Angela Fraleigh
Angela Fraleigh has spent her career examining and challenging hierarchical patterns in Western art history. Her site-specific exhibitions at major institutions, including the Weatherspoon Art Museum, Delaware Art Museum, the Everson Museum of Art, and Edward Hopper House Museum, radically reframe historical collections through a contemporary lens. A Yale MFA graduate, Fraleigh’s work can be found in collections such as the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Kemper Museum, and has been exhibited at prestigious venues such as P·P·O·W, Hirschl & Adler Modern, Inman Gallery, and Marc Straus while receiving fellowships from the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, the Core Program, and Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts.
I began examining the female figures we’ve inherited from the old masters—the lounging odalisques, the giggling nymphs, the whispering choruses. What if these characters embodied a flickering of female power, rather than just a voyeuristic feast?
