In her striking portrayals of the tragicomic everyday, Grace Weaver examines the charged social and cultural conditions that underlie self-concept, intimacy, and individual experience. Depicting elastic-limbed figures that collide on street-corners and tumble down steps, Weaver’s new paintings turn an incisive yet empathetic eye onto the self-conscious performativity and precarious footing of her contemporaries.
“Falling and being on one’s hands and knees is such a self-aware and self-conscious pose. Sometimes accidental and sometimes performed—and sometimes both—one perceives one’s own appearance, sees oneself as one is being seen.”
—Grace Weaver