Thomas Agrinier (b. 1976) in Lyon, France and living and working in Paris, Thomas is a self-taught painter whose work touches on many subjects including subjective vision, the body in motion, the complexity of human experience, and themes from art history. His practice reinvigorates the tradition of figurative painting with depictions of action, as a way to represent the inherent instability of life. In contrast to much figurative painting that conveys figures at stasis, frozen in the space and time of the painting, Agrinier’s work pursues a figurative painting that makes the viewer feel their own flesh more viscerally, and thus that represents life itself more fully. His paintings seek to connect the body and the mind by depicting figures as living and constantly in metamorphosis, and often evoke a sense of risk, joy, and play, where the viewer is pulled into a mysterious and highly-charged unfolding narrative.