Anthony Cudahy 

Ian holding a pearl, 2025

“It’s an incredible privilege that something I’ve made can raise funds for organizations and causes I believe in, like the Ali Forney Center. In an increasingly antagonistic and dangerous period, AFC’s material support is incredibly meaningful and provides hope to LGBTQ+ youth.

This painting is a portrait of my husband, Ian, and it ties together several different scales: human scale; the bridge in the distance (a bigger, structural scale); the sea and the moon; the pearl; and the spiderwebs in the lower left (a much different scale and network than our own). We’re all enmeshed and should take care of each other.” —Anthony Cudahy

Anthony Cudahy (b. 1989, Florida) was the subject of solo museum shows at the Ogunquit Museum of American Art in Maine in 2024, which traveled to the Green Family Art Foundation in Dallas, the CAP Centre d’art de Saint-Fons in Saint-Fons, France, in 2024, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Dole, France, in 2023. His work is in numerous public collections including the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; AkzoNobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam; Baltimore Museum of Art; Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University; Dallas Museum of Art; Kunstmuseum The Hague; Musée d'art Moderne de Paris; New York Historical; Les Arts au Mur Artothèque de Pessac, France; Speed Art Museum, Kentucky; Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art, Rizhao, China; and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Cudahy received a BFA from Pratt Institute in 2011 and an MFA at Hunter College in 2020.