Anthony Cudahy, Tempest (rooftop), 2021
Hales is delighted to announce that Anthony Cudahy's first institutional solo exhibition in the United States, Anthony Cudahy: Spinneret is now open at the Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Maine, US through 21 July 2024. Spanning the last half-decade of his career, this survey of over 30 significant paintings-including brand new work-will unpack Cudahy's richly layered practice.
Cudahy's figurative paintings piece together enigmatic scenes of specific objects and equivocal environments from interwoven references drawn from Queer archives, art history, film, poetry, friends, and his own autobiography. His fluid application of paint and idiosyncratic palette-at moments sullen, earthen, corporeal and at others high-key, acidic, artificial-animates the ongoing push and pull between the real and surreal across his practice. Through his art, Cudahy explores the hazy slippages of subjectivity in the digital age. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue published by Monacelli Press.
Cudahy's figurative paintings piece together enigmatic scenes of specific objects and equivocal environments from interwoven references drawn from Queer archives, art history, film, poetry, friends, and his own autobiography. His fluid application of paint and idiosyncratic palette-at moments sullen, earthen, corporeal and at others high-key, acidic, artificial-animates the ongoing push and pull between the real and surreal across his practice. Through his art, Cudahy explores the hazy slippages of subjectivity in the digital age. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue published by Monacelli Press.
Anthony Cudahy
Spinneret
Ogunquit Museum of American Art
543 Shore Rd
Ogunquit, ME 03907
United States
12 April 2024 - 21 July 2024
April 12, 2024
