Congratulations to Angela Fraleigh on the opening of her recent solo museum exhibition, Splinters of a Secret Sky, opening Saturday, October 9! This exhibition is organized by Dr. Emily Stamey, Curator of Exhibitions, and will remain on view through December 11, 2021. Additionally, the artist will serve as the Falk Visiting Artist at UNC Greensboro. Fraleigh will give an artist's talk on Thursday, October 21, at 7pm. For more information on the exhibition and artist's talk, please use the link below.
We are thrilled to share this interview between Angela Fraleigh and Sarah Cascone of Artnet News! The two discuss Angela's process and daily routine in the studio, as well as her upcoming solo exhibition at the Weatherspoon Art Museum. Please use the link below to read the full interview.
Like a lot of artists, I probably most admire all the stuff I want to steal for my own work. I guess the “how’d they do that” quality of a thing, coupled with a depth and breadth of human experience and juicy poetic stuff to chew on. In painting, I like the topography of a surface, something that optically resonates.
Thank you to Brienne Walsh and Forbes for their coverage of Angela Fraleigh's debut solo show with H&A Modern!
At first glance, the paintings in “Fluttering still,” an exhibition of new works by Angela Fraleigh currently open at Hirsch & Adler Modern through March 12, look decidedly rooted in the past. Women, some of them nude, some of them clothed in flowing garments, lie in repose within the canvasses. The figures have flushed skin, and long, impossibly soft hair rendered in skilled, confident brushstrokes...Further examination reveal the paintings exist very much in the 21st century—and perhaps may even be prophetic.
Thank you to Ann Landi and Introspective Magazine for including Angela Fraleigh in their round-up! The gallery is excited for Angela's debut solo exhibition, opening in February 2021!
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.
...they are elegant and dignified, as are all of Fraleigh’s women, who congregate in secret pockets where societal limitations of female identity are eluded. One of the women holds out a thread, a simple act which reveals their power: these are the Fates, the women who determine the past and future for gods and mortals alike, a reminder of what is possible.
Congratulations to Angela Fraleigh on the opening of her solo museum exhibition, Sound the Deep Waters, at the Delaware Art Museum!
Angela Fraleigh has spent her career exploring narrative art’s hierarchical patterns. Keenly observing how images and roles from Western art history intersect with contemporary representation and attitudes, Fraleigh uncovers why certain tropes remain relevant, who they benefit, and how. Over the last decade she has worked with institutions to create several site-specific solo exhibitions that reveal alternative accounts in their permanent collections. In rearranging the images of the past, the artist changes how we see ourselves in the present.
Angela Fraleigh (b. 1976) earned her MFA from Yale University School of Art and her BFA from Boston University. Her solo exhibitions include Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY; Inman Gallery, Houston, TX; PPOW Gallery, New York, NY; Peters Projects, Santa Fe, NM; and James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA. She has exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO, and has been the recipient of several awards and residencies including the Yale University Alice Kimball English grant; The Sharpe-Walentas Program Brooklyn, NY; and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, NE. Fraleigh has created site-specific solo projects for the Weatherspoon Art Museum (Splinters of a Secret Sky, 2021), the Delaware Art Museum (Sound the Deep Waters, 2019), the Edward Hopper House Museum and Study Center (Shadows Searching for Light, 2018), the Everson Museum of Art (Between Tongue and Teeth, 2016) and the Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site (Lost in the Light, 2015). She currently lives and works in Allentown, PA, where she is a Full Professor and Department Chair at Moravian College.
