Kathy Ager (1981) is a Canadian-born artist based in Amsterdam.
It’s what flows beneath the surface that interests her. In Ager’s current body of work, she braves the mind’s basement, ventures into the heart’s deep dark woods, plundering pieces of people and things she encounters. The images that emerge are physical records from these intimate depths. Both deeply personal and universal, they are cryptic messages directed towards the audience. She challenges the viewer to face the discomfort and to see the beauty and power in letting yourself feel. She describes subjects such as dead animals, which frequently appear in her paintings, as the intimate and tender offerings of our nature which are subjected to the subtle brutality of consumable, disposable modern life and love. Sometimes strikingly eery or underlyingly violent, her works are crafted in a way that is original and appealing to the eye, and in a way become her weapons against the pain of letting oneself be vulnerable.
Current and Previous Works by Kathy Ager
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“Girl You Knock Me Out”
(2019)
$4,000
Available
Oil on canvas
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“Peaches N’ Cream”
(2019)
$1,100
Sold
Oil on canvas
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“Don’t Let It Go To Your Head”
(2017)
$3,200
Sold
Oil on canvas
47.25"
× 31.5"
120 × 80 cm
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“The Cold Lover of Lust (Wins the Warm Drain of Spirit)”
(2018)
$1,500
Sold
Oil on canvas
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“Head of the Family”
(2018)
$3,000
Sold
Oil on canvas
31.4"
× 39.3"
80 × 100 cm
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“Lemon Bowl”
(2019)
$2,000
Sold
Oil on custom wood panel
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“Can’t Get High Enough”
(2018)
$2,700
Sold
Oil on canvas
19.75"
× 39.3"
50 × 100 cm
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“Smokin’ Me Out”
(2018)
$2,200
Sold
Oil on canvas
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“The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter”
(2019)
$4,000
Sold
Oil on canvas
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“The Emptiest Vessel Makes The Loudest Sound”
(2019)
$3,200
Sold
Oil on canvas
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“Look Both Ways Before You Cross My Mind”
(2020)
$5,200
Sold
Oil on canvas
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“Love (You Gave Me A Run For My Money)”
(2019)
$2,400
Sold
Oil on canvas
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“Down In Old Flames”
(2019)
$2,400
Sold
Oil on canvas
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“Fool’s Gold”
(2020)
$4,400
Sold
Oil on canvas
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“Bitter Lemon”
(2019)
$2,400
Sold
Oil on canvas
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“Het-Nieuwe-Diep”
(2020)
$3,200
Sold
Oil on canvas
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“Demon Daze”
(2019)
$900
Sold
Oil on canvas
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“The Birds and The Bees”
(2020)
$3,200
Sold
Oil on canvas
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“Blue Boy”
(2020)
$3,200
Sold
Oil on canvas
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“Lemonade”
(2020)
$1,100
Sold
Oil on canvas
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“Sour Puss”
(2020)
$1,100
Sold
Oil on canvas
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“Three Stripes”
(2020)
$1,100
Sold
Oil on canvas
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“All The Pretty Horses (I See the Same Hoes)”
(2019)
$900
Sold
Oil on canvas
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“I Wish I Knew How To Quit You”
(2020)
$900
Sold
Oil on canvas