"I'VE GOT SUNSHINE ON A CLOUDY DAY" - 16 Rue des Quatre Fils, Paris

RX&SLAG Paris is delighted to present artist Lucy Fradkin’s first solo exhibition in France.

Born in the United States and based in New York, Fradkin creates intimate scenes in her paintings and works on paper, in which the human figure takes centre stage. Drawing inspiration from sources ranging from Persian and Indian miniatures to folk art and the tradition of hand-painted shop signs, her work combines frontal figures, chromatic intensity and decorative structures to create compositions in which narrative and psychological presence unfold with restraint.

Her works often depict figures in intimate domestic spaces, where patterns, textiles and objects contribute to a dense visual architecture. Through these images, Fradkin explores family relationships, memory and personal narratives, whilst subtly bringing to the fore questions of identity, gender and social history.

The artist’s work has been exhibited in numerous institutions and exhibitions across the United States, including the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., as part of the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, as well as at the Weatherspoon Art Museum, the Holter Museum of Art, the Bellarmine Museum of Art, the Tacoma Art Museum, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, the Ackland Art Museum and the Art Museum of South Texas, amongst others.

Her work is also held in several public collections and has been recognised with institutional awards, including a Purchase Award from the Weatherspoon Art Museum. More recently, Fradkin was invited to take up a residency at the Tamarind Institute, where she developed a new body of lithographs presented at The Armory Show in New York.

In her recent exhibitions, Fradkin continues to explore family narratives and shared histories, blending portraiture, memory and visual storytelling in compositions where the personal engages with collective history.