Inman Gallery is pleased to present, I have decided not to be hungry, a solo exhibition of new work by Angela Fraleigh, on view September 12–October 31, 2026. Please join us for an opening reception on Friday, September 11 from 6:00–8:00pm. An artist talk between Fraleigh and Michelle White, Senior Curator at the Menil Collection, will take place on Saturday, September 12 at 1:00pm.
I have decided not to be hungry presents a suite of new paintings Angela Fraleigh completed during her 2026 residency at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas. These works enter the charged terrain of the feral feminine, unleashing a cast of unruly figures animated by desire, instinct, and an irrepressible appetite. Maenads, witches, and animals emerge and recede through lush layers of paint, carrying an energy that shifts between ecstatic, intimate, violent, and tender. Fire runs through the work not only as an element, but as a condition: flame, fever, intensity, slow burn, illumination, and the heat through which one thing becomes another. Guided by a logic closer to ritual than narrative, Fraleigh approaches painting as a form of alchemy, allowing images to collide, dissolve, and transmute.
Drawing partly from the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Menil Collection, fragments of art history become material to be summoned, disrupted, and recast within Fraleigh’s practice. The resulting works operate like spells themselves: lush and volatile, I have decided not to be hungry asks what becomes possible when the familiar slips its boundaries and something wild emerges.
This exhibition is on view concurrently with WITNESS, featuring work by Ailbhe Ní Bhriain, Ryan Driscoll, Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez, Angelica Raquel, and Didier William.
Angela Fraleigh holds an MFA from Yale University and a BFA from Boston University. She has created site-specific solo projects for the Edward Hopper House Museum, the Vanderbilt Mansion Museum, the Everson Museum of Art, the Delaware Art Museum, the Allentown Art Museum, and the Weatherspoon Art Museum. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art; and the Delaware Art Museum, among others. Her work is currently on view at the University of North Carolina, in Holding a Bright Untroubled Sky (2026). She has completed residencies at the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, Brooklyn, NY; the CORE Program, Houston, TX; and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE, among others. She works in both New York, NY, and Allentown, PA, where she is a Professor at Moravian University.
