Agnes Scherer at PAGE (NYC)

Artist: Agnes Scherer

Exhibition title: Fancies

Venue: PAGE (NYC), New York, US

Date: December 3 – 18, 2022

Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and Page, New York

There’s a canopy bed in a room in Tribeca that Agnes concocted, outright paranormal in its nature. Paintings too! The bed is held together using magic spells to bypass the physics of conventional assembly, possessed rather than nailed together. Feral and angelic energies power heavenly decoration systems. This constellation of graphic motifs brings to mind a 24-hour diner in a secret room of a Venetian basilica. It’s not an antique from a castle—it was spat out during a redeye vacation to New York, where Agnes rarely visits. The 2-dimensionality of the work shifts the crafty, regal, and allegorical subject matter through a postmodern economic reprocessing. The thinness of its markered paper fuselage gives it a mastered perfection. Any thinner and it simply wouldn’t be.

Agnes Scherer, Fancies, 2022, exhibition view, PAGE (NYC)

Agnes Scherer, Trousseau Dérangé, 2022, Felt tip marker, liquid ink, gouache, and color pencil on paper, 82 x 75 x 50 inches

Agnes Scherer, Riding Glove, 2022, Felt tip marker and pencil on paper, 11.75 x 15.75 inches

Agnes Scherer, Piz Bernina, 2022, Felt tip marker on paper, 9.75 x 12.75 inches

Agnes Scherer, Petit Bouquet, 2022, Felt tip marker on paper, 19.75 x 25.5 inches

Agnes Scherer, Dark Bonheur, 2022, Felt tip marker on paper, 27.5 x 39.25 inches

Agnes Scherer, Honeymoon Dwam, 2022, Felt tip marker and color pencil on paper, 19.5 x 27.5 inches

Agnes Scherer, Paris–Salzburg, 2022, Felt tip marker and pencil on paper, 19.75 x 27.5 inches

Agnes Scherer, Potpourri Maze, 2022, Felt tip marker on paper, 19.75 x 25.5 inches