Stars Splinter, Pointed and Wild
By Angela Fraleigh
Located in New York, NY
Unsigned
Category
2010s Contemporary Angela Fraleigh Art
Materials
Linen, Oil
Angela Fraleigh Art
American, b. 1976
Many of Angela Fraleigh’s haunting and carefully staged tableaux feature women drawn from the annals of Baroque and Rococo “boudoir paintings” — titillating scenes meant to fan the ardor of the viewer. But she puts a contemporary twist on this iconography by giving her characters more agency than was typical of earlier eras.
In Fraleigh’s paintings, which can extend to eight feet, group scenes are typically set against a backdrop of lush painterly effects, ranging from pure abstraction to suggestions of flora and fauna. “I want my paintings to be magical and mesmerizing — seductive, while also inspiring the viewer to ask questions about who they are, where they are, what power they have available and how they might use that power,” the artist says.
Adds Ted Holland, a director at Hirschl & Adler Galleries, in New York, which represents Fraleigh’s work: “She examines the roles and depictions of women in art history — as subject, object, artist and muse — and repositions those often-marginalized figures at the center of her own paintings. The mix of figuration and abstraction allows the female figures to exist without the signifiers of time and location, ultimately giving the figures a new power and context.”
But Fraleigh’s practice also has a quieter, more intimate side. She is an exquisite draftsman who has focused on, among other subjects, the animal kingdom and the intricacies of women’s hair, and some of her smaller paintings have a quiet mystery reminiscent of Gerhard Richter’s tender portraits.
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Artist: Angela Fraleigh
Our story was a ghostly one
By Angela Fraleigh
Located in New York, NY
Signed on verso
Category
2010s Contemporary Angela Fraleigh Art
Materials
Linen, Oil
A Word For What Binds
By Angela Fraleigh
Located in New York, NY
Unsigned
Category
2010s Contemporary Angela Fraleigh Art
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Oil
Through the half-drowned stars
By Angela Fraleigh
Located in Houston, TX
Angela Fraleigh Through the half-drowned stars, 2015 oil, ink, and synthetic resin on canvas 66 x 90 x 2 in (167.6 x 228.6 x 5.1 cm) Angela Fraleigh (born 1976, Beaufort, SC) earned...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Angela Fraleigh Art
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Oil, Synthetic Resin
In an Absent Dream
By Angela Fraleigh
Located in New York, NY
Unsigned
Category
2010s Contemporary Angela Fraleigh Art
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Oil
Rooted in Constellations
By Angela Fraleigh
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated (on verso): Angela Fraleigh 2021
Category
2010s Contemporary Angela Fraleigh Art
Materials
Linen, Oil
The Circle is Cast, We Are Between the Worlds
By Angela Fraleigh
Located in New York, NY
In Angela Fraleigh’s dynamic paintings, female subjects culled from art history become active protagonists in newly imagined spaces. In their original contexts, these figures were largely painted as docile objects for the male gaze...
Category
2010s Angela Fraleigh Art
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A Pang of Vivid Light
By Angela Fraleigh
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated (on verso): "Angela Fraleigh 2021"
Category
2010s Contemporary Angela Fraleigh Art
Materials
Linen, Oil
Splinters of a Secret Sky - Splinters
By Angela Fraleigh
Located in New York, NY
Signed (on verso): AF/2021
Category
2010s Contemporary Angela Fraleigh Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic Polymer, Oil, Acrylic
Wait For Me There
By Angela Fraleigh
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated (on verso): Angela Fraleigh 2021
Category
2010s Contemporary Angela Fraleigh Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Panel
From Sunset to Sunrise
By Angela Fraleigh
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated (on verso): Angela Fraleigh 2021
Category
2010s Contemporary Angela Fraleigh Art
Materials
Linen, Oil
Angela FraleighTurn Your Eyes to the Heavens and Say Three Times: I do not have to be good, 2022
$18,000
Turn Your Eyes to the Heavens and Say Three Times: I do not have to be good
By Angela Fraleigh
Located in New York, NY
Is it discomfort, or excitement, that you feel when you watch these women languidly roust, or subtly drift asleep? Do you happily play the voyeur, seduced by their beauty and the opu...
Category
2010s Angela Fraleigh Art
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Shaking to Sound the Silent Skies
By Angela Fraleigh
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated (on verso): Angela Fraleigh 2021
Category
2010s Contemporary Angela Fraleigh Art
Materials
Linen, Oil
Tumbling into Light
By Angela Fraleigh
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated (on verso): Angela Fraleigh 2021
Category
2010s Contemporary Angela Fraleigh Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Panel
The Stars Rise, the Moon Bends Her Arc
By Angela Fraleigh
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated (on verso): Angela Fraleigh 2021
Category
2010s Contemporary Angela Fraleigh Art
Materials
Linen, Oil
Silent Sparks
By Angela Fraleigh
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated (on verso): Angela Fraleigh 2021
Category
2010s Contemporary Angela Fraleigh Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Panel
A late frost drifted back
By Angela Fraleigh
Located in New York, NY
Signed on back
Category
2010s Contemporary Angela Fraleigh Art
Materials
Linen, Oil
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