Ride a yellow horse
Medium
Original — Acrylic on Wooden Panel
Price
$762 USD
Artist
Alice Carr
Publisher
Partnership Editions
Dimensions
40 x 30.5 x 2 cm
Curator's Note
“In Ride a Yellow Horse (2026), Alice Carr distils her ongoing preoccupation with the cowboy as a vehicle for self-mythology into a single, charged image. A lone rider, face shadowed beneath the brim of an outsized hat, gallops across a burgundy void on a horse rendered in glowing ochres and warm peach — its body elongated, its expression knowingly sly. Carr's deliberately flattened forms and folk-modernist palette recall the lineage of Marsden Hartley and Paula Rego, yet the painting's emotional register is wholly her own: at once absurd and melancholic, swaggering and quietly vulnerable. The cowboy, as ever in Carr's work, stands in for the artist herself — a romanticised nomad, half in love with her own solitude, riding hard into nowhere in particular.”
About the Artist
Alice is a British-Australian Artist based in Edinburgh. Her figurative works explore the ideas of female loneliness, the boundaries between human and animal, and finding identity in an alienating world. Using bold colours and distorted forms, Alice works from imagination to create a sense of the absurd and a particular kind of playfulness, with the figure of the cowboy often used as a stand-in for herself.
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