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Lessons from a Starfish or Self Portrait at Work Agnes Walden
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Through her intimate paintings and drawings, Agnes explores the limitations and potentialities of representation in portraiture.
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Lessons from a Starfish or Self Portrait at Work' takes inspiration from a piece of criticism by Eva Hayward in which the Gender & Women's Studies scholar gleans transsexual meaning from an Antony & the Johnsons song released over a decade before frontwoman Anohni disclosed her transness to the public. "Do not some starfish regenerate themselves from injury?" asks Hayward. With the transsexual as with the starfish, "[t]he cut is possibility...part of the ongoing materialization by which a transsexual tentatively and mutably becomes."
About the Artist
Agnes Walden is a representational painter concerned with queer and trans subjectivities.
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- 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
