ABIGAIL DUDLEY AND MIKO VELDKAMP
UNTITLED ART HOUSTON
18 – 21 SEPTEMBER, 2025
G.R. BROWN CONVENTION CENTER
HOUSTON, TEXAS
Alice Amati is pleased to propose a dialogue between the work of Abigail Dudley (b.1996) and Miko Veldkamp (b.1982), two artists who are able to singularly and acutely translate the observation of their surroundings and their lived experience onto canvas.
Veldkamp and Dudley explore the fluidity of identity, memory, and belonging through the creation of dreamlike worlds that blur the boundaries of time, place, and self. Both artists, as non-white painters working within a historically Eurocentric medium, engage figuration as a site of reclamation — where presence, visibility, and
hybridity take shape on their own terms.
Dudley’s compositions transform everyday interiors into imaginative mosaics of shifting lights and colours. Figures fade in and out of their surroundings, merging with objects and architecture in a way that reflects the layered, nonlinear nature of memory. Her approach to representation resists a one-dimensional reading, embracing the
interplay between the seen and the imagined.
Similarly, Veldkamp’s paintings navigate the complexities of diasporic identity, weaving together Surinamese, Dutch, and Javanese influences into fragmented spaces and shape-shifting pseudo self-portraits. His figures exist in states of transition — mirrored, duplicated, or dissolving into their environments — questioning the constructed
nature of belonging, in cultural and personal terms.
