't really know how to chat with people we don't know, we get nervous in crowds. We are happy people like our pictures though."
Their work has been featured in media such as CNN and the Mirror.