Jessica Chastain has participated in work by four artists for W magazine: George Condo, Rineke Dijkstra, Chantal Joffe and Mickalene Thomas. Each made a work using Chastain as part of the piece, where she posed for a photograph or a painted portrait; in the case of George Condo, she inspired a work that is neither: “I wanted Jessica to become part of the painting and then appear to come off it, as if she were breaking free and leaving behind an empty space,” he said. (more…)