Anthony Cudahy
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Anthony Cudahy, The painter (Jenna Gribbon pointing to Friedrich) , 2022
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Anthony Cudahy, Night I+S (phosphorescent beyond), 2022
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Anthony Cudahy, A flaying, 2022
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Anthony Cudahy, Sleeper and comet, 2022
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Anthony Cudahy, By the mirror, 2021
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Anthony Cudahy, Two girls waiting, 2021
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Anthony Cudahy, Delacroix horse (terror), 2021
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Anthony Cudahy, Imprint moon, 2021
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Anthony Cudahy, Braid, 2021
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Anthony Cudahy, Blake Moon, 2021
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Anthony Cudahy, Self-portrait after Hockney '83, 2021
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Anthony Cudahy, Twinned, 2021
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Anthony Cudahy, Conversation i, 2021
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Anthony Cudahy, Glimmering on the land, 2021
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Anthony Cudahy, Cutting terror, 2021
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Anthony Cudahy, devirosflexing i, 2020
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Anthony Cudahy, Villa of the mysteries (pink), 2019
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Anthony Cudahy, Pompeii tile IV, 2019
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Anthony Cudahy, Green stare, 2019
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Anthony Cudahy, Flame, 2019
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Anthony Cudahy, Flame reflection, 2019
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Anthony Cudahy, Snake bundle, 2019
Anthony Cudahy combines a wide variety of references in his painting: masterpieces of art history, archives of queer culture, gay iconography as well as personal and family recollections. Inspired by photographs that he decomposes from one painting to another producing a serial effect, Cudahy incorporates these images in a chain of transformations, infusing each new iteration with different affects and his own musings. His repertoire, with its flowers, expressions of love and portraits of youthful men, explores romantic, tender and intimate registers.
Subdued, as if suspended, Cudahy’s painting is derived from a sense of the dramatic. At the center of his more complicated compositions, captured in ambiguous situations or broken narratives, the human figure emerges as a focal point. The exploration of individuality is rendered by the delicate manner in which faces and expressions are portrayed, compared with the bodies and settings, which are composed of broad, energetic brush strokes and abstract flat tints. Chromatic aberrations and vivid contrasts of acidic colors create an imbalance and unite contradictions that would otherwise appear irreconcilable.
Anthony Cudahy graduated from the Hunter College in 2020. His first solo exhibition in a European public institution was held at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dole in 2023. In 2024, the Ogunquit Museum of American Art presents his first institutional exhibition in the United States. He has participated in several one-person exhibitions across the USA most notably at 1969 Gallery and Deli Gallery in New York as well as at Farewell Books in Austin, TX. His works have been included in group exhibitions in New York at Perrotin, Hales Gallery, and at Pace Gallery (Hong Kong), amongst others.