Opening on April 12, 2024, the Ogunquit Museum of American Art in Maine will present Anthony Cudahy: Spinneret, the first solo exhibition in the United States of work by the artist Anthony Cudahy (b. 1989 Ft. Myers, FL, US). 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 will be on view until July 21, 2024, and it will be accompanied by a catalogue published by Monacelli Press.
