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Painting by Agnes Walden titled "Book of Hours" - 1.

Book of Hours Agnes Walden

$3,200

Through her intimate paintings and drawings, Agnes explores the limitations and potentialities of representation in portraiture.
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Materials Oil on canvas
24 x 36 x 1

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Book of Hours' takes its name from the medieval devotional texts containing daily prayers and practices, or as Walden puts it: "Something that tells you how to live every day." At the center of the image, which Agnes describes as "overtly horny," sits a trans man with a testosterone patch on his left inner thigh. On his right, we can see what appears to be the glowing, golden imprint of yesterday's patch. Between his open legs, he has laid out an open book. Where the content of its pages should be visible to the viewer, there is instead a pattern painted in various flesh tones that evokes the patch motif.

Harron Walker

About the Artist

Agnes Walden is a representational painter concerned with queer and trans subjectivities.

News and Notables
  • Exhibited at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum faculty exhibit, 2021
  • The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant recipient, 2020
  • Solo exhibition, favors, at An Sylvia Exhibitions, 2020