Artspace Presents a New Limited Edition by Anthony Cudahy
Artspace is proud to announce Sleeper with Signs, a new variable edition of risograph prints with hand-colored drawings by Anthony Cudahy. His new series of 30 unique prints comes with a copy of the artist’s first comprehensive monograph by Monacelli, Spinneret, published as a companion to the artist’s current solo exhibition at the Ogunquit Museum of American Art in Maine.
About the Edition
Anthony Cudahy is a figurative painter whose tender scenes reveal the nuanced complexities of life. In masterful compositions, he creates a world for unspoken stories, intimate moments and romantic gestures with diverse references from news footage and family photographs to Renaissance paintings. Personal and poetic, Cudahy's figures coalesce with the atmosphere of their environments in fluid brushstrokes.
The subject of a new profile in The New York Times, Cudahy is considered one of the vanguard artists working in his field today. His work has also been featured and reviewed in publications including Artforum, Frieze, BOMB, and Brooklyn Rail. His work is in the collections of the ICA Miami; Baltimore Museum of Art, MD; Kunstmuseum, The Hague, the Netherlands; and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, among others.
Proceeds from the sale of Sleeper with Signs will benefit the Ogunquit Museum and Doctors Without Borders.
“Whilst I collect a lot of images, there’s no hierarchy between them…I keep some images for years, not knowing how I will use them or why they hold such potent and persistent significance. Eventually, they align with an idea or a sensation that I want to construct in a painting.” —Anthony Cudahy
Anthony Cudahy on Art, Life & Everything In Between
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About the Book
The first comprehensive monograph on the contemporary figurative painter, published as a companion to the artist’s first solo exhibition in the United States. Spinneret draws inspiration from the eponymous silk-producing organ that spiders use to weave their webs. Anthony Cudahy’s figurative paintings tenderly piece together enigmatic scenes of specific objects and equivocal environments from interwoven references drawn from queer archives, art history, film, poetry, friends, and autobiography.
Ogunquit Museum of American Art
Celebrating its artistic heritage and origins in Ogunquit's art colonies, the Ogunquit Museum of American Art engages and educates a diverse audience by acquiring, preserving, exhibiting, and interpreting American art. The Ogunquit Museum presents Anthony Cudahy: Spinneret, the artist's first solo exhibition in the United States. Spanning the last half-decade of his career, this survey explores Cudahy's richly layered practice. The exhibition is on view April 12 through July 21, 2024.
