Hollis Taggart’s booth will feature the work of gallery artists Thomas Agrinier and Justine Otto, whose practices both reinvigorate the tradition of figurative painting. In contrast to much of figurative painting today that conveys figures at stasis, frozen in the space and time of the painting, Agrinier’s work depicts figures in mid-action and movement. His figures often feature distorted faces …
Hollis Taggart’s booth will feature the work of gallery artists Thomas Agrinier and Justine Otto, whose practices both reinvigorate the tradition of figurative painting. In contrast to much of figurative painting today that conveys figures at stasis, frozen in the space and time of the painting, Agrinier’s work depicts figures in mid-action and movement. His figures often feature distorted faces and bodies that seem to be pulverized and dissolving into the surrounding environment. Agrinier pursues a figuration that is imbued with a sense of heightened vitality that reflects the constant …
