Anthony Cudahy and LJ Roberts | Friends and Lovers | The FLAG Art Foundation

Hales is excited to announce the inclusion of Anthony Cudahy and LJ Roberts in Friends and Lovers at the FLAG Art Foundation, NY, USA through 20 January 2024. 

 

Friends & Lovers is an expansive group exhibition that centers on relationships between artists and their subjects and explores the infinite ways, both past and present, we are influenced by our inner circles. Just as a studio visit opens a window into an artist's creative process, who they choose to immortalize through paint, bronze, photography, etc. similarly provides insight into who serves as their inspiration, be that a lover, a partner, a family member, friend, celebrity crush, or a fleeting encounter.

 

Friends & Lovers looks at portraiture through the lens of Alice Neel's assertion that she painted "pictures of people." Eschewing portraiture's bourgeois associations, Neel sought to paint resonant, unheroic images of people in her life that were true to her experience of them, as seen in a bracing 1952 painting of her doe-eyed, young son Hartley. Likewise, works by fifty contemporary artists encompass a range of tender, unexpected, complex, and personal moments with and connections to their sitters, creating urgent and ultimately timeless pictures of their people.