STARKEY FOSSGREEN

 Starkey Fossgreen (b. 1994) is a painter based in Los Angeles, CA. Their work explores themes of ferality, affirmation language, sex, violence, and the mutable nature of matter. 

Memory takes on a mythical quality as the mundane is captured alongside the divine and hence organized in quilt-like compositions. A library of symbols appear and reappear, sometimes staccato in their repetition, as if to strike a hammer into the psyche. Ambiguous narratives cannot help but form in the viewer’s subconscious. Every urge must be realized. Rejecting both modernity and traditionalism, we are left only with a verdant vision of a simultaneous present-future, like a vast field of grasses, pungent with the fragrance of the evening. Paradox, ever-present, allows opposing forces to become conjoined, grafted together to produce a sweeter fruit. Birth, death, and desire cycle continuously with the velocity of a strobe.

“Sphere of One Million Angels”, Espaço Origem, Sintra, Portugal (2024)

“Mercury Begat Himself”, Betty Gallery, Los Angeles CA (2023)

“Girls with Cherry-Colored Centers”, UCLA Little Gallery, Los Angeles CA (2022)

“Hearty Fried Wild Greens”, Escolar, Santa Rosa CA (2022)

“Hot River”, Kitty Hawk Gallery, Sebastopol CA (2019)

“Salon Style”, PSST DTLA, Los Angeles CA (2025)

 “Final Girl”, Ruby Dakota, New York NY (2024)

 “Second World”, Known Studio, Los Angeles CA (2024)

“The Dog Show”, Melrose Botanical Garden, Los Angeles CA (2024)

“Undergraduate Juried Exhibition”, UCLA New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles CA (2024)

“Enlargement Show II” Mundus Press, Easthampton MA (2024)

“Daydreaming Pressed Against a Fence” Harkawik, Los Angeles CA (2023)

“Undergraduate Juried Exhibition”, UCLA New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles CA (2023)

“Neurosis”, Project Gallery V, New York NY (2022)

“Dear Diary”, Deco Art, Oakland CA (2022)

“Out There”, 33arts, Santa Rosa CA (2019)

“Anatomy of Autonomy”, Qulture Collective, Oakland CA (2018)