Abbey Golden (B. NY, 1986) is an LA based artist that blends classical technique with contemporary cool. Within her work, Golden aims to capture fleeting moments through color, light and form.

Her distinct palette is characterized by sun-drenched pastels and unexpected color combinations. Her delicately rendered figures are both whimsical and earnest in their depiction of what it means to inhabit a body.

Golden cultivates the surreal in her paintings, creating emotional moments that feel like a fabricated memory or dream. Her familiar yet uncanny images depict worlds that blend fiction and reality, transcending time and space.

Pulling inspiration from her Jewish heritage, queer identity, female socialization and the ephemerality of nature, Golden’s subjects seem forced to reckon with their own flawed humanity. Her deliberate simplification of place creates a sense of ambiguity, inviting the viewer to “complete the story” and speculate about its narrative context.

Golden received a BFA in Fine Art and Art History at the University of Arizona. She was trained in traditional oil painting techniques at Florence Academy of the Arts in 2006. She’s taken additional courses at FIT in New York and OTIS College of Art and Design in Los Angeles. Showing and selling paintings since a teenager, her work can be found in collections all over the world.

She is certified in safe studio practices and works exclusively in solvent-free, eco-friendly methods.