MY YEAR AT HOME

SOLO EXHIBITION
JUNE 20-29, 2025

OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 7-9PM

A SPECIAL PRESENTATION OF ABBEY GOLDEN’S LATEST BODY OF WORK

“Painting My Year at Home was a way to transcend the moral obligations of everyday life. The discovery that creating life doesn’t give meaning to your own. But mostly I wanted to show women tortured by the contradictory nature of social expectations." —Abbey Golden, 2025

The Middle Room is proud to present My Year at Home, a solo exhibit of a new painting series by LA-based artist Abbey Golden. The limited engagement exhibition will be on view from June 20 - 29, 2025. An opening reception will be held on Friday, June 20, from 7-9pm.

My Year at Home is a series of new paintings reflecting a year of inward focus, isolation, and transformation—offering viewers a poignant and tactile portrait of domestic life reimagined. Known for her tender, evocative explorations of intimacy, embodiment, and memory, Abbey Golden’s new paintings continue her deep investigation into the human experience, now with a maternal lens. Through lush, undulating forms and rich, surreal palettes, Golden’s paintings capture moments of vulnerability and connection, blurring the boundaries between self and environment. Each piece invites the viewer into a private world shaped by longing, resilience, and the complicated comfort of home. The characters represented in this series are ethereal, but also show signs of apathy, paranoia, and resignation. The soft, curled up body can be at times peaceful and defensive. Golden’s use of exaggerated, embracing figures creates a language of emotional realism, offering a space where tenderness and complexity coexist. Her paintings, often layered with symbolic textures and dreamlike spaces, invite a deeply personal yet universal contemplation of how we inhabit our worlds and ourselves.

Abbey Golden lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. Blending classical technique with contemporary cool, Golden creates and excavates a personal mythology and captures fleeting moments through color, light and form—making the ephemeral eternal. Embodying a vibrant interplay of color and emotion, her distinct palette is characterized by sun-drenched pastels and unexpected color combinations. The surreal quality of her figures, mostly female, emphasizes the whimsical yet earnest nature of what it means to inhabit a body. Through cartoonish facial expressions and flabby flesh, Golden’s subjects seem forced to reckon with their own flawed humanity. Her deliberate simplification of place creates a sense of ambiguity, inviting the viewer to “complete the story” and speculate about its narrative context. Family dynamics, Jewish heritage, and queer identity influence her choices in using certain patterns to evoke cultural or emotional resonance. She earned her a BFA in Fine Art and Art History from University of Arizona, was trained in traditional oil painting at Florence Academy of the Arts, and studied at FIT in New York and OTIS College of Art and Design in Los Angeles.

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