That floppy Monday feeling, as encapsulated by Los Angeles-based painter Amanda Wall and the drooping protagonist of her 2019 work Favorite Chair. Wall’s oeuvre combines “voyeurism, exhibitionism, and 21st century existentialism” in the words of her gallery Almine Rech, both enticing and intriguing in the process. Frequently comprising bold, lurid hues, Wall’s palette symbolises “vulnerability, desire and control”, while her subject matter is more elusive —”a tension between abstraction and distorted reality, a conflict between the self and the void”, the gallery explains.
