Anna Kincaide

In Anna Kincaide’s fantastical paintings, the faces of feminine subjects are obscured by lush bouquets of multicolored blooms rendered in thick impasto. Anna explains, “I have always studied women, and the floral component has come to symbolize the female mind, with all the chaos and beauty it beholds.” The paintings serve as a passageway to a world that is both whimsical and familiar. Her collection of stylized, abstract portraits creates a visual experience that explores the complexity of the female mind and experience. Actualizing the interaction between our physical body, our identities, and the intimate, internal space of our minds through her work.

Kincaide draws heavily on the aesthetics of fashion and advertising in her paintings; the women in her works appear to be taken from the covers of Vogue or Vanity Fair. She references famous women throughout history, with her floral crowns resembling headwear worn by icons from Queen Nefertiti to Marie Antoinette, Anne Boleyn, and Catherine of Aragon to Beyoncé. By covering the faces of her central subjects, Kincaide suggests themes of fashion, beauty, power, iconography, and history, drawing lines between gendered objectification in media and throughout art history.

Kincaide, who lives and works in Tallahassee, Florida, has exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, Miami, New Orleans, and Atlanta, among others and we are thrilled to be showing her work.