Genieve Figgis' paintings share a similar dramatic bent as some Irish-English literature subjects from Edgar Allan Poe to Oscar Wilde, as well as acknowledged Old Masters such as Goya. Her scenes depicting bourgeois homes, traditional portraits, or landscapes are often haunted by spectral figures and leering creatures with canes and top hats. A sense of the charmingly macabre emerges from Figgis' combination of an apparent pictorial banality with dreamlike qualities.
Genieve Figgis
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The Happy Accidents of the Swing (after Fragonard), 2018
Acrylic on canvas
120 x 100 x 4 cm
47 1/4 x 39 3/8 x 1 5/8 inches -
Hercules and omphale (after Boucher), 2018
Acrylic on canvas
70 x 60 x 4 cm
27 1/2 x 23 5/8 x 1 5/8 inches -
Jupiter and Calisto (Boucher), 2018
Acrylic on canvas
80 x 60 x 4 cm
31 1/2 x 23 5/8 x 1 5/8 inches -
The toilet of Venus (after Boucher), 2018
Acrylic on canvas
50 x 40 x 4 cm
19 5/8 x 15 3/4 x 1 5/8 inches -
Lucifer and me (after Bouguereau), 2018
Acrylic on canvas
80 x 60 x 4 cm
31 1/2 x 23 5/8 x 1 5/8 inches -
Erato the muse of love poetry (after Boucher), 2018
Acrylic on panel
50 x 40 cm
19 5/8 x 15 3/4 x 1 5/8 inches -
The confession of love (after Fragonard), 2018
Acrylic on canvas
120 x 100 x 4 cm
47 1/4 x 39 3/8 x 1 5/8 inches -
Pink landscape, 2018
Acrylic on canvas
200 x 100 x 4 cm
78 3/4 x 39 3/8 x 1 5/8 inches -
Wish you were here, 2018
Acrylic on canvas
100 x 100 x 4 cm
39 3/8 x 39 3/8 x 1 5/8 inches -
Nude, 2018
Acrylic on canvas
120 x 120 x 4 cm
47 1/4 x 47 1/4 x 1 5/8 inches -
Stage, 2018
Acrylic on canvas
120 x 120 x 4 cm
47 1/4 x 47 1/4 x 1 5/8 inches -
17th century Entourage, 2018
Acrylic on canvas
120 x 150 x 4 cm
47 1/4 x 59 x 1 5/8 inches -
Velvet curtains, 2018
Acrylic on canvas
80 x 100 x 4 cm
31 1/2 x 39 3/8 x 1 5/8 inches -
Knock knock, 2018
Acrylic on canvas
80 x 60 x 4 cm
31 1/2 x 23 5/8 x 1 5/8 inches -
Floating, 2018
Acrylic on canvas
60 x 80 x 4 cm
23 5/8 x 31 1/2 x 1 5/8 inches -
Portal, 2018
Acrylic on canvas
150 x 150 x 4 cm
59 x 59 x 1 5/8 inches
Exhibitions
Museum Exhibitions
News
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April 13 - 19, 2020
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Selected press
- Thibaut Wychowanok, ‘Genieve Figgis et Almine Rech’, Numero Art, June - September, 2020 — 455.7 kB
- 'Desire: from the 20th Century to the Digital Age', Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, September 2019 - March 2020 — 434.2 kB
- ‘Fortune, Prowess and Alchemy’, Irish Arts Review, Cian McLoughlin, March 2019 — 11.9 MB
- 'The Art of Fashion,' Harper's Bazar, February 2019, pgs. 122 - 125. — 625.3 kB
- Judicael Lavrador, ‘Ces Peintres qui racontent des histoires...’, Beaux-Arts Magazine, February 2019 — 330.7 kB
- 'Genieve Figgis', Artforum, 1st April 2018 — 670.5 kB
- 'Genieve Figgis 3/3 - Art is a Good Fealing First then Luck', 27th February 2018 — 119.8 kB
- 'Genieve Figgis 2/3 - Art is Searching', 23th February 2018 — 147.3 kB
- 'Genieve Figgis 1/3 - Art as as Second Life', 19th February 2018 — 116.8 kB
- Philippe Dagen, 'Sélection galerie : Genieve Figgis chez Almine Rech’, Le Monde, 2nd February 2018 — 851.1 kB
- Paige Silveria, ‘AN INTERVIEW WITH GENIEVE FIGGIS’, Purple Diary, 2nd January 2018 — 339.9 kB
- Kristin Farr, 'Genieve Figgis. Theater of the Obsessed', Juxtapoz, December 2017 — 2.2 MB
- Padraic E.Moore, 'What we do in the shadows', THE VISUAL ARTIST'S NEWS SHEET, September-October 2017' — 1.4 MB
- Kathleen Madden, ‘Genieve Figgis’, Artforum, 27th July 2014 — 31.8 kB
- Dodie Kazanjlan, 'Genieve Figgis- What is Beauty?', VOGUE, 12th July 2017 — 549.6 kB
- Peter Gill, 'Genieve Figgis : what we do in the shadows', INTERNATIONAL ART EXHIBITIONS, July, 2017 — 6.7 MB
- Judicaël Lavrador, ‘Cinq nouvelles tendances de la peinture’, Beaux Arts magazine, February 2017 — 457.6 kB
- Catarina Vaz, 'Genieve Figgis interview', ARM, June 2017 — 1.0 MB
- Liesbeth Langouche, 'Collectionneurs at Art Brussels', COLLECT ART ANTIQUES AUCTIONS, n°471, April 2017 — 942.1 kB
- Jessica D.Wessel, 'Genieve Figgis Interview', CRUSH Fanzine, 4th January 2017 — 387.2 kB
- ‘Genieve Figgis - Why I Paint’, Phaidon, 2016 — 504.3 kB
- 'Interview: Genieve Figgis', Parterre de Rois, April 2016 — 2.8 MB
- Dominique Mucols, 'Genieve Figgis', Flaunt Magazine, April 2016 — 1.0 MB
- Gemma Tipton, 'People to watch in 2018 : Arts', THE IRISH TIMES, Saturday, 9th January, 2016 — 276.2 kB
- Ben Eastham, ‘Up and Coming:From Ireland’s Wicklow Mountains, Genieve Figgis Paints Dark Narratives of Previous Worlds’, Artsy, 16th November 2015 — 2.0 MB
- '25 Must-See Shows This November', Artsy, 27th October 2015 — 192.2 kB
- Olivia Parkes, ‘The Irish Artist Attacking the Female Figure with Pain’, Broadly.vice.com, 23rd October 2015 — 1.0 MB
- Roberta Smith, ‘Genieve Figgis:’Good Morning,Midnight’, The New York Times, 23rd October 2014 — 393.0 kB
- ‘New York - Genieve Figgis:’Good Morning,Midnight’ at Half Gallery through October 25th, 2014’, Art Observed, 22nd October 2014 — 532.7 kB
- ‘Artist Brings Back Rococo Painting And Leaves It Out to Rot’, Huffington Post, 27th September 2014 — 1.5 MB