amanda wall

APOCALYPSTICK

Amanda Wall employs painting as an explosive, instinctive language, driven by saturated color, raw materiality, and near-abstract gesture. Her canvases chart an intensely psychosexual landscape shaped by solitude, self-absorption, vulnerability, and perversion, where intimacy is inseparable from exposure. Recurrent figures — often bearing the artist’s own features — operate less as portraits than as projections: unstable avatars of what she describes as “a fragmented self in a fractured
reality.”

At the center of this new series, Beddy Bye, is the bed. Associated with refuge and intimacy, it becomes a charged psychological arena where individuality is both constructed and undone. Not a place of protection but of confrontation: a site where narcissism, desire, and isolation collide, unravel, and ultimately combust.

— Olivier Zahm

 

ALL ARTWORK COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND ALMINE RECH GALLERY