today I offer you a very self-indulgent one-shot. tomorrow? who knows

I have ridden in your cart, driver, waved my nude arms at villages going by, learning the last bright routes, survivor where your flames still bite my thigh and my ribs crack where your wheels wind. A woman like that is not ashamed to die. I have been her kind.

‘The Séance’ In 1810, the Romantic writers, Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, Mary Shelley, and Doctor Polidori vacationed in Switzerland. They stayed up late, conducted seances and wrote books—Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and The Vampyre by Doctor Polidori. This painting is about their late night adventures in Switzerland. . 25 x 24 ¾  x 2”, acrylic and colored pencil on paper . . ‘Lord Byron’s Menagerie’ Lord Byron was a poet with a lot of pets: eight large dogs, five cats, two monkeys, a fox, a falcon, an eagle and a crow. Two hundred years ago Lord B, and his friends—Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Doc Polidori (Byron’s personal doctor) and Claire Clairemont (Mary’s stepsister) rented a mansion in Switzerland. . 52x40x2”, acrylic and colored pencil on paper . ~excerpts from Anna Fidler’s notes . ‘HER KIND’ @JohanssonProjects thru March 16 . #annafidler #cathylu #johanssonprojects #herkind (at Johansson Projects) https://www.instagram.com/p/BvE0PgABpKs/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=o85rdjf8etr7

“...It is not only energy that Fidler reveals in her paintings. She has also made visible historical figures, who have been forgotten or overlooked, all of them women. For decades, Fidler has studied women who have changed the ways we think and move. Some of their names are known – the dancer Isadora Duncan, the healer and artist Emma Kunz, the abstract painter Hilma af Klint, the Spiritualist watercolorist Georgiana Houghton – and others names have been lost: performers, costumed bodies on stage, spectacle makers, visionaries, mediums, women living beyond the constraints of their times and having fun while doing it...” - “Anna Fidler’s Energy Portraits: We, Too, Are Vibrant Matter” by Sarah Sentilles . . ‘HER KIND’ @JohanssonProjects thru March 16 . #annafidler #cathylu #internationalwomensday #johanssonprojects #herkind (at Johansson Projects) https://www.instagram.com/p/BuwpAcphgwe/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=18svad79j9937

“...Fidler is a builder of bodies. Her figures are accretive, topographical, sculptural. She creates portraits that are not about the way a person looks. She has abandoned traditional ways of seeing..” - “Anna Fidler’s Energy Portraits: We, Too, Are Vibrant Matter” by Sarah Sentilles ‘HER KIND’ Artist reception Fri, Feb 1, 5-8pm paintings by Anna Fidler, ceramics by Cathy Lu at Johansson Projects #annafidler #cathylu #johanssonprojects #herkind (at Johansson Projects) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtSYHT7hfXn/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=18oks4z89wuvi

‘Her Kind’ opens today / Anna Fidler paintings and ceramics by Cathy Lu at Johansson Projects #annafidler #cathylu #johanssonprojects #herkind (at Johansson Projects) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bs1X2sRhwd4/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=11t9ftvbglqfq

“...Fidler offers her viewers this kind of belonging. She holds out her hands – bearing paintbrushes and blades and paper and paint – to the revolutionaries who came before her and to those who will follow. In “We Should Meet in Air,” three figures dance under a red moon, their arms raised, the black and white rays of the background shimmering. They could be anywhere, anyone, in any place. They could be you, right now...” - “Anna Fidler’s Energy Portraits: We, Too, Are Vibrant Matter” by Sarah Sentilles . Anna will be presenting new works with ceramics by Cathy Lu this month at Johansson Projects . Anna Fidler We Should Meet in Air Acrylic and gouache on paper 22" x 20" x 2” . #annafidler #johanssonprojects #herkind (at Johansson Projects) https://www.instagram.com/p/Br9Pyw9hqCI/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=fidjfe45nxg2

Anne Sexton-Her kind