In the art of Abigail Dudley, the act of creation is a celebration of serenity. Focusing primarily on interior-scapes and still lives, she combines a sense of familiarity with a search for harmonious achievement that celebrates rather than questions the nature of her subjects. What she does question, instead, is the relationship between reality and perception and, by extent, the expectations of how reality should behave in a painting.
Her mode of expression appears as the sum of many parts — a unifying experience of impulses, styles and inspirations that sublimates the quotidian into poetic visions of impermanence. Working on multiple paintings at a time, she defines her practice as spontaneous. In her studio, at home or in its surrounding nature, she meditates on the chromatic effects of light on the environment and the manyfold interpretations that radiate from their emotional reverb.
Abigail Dudley (b. 1996) received her BFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 2021. While in the undergraduate program at PAFA, Dudley received the Raymond D. & Estelle Rubens Travel Scholarship for European Travel. Dudley is a two-time recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshield Grant, once in 2020 and again in 2022, and was the artist in residence at the Lois and Charles X. Carlson Landscape Residency in 2021.
