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A limited edition run of giclee artist prints available.
Available in sizes: A4 - A2
(Platonic Blow Series)
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A limited edition run of giclee artist prints available.
Available in size: A4-A2
(Platonic Blow Series)
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A limited edition run of giclee artist prints available.
Available in size: A4-A2
AILSA OGDEN STUDIO
Ailsa Ogden’s figures pull up the dashed pleasures of nights that probably looked better on camera. Drawing here is a smoke machine that emulsifies your vision: skeins of electric colour, smudged contouring, Balenciaga swagger and oversize, Cocteauian line. Ogden’s figures have
an indeterminacy about them, even as citations abound in the work to queer worship of the masculine body: the pages of Physique Pictorial, Tom of Finland’s exaggerated proportions, and candid references to places where nudity is encouraged. What does it mean to project recent desires and icons into these queer pantheons, to create messy love triangles with the men of Tom’s Saloon or W. H. Auden’s erotic poems? Ogden’s gender-diverse characters take us beyond
a definitive sense of the ‘I’ to embodiments that are more mutable. To get to this place Ogden will redraw a figure over and over, chasing an aslant on recognition that she needs to first get right in order to get wrong. Ogden’s name for this is ‘the agony
and the ecstasy.
Dr Gabe Beckhurst Feijoo - Art Historian and curator
Ailsa Ogden is an artist and designer
currently residing in Amsterdam, Holland.
ARTWORK ENQUIRIES:
If you are interested in purchasing an original piece print please get in touch for the full catalogue of works.
Framing is available on request for both prints and original works.
COMMISSIONS:
Please reach out via email to enquire
about commissions.
REPRESENTATION:
DÈ JA PRIS Agency (Paris - Amsterdam)
Agent: Jane Ferreira
Jane@deprisagency.com
Ailsa Ogden creates obervational portraits, using ambiquity and exaggeration to explore humanity, queerness and otherness. She embraces the performative and subversive nature of her subjects and their identifiers.
Within the works the medium serves as a conduit for the raw, visceral and intangible. Drawing on slang and colloquialisms,
she initiates a humourous dialogue between classical draftsmanship and subversive tenets.