Anthony Cudahy

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Anthony Cudahy (born Florida, 1989) is an American painter. [1] Cudahy's approach is both figurative and abstract and takes inspiration from a breadth of source material ranging from personal photographs, movie stills, queer archival images and ephemera, and art history. [2] Cudahy lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

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Early life and education

Cudahy was born in Florida in 1989.

Cudahy graduated from the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York in 2011 and will receive his MFA from Hunter College, New York, NY in 2020 (anticipated). [3]

Work

Cudahy's paintings are often a hybrid of visual histories blending various figures from art history and queer photography into contemporary scenes such as portraiture, domestic spaces, or social sites. Cudahy explains this in an interview, "The transformation and degradation an image is subjected to through reproduction creates a language itself with codes and signifiers. This can be the pixelation of an image repeating itself online or a cast shadow of a photographic flash placed in a painting. When I appropriate an image and translate it into painting, it is both an iteration and an interpretation. The painting is another chain in this lineage. Another layer in an image's history. The translation is my brain working through the image; the painting is a record of thoughts." [4]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Selected two-person and group exhibitions

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References

  1. "Q&A: Anthony Cudahy". Strange Fire. Retrieved 2018-12-29.
  2. Alvarez, Justin (2014-01-07). "Anthony Cudahy". The Paris Review. Retrieved 2018-12-29.
  3. "Q&A: Anthony Cudahy". Strange Fire. Retrieved 2018-12-29.
  4. "Artist Anthony Cudahy Talks Paint & Pixels". Cakeboy Magazine. Retrieved 2018-12-29.