Girlfriends

The gallery is excited to inaugurate its new Tribeca location with Andrea Fourchy’s second solo exhibition, Girlfriends. Over the course of a series of canvases cascaded throughout the gallery, a constellation of easily identifiable figures repeats and recurs in series. Portraits of Charlotte Rampling, Isabelle Hupert, Divine, Charlotte Gainsbourg, and Anjelica Huston array throughout space with the cadence of a film strip or a music video. In conversation with one another and with a host of familiar art-historical motifs, the figures appear with the naive airs of teenage band posters, and experiment with the shifting register of drag. The use of these figures as a leitmotif questions the way the painter presents and re-presents herself through painting. Both drawing from and ironizing the bravado presentations of Pop, while historically liberated from the confines of that specific style, the works present an a-historical, playful, and defiant identity. Andrea Fourchy (B. 1990) lives and works in New York. She graduated from UC Davis in 2012. This is her second solo exhibition at Lomex. She has participated in group exhibitions at Doyers Street, New York; Greene Naftali, New York; Maria Bernheim, Zurich; Svetlana, New York, Gaudel de Stampa, Paris, among others, and had a two person exhibition with Sergej Jensen at Avlskarl, Copenhagen (2016).