Fashion 1995

25Edition of 25

In the early to mid-1990s, during his years in Los Angeles, William Quigley began moving away from pure abstraction in response to what he perceived as an increasingly conceptual art climate. While exhibiting with Manny Silverman Gallery and founding AB Gallery in 1994, he entered into a sustained dialogue between contemporary practice and historical precedent. Between 1994 and 1998, Quigley closely examined the work of Cézanne, Degas, Gauguin, Picasso, and Sargent, while also absorbing the formal clarity of Irving Penn and the atmospheric restraint of Deborah Turbeville. Blending these influences with abstraction and figuration, he developed a layered visual language that merged painterly gesture with references to art history and early fashion photography.

 His 1995 painting Fashion stands as a prime example of this synthesis—among the strongest works of the period—where historical quotation, photographic composition, and expressive surface coalesce into a confident and defining statement of his evolving practice.

Hand-signed artist-supervised archival museum-quality print. Limited edition of 25.