There is a saying by Thoreau: “Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.” Gabe Gault is a portrait painter who, with each and every piece he makes, does so with truth. To de- pict someone as powerful as Cor- nell West or Martin Luther King requires a certain caution and care in order to show humanity in figures who stand as giants to us. Gabe does that with the ease of a brushstroke. When we met in his studio, he had just gotten home from starting the largest mural in the Midwest; some would be panicking about the hundreds of thousands of buckets of paint required to accomplish such a task, but to Gabe, it was just about dippin the brush. He smiled easily as we sat down amongst his paints and spray cans - all that mattered in that moment was finding his truth.