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The FLAG Art Foundation is pleased to present Somaya Critchlow: Paintings and Drawings, the British artist鈥檚 first institutional solo exhibition in the United States, on view April 1鈥揓une 3, 2023, on the 9th floor. Featuring over thirty works created between 2018-22, the exhibition offers an expansive overview of Critchlow鈥檚 painting and drawing practices, through which viewers can see the development of her figures in earlier, intimately scaled artworks and more recent, medium-sized canvases. While the women she depicts are fictional, they draw inspiration from pop culture clich茅s, her own photographs, and studies from life. Critchlow鈥檚 subjects are both intriguing and unsettling; they seduce viewers into a world that at times references art historical and literary precedents, from a fishbowl borrowed from Balthus鈥檚 Le Poisson rouge, 1948, to French dramatist Jean Genet鈥檚 1947 play, The Maids. While Critchlow鈥檚 handling of paint merges representation and abstraction, her imagery endlessly questions the complexities associated with image-making, the model, and perception.