Mònica Subidé

A series of new portraits and still lives line the gallery walls, each work seeking to reveal the recognition of individuality within the simplest contours of Subidé’s figures or scenes. With this body of work, the artist focuses on the emotive possibilities of painting, creating contemplative and placid scenes that reveal complex emotional truths. From her muted color palettes to her unfinished lines and quasi-cubist approach to shading, Subidé paints in a style that recalls the work of Lucien Freud, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, and Pablo Picasso, whose portraits of his lover Marie-Thérèse provides inspiration for Subidé’s From Marie Thérèse (all works 2023).

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‘Without Words’ - I have spent days thinking about the question and postponing my answer looking for a feeling in me in relation to the green kujakumidori-iro, and the truth is that I am unable to answer: I cannot put words and concretely define the color, which for me is more of an abstract emotion than a defined one.

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The city’s younger galleries—including Anat Ebgi, François Ghebaly, Make Room, Nino Mier Gallery, and Night Gallery—have multiple locations, while blue-chip gallerists such as Blum & Poe, Jeffrey Deitch, Gagosian, Hauser & Wirth, David Kordansky Gallery, Matthew Marks Gallery, Regen Projects, Sprüth Magers and Vielmetter Los Angeles have either big buildings, multiple spaces, or both.

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Mònica Subidé’s paintings are portraits and still lives set against shallow, color-blocked backdrops.  The surfaces of each work are highly textural, either revealing the artist’s hand at work or incorporating collaged motifs beneath the paint. Subidé works with a formal language that refines scenes into their elemental parts, melding the figural with the geometric and the abstract in a quasi-cubist approach to figuration. 

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