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Anthony Cudahy
a pearl caught between my teeth, GRIMM Keizersgracht 241, Amsterdam (NL), 29 October - 22 December 2022

Anthony Cudahy: a pearl caught between my teeth

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Works
  • Anthony Cudahy Fear painting, 2022 Oil on linen 182.9 x 182.9 cm | 72 x 72 in
    Anthony Cudahy
    Fear painting, 2022
    Oil on linen
    182.9 x 182.9 cm | 72 x 72 in
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  • Anthony Cudahy Eveningdawn (Reverse Pareidoliac Figure), 2022 Oil on linen 152.4 x 243.8 cm | 60 x 96 in
    Anthony Cudahy
    Eveningdawn (Reverse Pareidoliac Figure), 2022
    Oil on linen
    152.4 x 243.8 cm | 60 x 96 in
    Reserved
  • painted abstract image with main hues of red and green of a man leaning down at some shells on a red countertop. organic shapes float upward from the counter and are reflected on his scalp.
    Anthony Cudahy
    Broken Shells (narcissus loop), 2022
    Oil on linen
    152.4 x 121.9 cm | 60 x 48 in
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  • Anthony Cudahy Lattice (two apart), 2022 Acrylic on canvas 152.4 x 152.4 cm | 60 x 60 in
    Anthony Cudahy
    Lattice (two apart), 2022
    Acrylic on canvas
    152.4 x 152.4 cm | 60 x 60 in
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  • long vertical painting of a man standing in a backyard holding a snake. at the bottom of the image is a large, salmon-colored head. a few people are seated on the ground below the standing man, characterized mostly by green and salmon hues.
    Anthony Cudahy
    loop (twilight), 2022
    Oil on linen
    304.8 x 76.2 cm | 120 x 30 in
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  • abstract painting of a man on a rock-like base holding a turquoise butterfly that has been roughly split in half
    Anthony Cudahy
    Broken Butterflies, 2022
    Acrylic and oil on canvas
    152.4 x 152.4 cm | 60 x 60 in
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  • Anthony Cudahy Lily and mirror with Apocalypse Tapestry, 2022 Oil on linen 182.9 x 182.9 cm | 72 x 72 in
    Anthony Cudahy
    Lily and mirror with Apocalypse Tapestry, 2022
    Oil on linen
    182.9 x 182.9 cm | 72 x 72 in
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  • painted image of a man in a mirror leaning against a window, next to a knife, flowers, fruit, and a rock
    Anthony Cudahy
    Self-portrait in mirror with blade, flowers, stone, and Pompeian fruit, 2022
    Oil on linen
    61 x 45.7 cm | 24 x 18 in
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  • abstract painted image with brownish yellow hues of a woman laying down on top of what appears to look likean outstretched arm
    Anthony Cudahy
    Mother asleep, 2022
    Oil on linen
    45.7 x 61 cm | 18 x 24 in
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  • Anthony Cudahy Moth half, 2022 Color pencil on paper, framed 33.5 x 26.6 x 2.9 cm | 13 1/4 x 10 1/2 x 1 1/8 in
    Anthony Cudahy
    Moth half, 2022
    Color pencil on paper, framed
    33.5 x 26.6 x 2.9 cm | 13 1/4 x 10 1/2 x 1 1/8 in
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  • painted image of a man in a flower field at night. his skin is hued green, as are some of the flowers. the flowers directly in front of the man are pink.
    Anthony Cudahy
    Nightbloom, 2022
    Oil on linen
    61 x 45.7 cm | 24 x 18 in
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  • Anthony Cudahy Dissolved figure, 2022 Color pencil on paper, framed 33.5 x 26.6 x 2.9 cm | 13 1/4 x 10 1/2 x 1 1/8 in
    Anthony Cudahy
    Dissolved figure, 2022
    Color pencil on paper, framed
    33.5 x 26.6 x 2.9 cm | 13 1/4 x 10 1/2 x 1 1/8 in
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  • Anthony Cudahy Entryway, 2022 Color pencil on paper, framed 33.5 x 26.6 x 2.9 cm | 13 1/4 x 10 1/2 x 1 1/8 in
    Anthony Cudahy
    Entryway, 2022
    Color pencil on paper, framed
    33.5 x 26.6 x 2.9 cm | 13 1/4 x 10 1/2 x 1 1/8 in
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  • Anthony Cudahy Reader ii, 2022 Color pencil on paper, framed 33.5 x 26.6 x 2.9 cm | 13 1/4 x 10 1/2 x 1 1/8 in
    Anthony Cudahy
    Reader ii, 2022
    Color pencil on paper, framed
    33.5 x 26.6 x 2.9 cm | 13 1/4 x 10 1/2 x 1 1/8 in
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  • Anthony Cudahy Stray, 2022 Color pencil on paper, framed 33.5 x 26.6 x 2.9 cm | 13 1/4 x 10 1/2 x 1 1/8 in
    Anthony Cudahy
    Stray, 2022
    Color pencil on paper, framed
    33.5 x 26.6 x 2.9 cm | 13 1/4 x 10 1/2 x 1 1/8 in
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  • Anthony Cudahy Seneca sleeping, 2022 Color pencil on paper, framed 33.5 x 26.6 x 2.9 cm | 13 1/4 x 10 1/2 x 1 1/8 in
    Anthony Cudahy
    Seneca sleeping, 2022
    Color pencil on paper, framed
    33.5 x 26.6 x 2.9 cm | 13 1/4 x 10 1/2 x 1 1/8 in
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  • Anthony Cudahy Lily doubled, 2022 Color pencil on paper, framed 33.5 x 26.6 x 2.9 cm | 13 1/4 x 10 1/2 x 1 1/8 in
    Anthony Cudahy
    Lily doubled, 2022
    Color pencil on paper, framed
    33.5 x 26.6 x 2.9 cm | 13 1/4 x 10 1/2 x 1 1/8 in
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Publications
  • a pearl caught between my teeth

    a pearl caught between my teeth

    Anthony Cudahy Published by GRIMM on the occasion of "a pearl caught between my teeth", a solo exhibition with new works by Anthony Cudahy at GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL)., 2022 Hard cover with linen 104 pages
    Publisher: GRIMM Amsterdam (NL)
    ISBN: ISBN 978-90-831888-7-4
    Dimensions: 22 x 15 cm | 8 5/8 x 5 7/8 in
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Press release
loop (twilight), 2022
loop (twilight), 2022
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GRIMM is pleased to present a pearl caught between my teeth, an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by Anthony Cudahy, on view at its Amsterdam gallery from October 29 to December 22, 2022. This will be Cudahy’s first solo exhibition with GRIMM since the gallery announced representation of the artist earlier this year.

A book with a new essay by Ricardo Montez will be published on the occasion of the exhibition.

Within his latest body of work, on view in a pearl caught between my teeth, Cudahy reflects on the enmeshed categories of humanity and nature through their borderless relationship with each other. A new series of paintings stems from a tradition of seventeenth century Flemish landscape painting, where trees, flowers, shrubs, and rolling hills form anthropomorphic optical illusions of faces inscribed in the Earth. Cudahy translates this subject matter into the contemporary, mapping his figures into an excess of natural elements through varied painting techniques. Snakes become legs, flowers become abdomens - these works navigate the becoming of landscape for the subjects intimately depicted. The architecture of their surroundings performs a reflection, literally and figuratively, of the many ways we personify, engage with, indulge in, and stand at odds with our environments. 

The exhibition takes its title from a line in a poem by Paul Legault, titled Ok. In these works, Cudahy questions whether nature is ambivalent or even antagonistic to humanity, while insisting on its personified poetics. Boundaries between subjects dissolve as they move into the landscape themselves, caught between realms of animation as seen in works such as loop (twilight), 2022 and Eveningdawn (Reverse Pareidoliac Figure), 2022. In the latter, Legault himself is depicted with his husband, their bent and reclining bodies entangled with the excess of a sun’s light and shadow.

A series of drawings which accompany the new body of work act as iconographic iterations of the narrative elements which anchor the paintings. Each explores a subject that plays out an entanglement later in the collected narrative of the exhibition allowing moments of focus to surface briefly between the splendor and overbearance of the natural world.

 

About the Artist

Anthony Cudahy (b. 1989 Ft. Meyers, FL, US) completed an MFA at Hunter College, New York, NY (US) in 2020. He has had solo exhibitions with Hales Gallery, New York, NY (US) in 2021; Semiose Gallery, Paris (FR) in 2021 and 1969 Gallery, New York, NY (US) in 2018. He has been shown in various international group exhibitions and was included in GRIMM’s Equal Affections exhibition in Amsterdam (NL) in 2021. 

His work can be found in collections of The Hort Family Collection, New York, NY (US), Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL (US), Kunstmuseum, The Hague (NL), Les Arts au Mur Arthothèque de Pessac, Pessac (FR), and Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art, Rizhao (CN).

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  • a pearl caught between my teeth Publications

    a pearl caught between my teeth

    Anthony Cudahy Dec 14, 2022
    Hard cover with linen 216 x 145 mm | 85 1/8 x 57 1/8 in 104 pages, full color Published by GRIMM Essay by Ricardo Montez Printed by robstolk® Amsterdam
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