Painters on Panel
Saturday 24 January
1-2:30 PM
Artists Anthony Cudahy, Justin de Verteuil, Magalie Guérin, and Alexandre Pépin come together to discuss their processes, references, and influences in this panel discussion of painters talking about painting.
Anthony Cudahy is a figurative painter whose tender scenes reveal the nuanced complexities of life. In masterful compositions he creates a world for unspoken stories, intimate moments and romantic gestures. Personal and poetic, Cudahy’s figures coalesce with the atmosphere of their environments in fluid brushstrokes.
Justin de Verteuil is a Düsseldorf based artist whose oil paintings explore the dynamic between figure and space and their relationship to the viewer. Through a play of ambiguity and details his paintings act as vehicles for projection. Born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, de Verteuil studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.
Magalie Guérin’s paintings often begin with what remains: she carries forward yesterday’s pigment, a trace of past works and decisions, as a provocation to begin a new composition. From this material residue she builds paintings that are both generative and iterative—they are works that remember and reference themselves even as they continually evolve, build, and refuse to settle
Alexandre Pépin is a French-Canadian visual artist born in Tio’tia:ke (Montréal) (1992) and currently living in Austin, Texas. He holds an MFA in Studio Arts from the University of Texas at Austin (2022) and a BFA in Studio Arts from Concordia University in Montréal (2016). Pépin draws from the legacy of Byzantine and Early Renaissance Frescoes, Post-Impressionism, Tonalism, The Viennese Secession, and Pattern and Decoration to portray moments of Queer intimacy and spiritual contemplation.