Anthony Cudahy

The first comprehensive monograph on this leading American contemporary figurative painter Spinneret draws inspiration from the eponymous silk-producing organ that spiders use to weave their webs. Anthony Cudahys 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. Plate sections feature brief written reflections on Cudahys themes, style, and motifs from fellow artists and writers Ian Lewandowski, Paul Legault, Anna Glantz, Philemona Williamson, Lily Wong, Justin Liam OBrien, Billy Sullivan, John Belknap, and Elizabeth Glaessner. Spinneret spans the last half-decade of Cudahys career to date, including brand new work, and unpacks his richly layered artistic practice. Organized by five artistic themes slippages, allegories, fragments, figures, spaces it captures the ongoing push and pull, conceptually and materially, across the artists practice.