Grace Athena Flott (b. 1990) is a realist painter fascinated by the myth of normalcy and social constructions of health, beauty, and gender. Raised in white suburban America, Flott spent her youth striving toward normalcy in all its forms until she experienced a major biographical disruption that placed her body firmly outside of mainstream representation. Remixing Italian Renaissance iconography and surrealistic narratives, Flott’s lifelike figurative paintings and portraiture speak to the dynamics of representation through a feminist disability justice lens. Premised on the notion that our identities are formed with and against other bodies, Flott’s work invites the viewer into intimate light-filled spaces where her emotive subjects toy with a normative gaze.
Flott is a recipient of the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture Hope Corps Grant and was awarded First Place in Artistic Excellence by Southwest Arts Magazine. Her work is exhibited in solo and juried group exhibitions internationally including with Figure|Ground Gallery, Seattle; Museum of Modern European Art (MEAM), Barcelona; and Salmagundi Club, New York City. Her paintings have been published in Fine Art Connoisseur and Realism Today. She is a graduate of the University of Washington Juliette Aristides Classical Atelier. Flott lives and works in Seattle, WA.
Flott’s solo exhibition New Icons is on view at the Port of Seattle December 1st, 2023 to February 29th, 2024.
Grace Athena Flott CV here.
