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Holley is volcanically self-expressive in his visual art, whether rending tiny wires into human profiles or planning massive statues from uncut granite and gleaming metal.

From Washington Post • Mar. 10, 2023

Buttigieg seems to embody a vision of the meritocrat as influencer, giving Clinton-era ideals a contemporary, self-expressive twist.

From The New Yorker • May 2, 2019

But social media campaigns, while self-expressive and cathartic, are one thing.

From Slate • Oct. 29, 2017

In contrast, Fierro’s purposeful smudgings and scrapings and smearings convey her uneasiness about gestural expressionism and the self-expressive bombast that often goes with it.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2017

She appreciated her limitations in such matters—how far she as yet was from the knowledge necessary to forming a permanent and self-expressive style.

From Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise by Phillips, David Graham