Anthony Cudahy: Spinneret: Organized by the Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Maine and curated by Devon Zimmerman, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art

October 5, 2024 - January 26, 2025
Works
Overview
Anthony Cudahy, Tempest (rooftop), 2021, Oil on linen, 72 x 72 in., Green Family Art Foundation. © Anthony Cudahy. Courtesy the artist and Hales, London and New York. Photo by Phoebe d'Heurle.
Anthony Cudahy, Tempest (rooftop), 2021, Oil on linen, 72 x 72 in., Green Family Art Foundation. © Anthony Cudahy. Courtesy the artist and Hales, London and New York. Photo by Phoebe d'Heurle.
Through his art, Cudahy explores the hazy slippages of subjectivity in the digital age. The artist anchors his compositions to passages of gentle tenderness, absent-minded repose, or banal isolation; prosaic instances that often carry the greatest poetic weight.
Anthony Cudahy: Spinneret draws inspiration from—and is named for—the silk-producing organ that spiders use to weave, or spin, their webs. 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. 
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