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Starfish Sacred Heart Agnes Walden
$1,200
Through her intimate paintings and drawings, Agnes explores the limitations and potentialities of representation in portraiture.
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Agnes' new work diverges in terms of its vocabulary. Where we once saw only what Agnes observed firsthand, albeit warped and obscured to defend her subjects' integrity, we now see non-observed objects: a pair of transparent starfish, a scrim of circling flowers. Their inclusion speaks to the artist's increasing fascination with Catholic artwork found in early modern Europe-a return of sorts to the kind of imagery that flooded her youth, as she was raised Catholic. She borrowed the exhibition's title in which this work appears, Aurora consurgens, Latin for "rising dawn," from a medieval alchemical manuscript, which, she tells me, is filled with "lots of really insane illustrations with lots of gender stuff happening in them."
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
